Rural Settlement in Roman Yorkshire

Saturday 24 October 2015

– Joint conference sponsored by the Roman Antiquities Section (YAS) and The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies (The Roman Society).

Venue: The Milton Rooms, Market Square, Malton YO17 7LX.

Details on the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies Website: www.romansociety.org/archaeology/conferences.

Further information from: pandjwilson@btopenworld.com, tel: 01944 738282.

Tickets: £12, £10 for Roman Antiquities Section (RAS) and Roman Society members.

PROGRAMME

9.30am Coffee and Registration

10am Dr Martyn Allen – Rural settlement across Roman Yorkshire:
data syntheses from the Roman Rural Settlement project

10.30am Dr Clive Waddington – A neglected frontier: results from preliminary excavations on a high status settlement on the Brigantian-Roman frontier

11am Dr Peter Halkon – Roman impact on the landscape of the Foulness valley
and the western escarpment of the Yorkshire Wolds

11.30am Professor Martin Millett – Across Wold and Vale: new evidence for the dynamics of Roman rural settlement

12-1.30 Lunch

1.30pm Dr Steve Sherlock – The Landscape between Cataractonium and Scotch Corner

2pm Ian Roberts – The Other Side of the Vale: The Magnesian Limestone in the Later Iron Age and Roman Period

2.30pm Peter Denison-Edson and Philip Bastow – Romano-British settlement patterns in Swaledale: answers & questions, with particular reference to 4th-century material culture

3pm Coffee

3.30pm Mike Haken and Hugh Toller – Lines in the landscape: Roman roads and rural settlement

4pm Nansi Rosenberg – The Aiskew Roman villa (title to be confirmed)

4.30pm Discussion

5pm Conference ends