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Considering “urban waterscapes” in Britain - ADAM ROGERS, WATER AND ROMAN URBANISM. TOWNS, WATERSCAPES, LAND TRANSFORMATION AND EXPERIENCE IN ROMAN BRITAIN (Mnemosyne Supplements vol. 355; Brill, Leiden 2013). Pp. xiii + 278, figs. 38. ISSN 8958-; ISBN 978-90-04-24787-1. $161. Also available as e-book.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 November 2014

Stephen Rippon
Stephen Rippon*
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University of Exeter, s.j.rippon@ex.ac.uk
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Journal of Roman Archaeology , Volume 27 , 2014 , pp. 739 - 740
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2 E.g., Meier, D., “From nature to culture: landscape and settlement history of the North Sea coast of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany,” in Thoen, E. et al. (edd.), Landscapes or seascapes? The history of the coastal environment in the North Sea area reconsidered (Gent 2013) 85–110 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Rippon, S., The transformation of coastal wetlands: exploitation and management of marshland landscapes in North West Europe during the Roman and medieval periods (Oxford 2000) 72–76 Google Scholar.

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6 E.g., Banwell Moor, Kenn Moor and Puxton Church Field on the North Somerset Levels: see Rippon, S., “The Romano-British exploitation of coastal wetlands: survey and excavation on the North Somerset Levels, 1993-7,” Britannia 31 (2000) 69–200 CrossRefGoogle Scholar; id., Landscape, community and colonisation: the North Somerset Levels during the 1st to 2nd millennia AD (York 2006).

7 The literature is summarised at Rippon (supra n.3) 84-90, which includes illustrations of the preserved remains and reconstructions of how they functioned.