Bath : : a study of settlement around the sacred hot springs from the Mesolithic to the 17th century AD : an archaeological assessment / / Emily La Trobe-Bateman and Rosalind Niblett.

• VerfasserIn: La Trobe-Bateman, Emily,; Niblett, Rosalind,
• TeilnehmendeR: Niblett, Rosalind,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford ;, Philadelphia : : Oxbow Books,, [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 224 pages) :; illustrations, maps

For centuries, the remains of the great Roman-British bathing and temple complex in the center of Bath have attracted the interest and imagination of countless visitors to the city. But there is more to the archaeology of Bath than its Roman monuments. Human settlement here has spanned ten millennia...

Table of Contents

• PART 1. Background and historical overview
• The purpose and scope of this study
• The topography of Bath and the surrounding area
• The history of archaeological research in Bath
• The nature of the evidence
• PART 2. THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE. Early prehistoric period (8500-1000 BC)
• The Late Bronze Age and Iron Age (1000 BC-AD 43)
• The Romano-British period (1st-4th centuries)
• The post-Roman period (5th-mid-7th centuries)
• Saxon Bath (late 7th-late 11th centuries)
• The medieval period
• Bath in the 17th century
• PART 3. SYNTHESIS AND ASSESSMENT. Introduction
• The current state of knowledge and understanding
• Assessment of importance and potential : a research agenda
• Period-based research issues
• Thematic research issues.