The Rural Settlement of Roman Britain: an online resource

This resource brings together the excavated evidence for the rural settlement of Roman Britain with the over-arching aim to inform a comprehensive reassessment of the countryside of Roman Britain. It includes both traditionally published reports and 'grey literature' reports from developer-funded excavations since 1990. The project arose from pilot projects undertaken by Cotswold Archaeology and funded by English Heritage and it began in 2012. It is funded by grants from the Leverhulme Trust to the Universities of Reading and York (ADS) and from English Heritage/Historic England to Cotswold Archaeology. Phase 1 (April 2015) publishes the settlement evidence from Roman England. Subsequent phases will add Roman Wales (by December 2015) and the related finds, environmental and burial data (by 1st April 2017). These will be used alongside the specific site data in a series of integrative studies on rural settlement, economy, people and ritual to be published by the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies as Britannia Monographs between 2016 and 2018.
Roman England includes some 3,482 reports, the vast majority of which were produced since the implementation of PPG 16 in 1990. However the project has reached back and includes some sites published as early as 1808. Each site is described with bibliographic entries, as well as information on chronology, settlement type and morphological form. The project has not included all investigations, such as watching briefs and small-scale evaluations producing Roman evidence, but has limited its scope to those that have yielded plan, chronology and quantified finds data susceptible of characterisation and synthesis. The cut-off for inclusion here is publication before 31st December 2014.

本数据集汇集了不列颠罗马时期乡村聚落的出土遗存证据，核心宗旨是为全面重新评估不列颠罗马时期的乡村景观提供坚实支撑。其收录范围涵盖1990年以来传统正式出版的考古报告，以及由开发商资助的发掘项目所产出的灰色文献（grey literature）报告。本项目起源于科茨沃尔德考古学会（Cotswold Archaeology）开展、英国遗产委员会（English Heritage）资助的试点项目，于2012年正式启动。项目资助方包括：利弗休姆信托基金（Leverhulme Trust）向雷丁大学与约克大学（ADS）提供的拨款，以及英国遗产委员会/英国历史古迹委员会（English Heritage/Historic England）向科茨沃尔德考古学会提供的拨款。第一阶段（2015年4月）已发布不列颠罗马时期英格兰区域的聚落遗存证据。后续阶段将分别于2015年12月前补充不列颠罗马时期威尔士区域的相关内容，并于2017年4月1日前补充相关出土遗物、环境与墓葬数据。上述数据集将与各遗址专项数据结合，用于开展一系列关于乡村聚落、经济、社会与仪式的综合研究，相关成果将于2016至2018年间由罗马研究促进会（Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies）以《不列颠》专刊（Britannia Monographs）的形式出版。

不列颠罗马时期英格兰区域的数据集共收录约3482份报告，其中绝大多数是1990年《规划政策指南16》（PPG 16）实施后产出的报告。但本项目亦回溯收录了部分最早可追溯至1808年出版的遗址考古资料。每份遗址记录均包含参考文献条目，以及遗址年代序列、聚落类型与形态特征相关信息。本项目并未涵盖所有考古调查项目——例如仅产出罗马时期遗存证据的考古监察简报与小型勘探评估报告——而是将收录范围限定为能够提供遗址平面图、年代序列与可用于特征分析与综合研究的量化出土遗物数据的调查项目。本次收录的截止时间为2014年12月31日前已正式出版的资料。