This book deals thematically with an extensive range of building types, from country villas and urban basilicas to bridges and lighthouses. It covers construction techniques, including interior decoration and features; military buildings, including frontier works, Hadrian's Wall, and the Antonine Wall; public buildings, including market buildings, inns, and monumental arches; sacred sites, including Romano-Celtic temples, Mithraea, and rural shrines; and much more. The appendices deal with orthographic projections, inscriptions, recommended sites, and Romano-British history.
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The Buildings of Roman Britain a good book for a student of history,
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The book came promply and it was as discribed. The pictures in the book help with understanding of what is written.
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Fabulous! Takes a few risks, but really brings history alive,
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This is one of the most extraordinary history/archaeology books I've ever encountered. It is packed full of historical details, maps, and reconstructions of Roman buildings, almost all of which are now (in Britain) nothing but foundations. Further, the text is written in an intelligent but light-hearted style, making it highly accessible to non-specialists. The only, very minor, negative is that a couple of the drawings/paintings of the derelict Roman remains seem to show "gravity defying" stones, and don't seem to correspond to all the known facts. Nonetheless, that's absolute nitpicking, in what is a magnificent achievement of a book.
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