Data

The Map of Roman Britain currently amalgamates data from the following sources:

 


 

The Secret History of the Roman Roads of Britain

Citation
Bishop, M. C., The Secret History of the Roman Roads of Britain, http://romanroadsinbritain.info
Data
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Publications
Bishop, M. C., The Secret History of the Roman Roads of Britain (Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2014)

 


 

Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire

Citation
Åhlfeldt, J., Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire, https://dh.gu.se/dare (prior address https://imperium.ahlfeldt.se)
Data
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Publications

Åhlfeldt, J., RDG Update: The Roman Empire Vector Map Project, Pelagios blog, 7 September 2017, archived at Internet Archive

Åhlfeldt, J., Building the Roman Empire Vector Tile Map, Pelagios blog, 15 November 2017, archived at Internet Archive

 


 

The Rural Settlement of Roman Britain

Citation
Allen, M., Blick, N., Brindle, T., Evans, T., Fulford, M., Holbrook, N., Lodwick, L., Richards, J. D., and Smith, A., The Rural Settlement of Roman Britain: an Online Resource (2015, updated 2018), https://doi.org/10.5284/1030449
Data
Licence
Publications

Holbrook, N. and Morton, R., Assessing The Research Potential of Grey Literature in the Study of Roman England (2008, updated 2011), https://doi.org/10.5284/1000418

Smith, A., Allen, M., Brindle, T., and Fulford, M., The Rural Settlement of Roman Britain (London: Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 2016), https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/issue.xhtml?recordId=1161495&recordType=MonographSeries

Allen, M., Lodwick, L., Brindle, T., Fulford, M., Smith, A., The Rural Economy of Roman Britain (London: Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 2017), https://doi.org/10.5284/1090307

Smith, A., Allen, M., Brindle, T., Fulford, M., Lodwick, L., and Rohnbogner, A., Life and Death in the Countryside of Roman Britain (London: Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 2018), https://doi.org/10.5284/1090306

Data classification

Sites are classified using ‘major’ and ‘minor’ types.

Major site type
Minor site type
Rural settlement
farmstead, villa, agricultural building, isolated building, hillfort, cave
Rural landscape
field system
Industry
pottery production, tile production, quarry, iron production, other metal production, mill, other industry
Nucleated settlement
roadside settlement, village, oppidum
Religious, ritual and funerary
Romano-Celtic temple, shrine, funerary site
Military
fort, vicus, other military
Communications
road, jetty/bridge, mansio, port