Cartimandua's Capital? The late Iron Age royal site at Stanwick, North Yorkshire, fieldwork and analysis 1981-2011

The fortified late Iron Age royal site at Stanwick, North Yorkshire, first excavated by Sir Mortimer Wheeler in the 1950s, has long been recognised as being of international importance. A major programme of research carried out during the 1980s and 1990s encompassed not only survey and excavations within the Stanwick fortifications but also at other Iron Age sites in the environs. The core of the monograph is a report on the large-scale excavation in the Tofts at the heart of the oppidum, which brought to light spectacular new structural and material evidence for Brigantian society on the eve of the Roman Conquest of northern England in the late first century AD. The opportunity is now taken to bring together all the relevant work, including new dating evidence and a reappraisal of some material first published elsewhere.

The results of the excavations in the Tofts and other sites at Stanwick are complemented by detailed reports on the material and environmental remains, followed by an account of the fieldwork undertaken in the environs. The concluding synthesis sets the Stanwick complex in its broader regional, national and international context, and offers a new archaeological and historical perspective on both the site itself and the changing character of later Iron Age society in central Britain and its social and political relations with the expanding Roman world before and after the Claudian invasion of Britain.

位于北约克郡斯坦威克的设防铁器时代晚期王室遗址，最早由莫蒂默·惠勒爵士于1950年代开展发掘工作，长期以来被公认为具有国际级重要价值。1980至1990年代实施的重大研究计划，不仅涵盖了斯坦威克防御工事内部的考古调查与发掘，还覆盖了周边区域的其他铁器时代遗址。本考古专著的核心内容，是针对要塞城镇(oppidum)核心区域托夫茨的大规模发掘报告——该发掘出土了极具价值的全新结构与实物遗存，为公元1世纪末英格兰北部罗马征服前夕的布里甘特人社会提供了关键实证。此次整理工作汇集了所有相关研究成果，包括新的年代学证据，以及对此前已在其他刊物发表的部分遗物的重新评估。

本次对托夫茨及斯坦威克其他遗址的发掘成果，辅以针对人工遗物与环境遗存的详细研究报告，随后是对周边区域野外工作的完整记述。总结性综合研究部分将斯坦威克遗址群置于更广阔的区域、国家乃至国际语境之中，并为该遗址本身，以及不列颠中部铁器时代晚期社会的演变特征，及其在克劳狄入侵不列颠前后与扩张中的罗马世界的社会政治关系，提供了全新的考古学与历史学视角。