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