Photos by Peter Steele (RAS delegate) Jerash is a city in Jordan, north of the capital Amman. Inhabited since the Bronze Age, it’s known for the ruins of the walled Greco-Roman settlement of Gerasa just outside the modern city. These include the 2nd-century Hadrian’s Arch, the Corinthian columns of the Temple of Artemis and the…
by Wilson, A. 2010. Oxford: Archaeopress 164 pages To those who have had a baptism in the fiery waters of the Romanisation debate, the title of this British Archaeological Record volume might solicit intrinsic feelings of panic and may well result in choice profanities being flung towards whichever scholar’s modelled approach that you disagree with…
by Michael King Macdona In the 2006 edition of the Hadrianic Society Bulletin, Fleur Kemmers drew attention to numismatic and other evidence suggesting that a chain of auxiliary forts along the Lower Rhine, previously thought to have been established in AD 47, had been constructed in the latter stages of the reign of the emperor…
By Professor David Breeze The seed that grew into the Roman Army School was sown nearly 60 years ago. In 1962, I went up to Durham to read history and by chance my first tutor was Eric Birley then Professor Archaeology. He mentioned that the university was running an archaeological field school the following summer….