Roman Britain

In addition to the usual primary sources quoted by historians there is a considerable amount of information about the Roman presence in Britain to be derived from inscriptions, - and not just the monumental sort. Epigraphy really includes any written record of the period, whether on stone, metal, tile and brick, leather and wooden tablets etc., all these sources provide scholars with important clues and are generally held to be more factual than the accounts of contemporary writers. The Roman Inscriptions of Britain by R G Collingwood and R P Wright, now extensively revised and published in several parts, remains the definitive work and is listed in a section of it's own below.

The annual issues of the journal Britannia also contain notices of newly discovered inscriptions and revised interpretations of old ones.
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Hope V M, 1997, ...Words and Pictures: the Interpretation of Romano-British Tombstones, Britannia xxviii 245-258

Adams J N, 1992, ...British Latin: The Text, Interpretation and Language of the Bath Curse Tablets, Britannia xxiii 1-26

Tomlin R S O, 1992, ...The Twentieth Legion at Wroxeter and Carlisle in the First Century: The Epigraphic Evidence Britannia xxiii 141-158

Keppie L J F, 1991, Understanding Roman Inscriptions, Batsford, (Pp 160, 101 ills, + bib + index ISBN 0713456922)

Blagg T F C, 1990, ...Architectural Munificence in Britain: The Evidence of Inscriptions, Britannia xxi 13-31

Rhodes M, 1987, ...Inscriptions on Leather Waste from Roman London, Britannia xviii 173-182

Greenstock M C (ed),1971, Some Inscriptions from Roman Britain ( 2nd ed) [intended as a companion volume to Shepperd Frere's Britannia], London Association of Classical Teachers, (Pp 106 + xxv, 2 maps + bib + index)

Burn A R, 1969, The Romans in Britain: An Anthology of Inscriptions with translations and a running commentary (2nd ed), Blackwell, (Pp xiii + 193, [7] leaves of plates, ills, + bib + index ISBN 0631114009)

Mann J C (ed), 1969, The Northern Frontier in Britain from Hadrian to Honorius: Literary and Epigraphic Sources , Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle upon Tyne.(Pp 41 ISBN 0902157000)

Collingwood R, 1926, Roman Inscriptions and Sculptures belonging to the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne , Newcastle, (76pp + 8 b/w pls)

The Roman Inscriptions of Britain by R G Collingwood and R P Wright
Sutton Publishing

1995
Vol.1 Inscriptions on stone ( 2nd ed)
(Pp xxxiii + 844, 19 p. of plates, ills +bib + index ISBN 075090917x)
[First edition published by Clarendon Press (1965)]

1983 [1995?]
Vol.1 Inscriptions on stone. Epigraphic indexes compiled by Roger Goodburn and Helen Waugh
(Pp xvi + 109 ISBN 0862990262}

Vol.2 Instrumentum domesticum

Fascicule 1 (1990)
The military diplomata; metal ingots; tesserae; dies; labels and lead sealings (RIB 2401-2411) edited by S. S. Frere, Margaret Roxan and R. S. O. Tomlin
(Pp xiv + 126, 8 p. of plates, ills + bib ISBN 0862997755)

Fascicule 2 (1991)
Weights, gold vessel, silver vessels, bronze vessels, lead vessels, pewter vessels, shale vessels, glass vessels, spoons. (RIB 2412-2420) edited by S. S. Frere and R. S. O. Tomlin
(Pp xiii + 146, 16 p. of plates, ills, ISBN 0862998204)

Fascicule 3 (1991)
Brooches, rings, gems ... etc. (RIB 2421-2441) edited by S.S. Frere and R. S. O. Tomlin
(Pp xiii + 176, 16 p. of plates, ills, + bib ISBN 0862999359)

Fascicule 4 (1993)
Wooden barrels ... etc. (RIB 2442-2480) edited by S.S. Frere and R.S.O. Tomlin
(Pp xiii + 210, 8 p. of plates, ills, + bib ISBN 0750900865)

Fascicule 5 (1993)
Tile-stamps of the Classis Britannica; imperial, procuratorial and civic tile-stamps; stamps of private tilers; inscriptions on relief-patterned tiles and graffiti on tiles (RIB 2481-2491) edited by S.S. Frere and R.S.O. Tomlin
(Pp xiii + 162, 8 p. of plates, ills, + bib + site index ISBN 0750903198)

Fascicule 6 (1994)
Dipinti and graffiti on amphorae, dipinti and graffiti on mortaria, inscriptions in white barbotine, dipinti on coarse pottery, Samian barbotine or moulded inscriptions (RIB 2492-2500) edited by S.S. Frere and R.S.O. Tomlin ; with contributions by M.W.C. Hassall
(Pp xiii + 102, 8 p. of plates, ills, + bib + site index ISBN 0750905360)

Fascicule 7 (1995)
Graffiti on Samian Ware (terra sigillata) (RIB 2501) edited by S.S. Frere and R.S.O. Tomlin ; with contributions by M.W.C. Hassall
(Pp xi +152, 8 p. of plates, ills, map, + bib + site index ISBN 0750907436)

Fascicule 8 (1995)
Graffiti on coarse pottery cut before and after firing, stamp on coarse pottery. Addenda and corrigenda to Fascicules 1-8 (RIB 2502-2505) edited by S.S. Frere and R.S.O. Tomlin ; with contributions by M.W.C. Hassall
(Pp xiii + 165, 8 p. of plates, ills, + bib + index ISBN 0750909161)

[Epigraphic Indexes] (1995)
Combined epigraphic indexes and concordance with major printed sources compiled by S.S. Frere
(Pp x + 93, ISBN 0750909188)

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