{"product_id":"9781803278438-life-death-in-roman-carlisle","title":"Life and Death in Roman Carlisle","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExcavations at 107-117 Botchergate, 2015\u003cbr\u003eFinds from a Roman cremation cemetery in Carlisle offer an important study of burials and identity in the region. Excavated graves, including rare richly furnished burials, reveal cultural ties to the Nervii of Gallia Belgica and suggest a Nervian presence in early Roman Carlisle linked to military recruitment and local pottery production.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLife and Death in Roman Carlisle \u003c\/em\u003emakes an important contribution to the study of burials and identity in the region of Hadrian’s Wall. The book presents the results of excavations beneath Cumbria House, a new municipal building on Botchergate in the city centre. In Roman times this was the location of part of a roadside cremation cemetery associated with a fort established by the Roman army in AD 73. Those buried in this part of the cemetery died in the years just prior to and during the building of Hadrian’s Wall, when \u003cem\u003eLuguvalium\u003c\/em\u003e was emerging as the most important Roman military base and largest urban centre in northwest Britain. As a result of this swift rise in profile, the early settlement-edge funerary enclosures quickly went out of use, being swallowed up and overbuilt by the expanding extramural settlement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEarly Roman Carlisle would have boasted a vibrant multicultural population, and this is reflected in its burial evidence. Among the remains of some twenty cremation burials excavated at Cumbria House are the two most richly furnished examples from northern Britain. While the large assemblages of ceramic grave goods are unlike those of any other burials in the military north, close parallels are known from the France\/Belgium border, in the former territory of the \u003cem\u003eNervii\u003c\/em\u003e. The Nervians were described by Julius Caesar as having the fiercest fighters of all the Gallic tribes and this area was a major source of recruitment for the Roman army. Most of the pottery vessels placed in the graves were produced locally, probably at kilns within Roman Carlisle, and thus must have been made to order by those familiar with both the burial rites and the ceramic repertoire of the Nervian region.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe presence of a community of Nervians living in \u003cem\u003eLuguvalium\u003c\/em\u003e in the early second century is a new discovery but fits well with previous arguments made about the possible replacement of the \u003cem\u003eAla Gallorum Sebosiana \u003c\/em\u003ewith another unit from \u003cem\u003eGallia Belgica\u003c\/em\u003e when the fort at \u003cem\u003eLuguvalium\u003c\/em\u003e was completely rebuilt around AD 105.  Meticulously referencing the relevant literature from Roman Britain and the Continent, the authors explore the significance of the new data for our understanding of the make-up of Roman Carlisle’s population and the identity of its various garrisons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55264293716342,"sku":"9781803278438","price":50.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_13456961_23315331_20250710092335.jpg?v=1752187419","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781803278438-life-death-in-roman-carlisle","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}