The Roman Finds Group Autumn Meeting - 09-10/09/2016, Reading (England)

The conference comprises five sessions of papers with eighteen talks covering various aspects of finds from the town and country in southern Britain and is an excellent opportunity to hear about recent finds and research in this region. As well as sessions on Research at Reading, London and Urban and Rural Britain, a quick-fire session entitled ‘Small Finds, Short Papers’ including five ten minute talks will take place. Research posters covering a wide range of topics and an artefacts table with finds from the excavations at Silchester will also be displayed during all tea and coffee breaks. Registration will take place in the Archaeology Building’s atrium, so please confirm your attendance there first before making your way to the Ditchburn Theatre.

FECHA/DATE/DATA: 09-10/09/2016

LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Sorby Room, Wager Building, Whiteknights campus, University of Reading (Reading, England)

ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Victoria Keitel, Adam Sutton, Matt Fittock, Owen Humphreys, Sara Wilson (University of Reading)

INFO: web - RFGReading2016@gmail.com

INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: PDF BOOKING FORM

Todo incluido para miembros del RFG/ fully paid up RFG members/ RFG membri tutto compreso: £40

Estudiantes/ students/ studenti: £33

No miembros del RFG / non-members / non membri: £48

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£25 (por día/day rate/ tasso di giorno).

Cena / conference dinner / cena : 20£

PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:

09/09/2016

12.30 Registration (with tea and coffee) 13.00 Welcome

Session 1 – Research at the University of Reading Chair Adam Sutton (PhD Student, University of Reading) 13.10 Hella Eckardt (University of Reading), Writing power and identity: the material culture of literacy 13.40 Tom Brindle (The Roman Rural Settlement Project, University of Reading), Country life: results from the Roman Rural Settlement Project 14.10 Carolina Lima (PhD student, University of Reading), A girl’s best friend: the role of hairpins in defining female identity in Roman London 14.40 John Ford (PhD student, University of Reading), Ringing the changes: the social significance of finger-rings in Roman Britain

15.10 Tea, coffee and biscuits

Session 2 – Finds from Urban Southern Britain Chair Sara Wilson (PhD student, University of Reading) 15.40 Martin Pitts (University of Exeter), Funerary object-scapes in the Roman West 16.10 Ruth Shaffrey (Oxford Archaeology), Understanding urban flour supply: the contribution of millstones and querns Keynote Presentation 16.40 Nina Crummy (Freelance Small Finds Specialist/Silchester Town Life Project, University of Reading) and Matt Phelps (Institute of Archaeology, University College London), A hoard of military awards, jewellery and coins from Colchester

17.40 Closing remarks

Conference Dinner 18.45 Bill’s Restaurant, Saint Marys Church House, Chain St, Reading, RG1 2HX

10/09/2016

8.30 Registration 9.00 Welcome

Session 3 – Finds from Roman London Chair Victoria Keitel (PhD Student, University of Reading) 9.10 Mike Marshall (Museum of London Archaeology), A city of merchants and traders or a city of soldiers? The 1st century AD military equipment from Bloomberg London in context 9.40 Ben Paites (PAS, Essex), Roman city limits: finds from the Thames foreshore at the Tower of London 10.10 Glynn Davis (Colchester and Ipswich Museums), The tears of the Heliades: investigating amber from Roman London

10.40 Tea, coffee and biscuits

Session 4 – Finds from Rural Southern Britain Chair Matthew Fittock (PhD Student, University of Reading) 11.10 Diana Briscoe (Archive of Roman Pottery Stamps (ARPS)), Stamped pottery in Roman Britain 11.40 Stuart McKie (PhD Student, Open University), Embedded magic: the sensory experience of cursing at the Temple of Sulis Minerva at Bath 12.10 Richard Hobbs (The British Museum), New insights into the Mildenhall treasure 12.40 Sian Thomas (PhD Student, Cardiff University), Objects and their place in ritual performances at Nornour in the Isles of Scilly

13.10 Lunch with tea, coffee and biscuits

Session 5 – Small Finds, Short Papers Chair Carolina Lima (PhD Student, University of Reading) 14.20 Rachel Cubit (Museum of London Archaeology), Spoons, symbolism and survival. A new find from Roman London 14.30 Peter Warry (Independent Researcher), The evolution of roof tile in Southern Britain 14.40 Victoria Keitel (PhD Student, University of Reading), Small finds from Rockbourne Roman villa 14.50 Philip Smither (University of Reading Alumnus), Roman weighing instruments from Britain 15.00 Edwin Wood (PAS, Sussex), Portable Antiquities Scheme finds from Roman London with a focus on the Swan Lane area

Closing Talk 15.20 Hilary Cool (Barbican Research Associates), Approaches to writing finds reports; notes from Dr Cool’s casebook

16.20 Closing remarks and departure