Malcolm Todd is an archaeologist and ancient historian. He has held chairs in the universities of Exeter and Durham, Visiting Fellowships at All Souls College and Brasenose College, Oxford, and a Senior Research Fellowship of the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust. He is the author of books on the Roman West and the early Germanic peoples, including The Early Germans (second edition, Blackwell, 2004), Migrants and Invaders (2001) and Roman Britain (third edition, Blackwell, 1999). He retired as Principal of Trevelyan College, Durham, in 2000.

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• List of Figures ixList of Contributors xiiiAbbreviations xvIntroduction xviiMalcolm Todd1 Britain and the Continent: Networks of Interaction 1Barry Cunliffe2 Society and Polity in Late Iron Age Britain 12Colin Haselgrove3 The Native Elite and their Funerary Practices from the First Century BC to Nero 30Rosalind Niblett4 The Claudian Conquest and its Consequences 42Malcolm Todd5 The Conquest of Wales 60William Manning6 The Roman Penetration of the North in the Late First Century AD 75Gordon Maxwell7 Soldier and Civilian in Wales 91Jeffrey Davies8 The Northern Frontier of Britain from Trajan to Antoninus Pius: Roman Builders and Native Britons 114James Crow9 Scotland and the Northern Frontier: Second to Fourth Centuries AD 136W. S. Hanson10 Cities and Urban Life 162Michael J. Jones11 Gallo-British Deities and their Shrines 193Miranda Aldhouse-Green12 Roman Religion and Roman Culture in Britain 220Martin Henig13 The Human Population: Health and Disease 242Charlotte Roberts and Margaret Cox14 The Family in Roman Britain 273Lindsay Allason-Jones15 Personal Ornament 288Alexandra Croom16 Textiles and Dress 299John Peter Wild17 Economic Structures 309Michael Fulford18 Rural Settlement in Northern Britain 327Richard Hingley19 Rural Settlement in Southern Britain: A Regional Survey 349Anthony King20 Domestic Animals and their Uses 371Annie Grant21 The Army in Late Roman Britain 393Pat Southern22 Britain in the Fourth Century 409Simon Esmonde Cleary23 The Final Phase 428Ian Wood24 The Rediscovery of Roman Britain 443Malcolm ToddBibliography 460Index 499