Abstract

The Landscape of Ron1an Britain: A Review Michael Fulford Although 'landscape archaeology' has become a landscapes of Roman Britain remains enormous. At one level we can work towards a mapping of the familiar part of our vocabulary, there has not yet landscape which moves beyond the achievements of been a systematic study of the landscape of Roman the Ordnance Survey in its map of Roman Britain Britain. Such information that we do have is based and its emphasis on settlement and lines of on four kinds of research. First, there is the communication (1978). Already there have been palynological-based study of regional vegetational history which is usually derived from long, C14 major advances in the mapping of individual settlements using aerial photography and the dated sequences from peat-bogs and is biased evidence of standing earthworks. The recent plans of towards the north, west and wetlands of Britain the towns of Verulamium (Niblett 1987), Wroxeter (e.g.Clack 1982; Wilson 1983). Second, there is the information which is derived from archaeological, (Webster 1989; Wilson 1984) and Water Newton site-based environmental research programmes (Mackreth 1979) or the Roman fort of Housesteads (e.g. Lambrick & Robinson 1979; Miles 1986). This and its environs (RCHME,