Publisher's Synopsis
Taking in such important sites as Housesteads and Vindolanda, this volume completes the coverage of Hadrian's Wall begun in Fascicule 1. The concentrated presence of Roman soldiers, tradesman and their families over three centuries, and the availability of adequate stone, make the region the richest for sculpture finds in Britain, both in quantity and in the significance of individual pieces. The vast number of monuments include figures of gods in classical Mediterranean forms, depictions of exotic oriental deities, local Celtic figures, and the most impromptu graffiti cut on walls or quarry faces.;Readership: historians and archaeologists of Roman Britain; art historians.
