by Kate Sharpe | Oct 18, 2018 | Ethnography, Roman, Uncategorised
So far, most of my fieldwork has taken me to heritage venues that seek to reconstruct Iron Age life. But this project is equally concerned with the period that followed – when large parts of the British Isles became governed by Rome, and when new people, new ideas,...
by Kate Sharpe | Sep 5, 2018 | Events, Roman, Uncategorised
The Limes Congress 2018 is in full swing in Serbia this week. Project PI, Richard Hingley, is presenting some of our project results on Sunday in a session entitled ‘Presenting the Roman Frontiers’, chaired by Nigel Mills and Christof Fluegelan. The paper...
by Kate Sharpe | Feb 21, 2018 | Ethnography, Iron Age, Uncategorised
The last few months have been a whirlwind of roundhouses for the ethnographic strand of the project, so here is a brief update on activities from Central Scotland to the South of England. My first trip into the Iron Age, last September, took me to the shore of Loch...
by Kate Sharpe | Apr 21, 2017 | Roman, Uncategorised
A couple of weeks ago the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC) came to Durham. In addition to the usual sessions, there were four on-site lectures by various specialists. I joined Coach D, heading for the Hadrian’s Wall forts of Housesteads (Vercovicium)...
