Roman Frontier Studies 2009: Proceedings of the XXI International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies (Limes Congress) held at Newcastle upon Tyne in August 2009 (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology)

The XXI International Congress of Roman Frontier studies was hosted by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums in Newcastle upon Tyne (Great Britain) in 2009, 60 years after the first Limeskongress organised in that city by Eric Birley in 1949. Sixty years on, delegates could reflect on how the Congress has grown and changed over six decades and could be heartened at the presence of so many young scholars and a variety of topics and avenues of research into the army and frontiers of the Roman empire that would not have been considered in 1949. Papers are organised into the same thematic sessions as in the actual conference: Women and Families in the Roman Army; Roman Roads; The Roman Frontier in Wales; The Eastern and North African Frontiers; Smaller Structures: towers and fortlets; Recognising Differences in Lifestyles through Material Culture; Barbaricum; Britain; Roman Frontiers in a Globalised World; Civil Settlements; Death and Commemoration; Danubian and Balkan Provinces; Camps; Logistics and Supply; The Germanies and Augustan and Tiberian Germany; Spain; Frontier Fleets. This wide-ranging collection of papers enriches the study of Roman frontiers in all their aspects.Table of ContentsForeword (David J Breeze)Introduction by the EditorsWomen and Families in the Roman Army (Session organisers: Carol van Driel-Murray, Martina Meyr, Colin Wells): Women, the Military and patria potestas in Roman Britain (Lindsay Allason-Jones)Beyond von Petrikovits – artefact distribution and socio-spatial practices in the Roman military (Penelope Allison)Some thoughts about the archaeological legacy of soldiers’ families in the countryside of the civitas Batavorum (Harry van Enckevort)The Families of Roman Auxiliary Soldiers in the Military Diplomas (Elizabeth M. Greene)British families in the Roman army: living on the fringes of the Roman world (Tatiana Ivleva)Women and Children in Military Inscriptions from northern Germania Superior (Michael J. Klein)The Empress and her Relationship to the Roman Army (Kai M. Töpfer)Women and children at the Saxon Shore fort of Oudenburg (Belgium) (S. Vanhoutte and A. Verbrugge)Roman Roads: Decem Pagi at the end of antiquity and the fate of the Roman road system in eastern Gaul (Joachim Henning, Michael McCormick and Thomas Fischer)The planning of Roman Dere Street, Hadrian’s Wall, and the Antonine Wall in Scotland (John Poulter)Some notes on the development of the military road network of the Roman Empire (Zsolt Visy)The Roman Frontier in Wales (Session organisers: Barry Burnham, Jeffrey Davies): Rewriting The Roman Frontier in Wales: an introduction (Barry C. Burnham and Jeffrey L. Davies)Recent work on the site of the legionary fortress at Caerleon (Peter Guest and Tim Young)Roman Roads in Wales (R. J. Silvester)The Cadw-grant-aided ‘Roman Fort Environs Project’ – the contribution of geophysics (David Hopewell)Roman Frontiers in Wales: 40 years on (Jeffrey L. Davies)The military ‘vici’ of Wales – progress since Jarrett 1969 (Barry C. Burnham)The Eastern and North African Frontiers (Session organisers: James Crow, Eberhard Sauer): Transformation patterns of Roman Forts in the Limes Arabicus from Severan to Tetrarchic and Justinianic periods (Ignacio Arce)Recent Research on the Anastasian Wall in Thrace and late antique linear barriers around the Black Sea (James Crow)New Research on the Roman Frontier in Arabia (S. Thomas Parker)The Archaeology of Sasanian Frontier Troops: Recent Fieldwork on Frontier Walls in Northern Iran (Hamid Omrani Rekavandi, Eberhard Sauer, Tony Wilkinson and Jebrael Nokandeh)Soldiers or Tribesmen: who guarded the frontiers of late Roman Africa? (Alan Rushworth)Roman-Armenian Borders, Part I: The Upper Euphrates Frontier (Everett L. Wheeler)Smaller Structures: towers and fortlets (Session organisers: Bill Hanson, Matt Symonds)Bauliche und funktionale Gliederung des Obergermanisch-Raetischen Limes anhand der Turmgrundrisse (Thomas Bec