Abstract

Thirteen papers from the annual TRAC conference, now in its ninth year. With a range of subject matters, they reflect the diversity of research being carried out. Contents: Creation of multiple identities in Roman Italica (Louise Revell); Illuminating Roman Britain (Hella Eckhardt); Finds assemblage at the Newstead Military Complex (Simon Clarke); Romanisation, status and the landscape (Garrick Fincham); Social organization within the Roman army (Andrew Pegler); Tabernae economics (Ardle Mac Mahon); Roman maritime activities around Britain (Michael Walsh); Cattle, culture, status and soldiers in northern England (Sue Stallibrass); Food, ritual and rubbish in the making of Pompeii (Marina Ciaraldi & Jane Richardson); Wood, masonry and the construction of identity (Dominic James); From periphery to core in the Late Antique Mauretania (Alan Rushworth); Application of GIS to the study of settlement patterns: Silchester (Devon Tully); Application of computer-based techniques to Iron Age and Roman settlement distribution in North-West Portugal.