A stimulating collection which has much to offer those interested in the interface between the classical world and the middle ages in the west. HISTORY Interesting group [of papers] and a useful contribution to the emerging debate about the nature of 5th- to 7th-century western Britain.

• Proto-industrialisation and the end of the Roman economy - K R DarkPalaeoecological evidence for landscape continuity and change in Britain ca A.D. 400-800 - S P DarkPottery and local production at the end of Roman Britain - K R DarkCargoes in trade along the western seaboard - The archaeological evidence for external contracts: imports, trade and economy in Celtic Britain A.D. 400-800 - Ewan N CampbellPost-Roman imports in Britain and Ireland: a maritime perspective - Ann BowmanSeasoned with salt: insular-gallic contacts in the early memorial stones and cross slabs - J K KnightPoundbury, Dorset: settlement and economy in late and post-Roman Dorchester - Christopher Sparey-Green

A stimulating collection which has much to offer those interested in the interface between the classical world and the middle ages in the west. HISTORY Interesting group [of papers] and a useful contribution to the emerging debate about the nature of 5th- to 7th-century western Britain.

• Proto-industrialisation and the end of the Roman economy - K R DarkPalaeoecological evidence for landscape continuity and change in Britain ca A.D. 400-800 - S P DarkPottery and local production at the end of Roman Britain - K R DarkCargoes in trade along the western seaboard - The archaeological evidence for external contracts: imports, trade and economy in Celtic Britain A.D. 400-800 - Ewan N CampbellPost-Roman imports in Britain and Ireland: a maritime perspective - Ann BowmanSeasoned with salt: insular-gallic contacts in the early memorial stones and cross slabs - J K KnightPoundbury, Dorset: settlement and economy in late and post-Roman Dorchester - Christopher Sparey-Green

A stimulating collection which has much to offer those interested in the interface between the classical world and the middle ages in the west. HISTORY Interesting group [of papers] and a useful contribution to the emerging debate about the nature of 5th- to 7th-century western Britain.

• Proto-industrialisation and the end of the Roman economy - K R DarkPalaeoecological evidence for landscape continuity and change in Britain ca A.D. 400-800 - S P DarkPottery and local production at the end of Roman Britain - K R DarkCargoes in trade along the western seaboard - The archaeological evidence for external contracts: imports, trade and economy in Celtic Britain A.D. 400-800 - Ewan N CampbellPost-Roman imports in Britain and Ireland: a maritime perspective - Ann BowmanSeasoned with salt: insular-gallic contacts in the early memorial stones and cross slabs - J K KnightPoundbury, Dorset: settlement and economy in late and post-Roman Dorchester - Christopher Sparey-Green