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Further Reading
 
There are vast numbers of publications available on Roman Britain. Below is a select bibliography, which should provide a good framework for further study.
 
In addition to these, the annual Journal Britannia provides a very useful update on current research in Roman Britain, while the Sussex Archaeological Collections (SAC) has the most relevant information for archaeological sites and objects in Sussex.
 
 General works on archaeology
 
Adkins, L & Adkins, R. 1998. The handbook of British archaeology. Constable.
 
Bahn, P. & Tidy, B. 2000. Archaeology. OUP, Oxford.
 
Fagan, B. (ed.) 1996 The Oxford companion to archaeology. OUP, Oxford.
 
Hunter, J. & Ralston, I. (eds.) 1999. The archaeology of Britain. Routledge, London.
 
Leslie, K. & Short, B. (eds.) 2000. An historical atlas of Sussex. Phillimore, Chichester.
 
Renfrew, C. & Bahn, P. 1996. Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice. 2nd edition. Thames and Hudson, London.
 
Taylor, T. et al. 2000. Time Team's Timechester. Channel 4 books.
 
 General works on Roman Britain
 
Alcock, J. 1996. Life in Roman Britain. Batsford, London
 
De la Bédoyère, G. 1989. The finds of Roman Britain. Batsford, London.
 
De la Bédoyère, G. 1991. The buildings of Roman Britain. Batsford, London.
 
Faulkener, N. 2000. The decline and Fall of Roman Britain. Tempus, Stroud.
 
Frere, S.S. 1987. Britannia: A history of Roman Britain (3rd ed.). Pimlico, London.
 
Ireland, S. 1986. Roman Britain: A source book. Crook Helm
 
Jones, B. & Mattingly, D. 1990. An Atlas of Roman Britain. Blackwells, Oxford.
 
Millett, M. 1990. The Romanization of Britain. CUP, Cambridge.
 
Millett, M. 1995. Roman Britain. Batsford, London.
 
Salway, P. 1984. Roman Britain. Oxford University Press.
 
 Iron Age
 
Cunliffe, B.W. 1973. The Regni. Duckworth
 
Cunliffe, B.W. 1991. Iron Age communities in Britain (3rd ed.). Routledge, London.
 
Creighton, J. 2000. Coins and Power in the Late Iron Age Britain, CUP, Cambridge.
 
Green, M.J. 1986. The gods of the Celts. Alan Sutton, Gloucester.
 
Green, M.J. (ed.). 1995. The Celtic World. Routledge, London.
 
Hill, J.D. 1995. Ritual and rubbish in the Iron Age of Wessex. BAR. series 242 Oxford.
 
 Roman
 
Invasion & Consolidation
 
Hind, J.G.F. 1989. 'The invasion of Britain in A.D. 43 - An alternative Strategy for Aulus Plautius', Britannia 20, 1-21.
 
Webster, G. 1993. The Roman invasion of Britain. Routledge, London.
 
Administration & Society
 
Allason-Jones, L. 1989. Women in Roman Britain. BM publications, London.
 
Birley, A. 1979. The People of Roman Britain. Batsford, London.
 
The Towns
 
Burnham, B. & Wacher, J. 1990 The Small Towns of Roman Britain Batsford. London.
 
De la Bédoyère, G. 1992. Roman towns in Britain. Batsford, London.
 
Down, A. 1988. Roman Chichester. Phillimore, Chichester.
 
Wacher, J. 1995. The towns of Roman Britain. Batsford, London.
 
The Countryside
 
Black, E.W. 1987. The Roman villas of South-East England. BAR 171, Oxford.
 
Cunliffe, B.W. 1998. Fishbourne Roman palace. Tempus, Stroud.
 
Dark, K. 1997. The landscape of Roman Britain. Sutton, Stroud
 
Hingley, R. 1989. Rural settlement in Roman Britain. Seaby, London.
 
Rudling, D. 1998. The development of Roman villas in Sussex. Sussex Archaeological Collections 136, pp.41-65.
 
Scott, E. 1993. A Gazetteer of Roman Villas in Britain. Leicester Archaeological Monographs 1, Leicester
 
Personal Life-style
 
Croom, A.T. 2000. Roman clothing and fashion. Tempus, Stroud
 
Jackson, R. 1988. Doctors and diseases in the Roman Empire. BM Press, London.
 
Food & Drink
 
Apicius, Cooking and Dining in Ancient Rome (Trans. J. Vehling), 1977.
 
Swan, V. 1988. Pottery in Roman Britain. Shire Archaeology, Aylesbury.
 
Entertainment
 
Grant, M. 1967. Gladiators. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London.
 
Rook, T. 1992. Roman baths in Britain. Shire Archaeology, Aylesbury.
 
Crafts & Industry
 
Cleere, H. & Crossley, D. 1985. The Iron industry of the Weald. Leicester University Press, Leicester.
 
McWhirr, A. 1982. Roman crafts and industries. Aylesbury.
 
Strong, D. & Brown, D. (eds.). 1976. Roman crafts. London.
 
Transport & Communication
 
Bowman, A.K. 1994 Life and letters on the Roman frontier : Vindolanda and its people. BM press, London.
 
Elsner, J. (ed.) 1996 Art and text in Roman culture. CUP, Cambridge.
 
Hodge, P. 1978. Roman trade and Travel. Longmans, London
 
Merchants & Money
 
Casey, P.J. 1994. Roman coinage in Britain. Shire Archaeology, Aylesbury.
 
Greene, K. 1986 The Archaeology of the Roman Economy. London.
 
Burial
 
Black, E.W. 1986. Romano-British Burial Customs and religious Beliefs in South East England. The Archaeological Journal 14, pp.201-239
 
Philpot, R. 1991. Burial practices in Roman Britain. BAR, Oxford.
 
Religion
 
Henig, M. 1984. Religion in Roman Britain. Batsford, London.
 
Lewis, M.J.T. 1966. Temples in Roman Britain, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
 
Rodwell, W.(ed.) 1980. Temples, Churches and Religion in Roman Britain. BAR 77 (i + ii), Oxford.
 
Woodward, A. 1992. Shrines and Sacrifice. Batsford, London.
 
The Military
 
Bidwell, P. 1997. Roman forts in Britain. Batsford, London.
 
Maxwell, V.A. 1989 The Saxon Shore, a handbook. University of Exeter.
 
Webster, G. 1985. The Roman Imperial Army (3rd Ed.). London.
 
 Life in Early Anglo-Saxon Sussex
 
Brandon, P. 1978. The South Saxons. Phillimore, Chichester.
 
Esmond-Cleary, A. S. 1989. The Ending of Roman Britain. Batsford, London.
 
Higham, N. 1992. Rome, Britain and the Anglo-Saxons. Seaby.
 
Hill, D. 1981. An Atlas of Anglo-Saxon England. Blackwells, Oxford.
 
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