The Army in Britannia

The scholarship available on the Roman Army in Britannia.

General

• Breeze, D.J. & Dobson, B., Hadrian’s Wall, London, 2000.
• Holder, P.A., The Roman army in Britain, London, 1982.
• Millett, M., Revell, L. & Moore, A.J., The Oxford handbook of Roman Britain, Oxford, 2016, Ch. 22-23.

Further Reading

• Anderson, J.D., Roman military supply in North-East England: an analysis of and an alternative to the Piercebridge Formula, Oxford, 1992.
• Bidwell, P.T. & Bailey, D., The legionary bath-house and basilica and forum at Exeter, with a summary account of the legionary fortress, Exeter, 1979.
• Bidwell, P.T., Speak, S. & Brickstock, R.J., Excavations at South Shields Roman Fort: Vol.1, Newcastle, 1994.
• Birley, A., Garrison life at Vindolanda: a band of brothers, Stroud, 2002.
• Bishop, M.C., Handbook to Roman Legionary fortresses, Havertown, 2013.
• Bowman, A.K., Life and letters on the Roman frontier: Vindolanda and its people, London, 1994.
• Breeze, D.J., The Northern frontiers of Roman Britain, London, 1982.
• Breeze, D.J., Roman Scotland: frontier country, London, 1996.
• Breeze, D.J., The Antonine Wall: the north-west frontier of the Roman Wall : proposed as a World Heritage Site, Edinburgh, 2004.
• Breeze, D.J., The frontiers of Imperial Rome, Barnsley, 2011.
• Breeze, D.J., Bearsden: a Roman fort on the Antonine Wall, Edinburgh, 2016.
• Brewer, R.J., Roman fortresses and their legions: [papers in honour of George C. Boon], London, 2000.
• Collingwood Bruce, J., Handbook to the Roman Wall, 1966.
• Davies, R.W., ‘The Roman Military Diet’ in Britannia Vol.2, 1971, 122-142.
• Davies, J. L. & Jones, R. H., Roman Camps in Wales and the Marches, Cardiff, 2006.
• Hanson, W.S. & Maxwell, G., Rome’s north-west frontier: the Antonine Wall, Edinburgh, 1983.
• Hassall, M., ‘The internal planning of Roman auxiliary forts’ in Rome and her northern provinces: papers presented to Sheppard Frere in honour of his retirement from the Chair of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire, University of Oxford, 1983, Oxford, 1983, 96-131.
• Hingley, R., Hadrian’s Wall: a life, Oxford, 2012.
• Hodgson, N., Hadrian’s Wall: archaeology and history at the limit of Rome’s empire, Marlborough, 2017.
• Hunter, F. & Keppie, L.J.F (ed.) A Roman frontier post and its people: Newstead 1911-2011, Edinburgh, 2015.
• Johnson, A., Roman forts: of the 1st and 2nd centuries AD in Britain and the German provinces, London, 1983.
• Johnson, S., The Roman forts of the Saxon Shore, London, 1979.
• Johnson, S., Late Roman fortifications, London, 1983.
• Johnson, P. & Haynes, I., Architecture in Roman Britain, York, 1996.
• Jones, R.H., Roman camps in Scotland, Edinburgh, 2011.
• Jones, R.H., Roman camps in Britain, Stroud, 2012.
• Keppie, L.J.F, The making of the Roman army: from Republic to Empire, London, 1984.
• Keppie, L.J.F., The legacy of Rome: Scotland’s Roman remains, Edinburgh, 2004.
• Keppie, L.J.F., The antiquarian rediscovery of the Antonine Wall, Edinburgh, 2012.
• Maxfield, V.A. & Dobson, M.J., Roman frontier studies 1989: proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies, Exeter, 1991.
• Maxwell, G.S., A gathering of eagles: scenes from Roman Scotland, Edinburgh, 1998.
• Pearson, A., The construction of the Saxon Shore Forts, Oxford, 2003.
• Pitts, L.F. & St Joseph, J.K.S., Inchtuthil: the Roman legionary fortress : excavations, 1952-65, London, 1985.
• Rushworth, A. & Allason-Jones, L., Housesteads Roman Fort: the grandest station : excavation and survey at Housesteads, 1954-95, by Charles Daniels, John Gillam, James Crow, and others, Swindon, 2009.
• Southern, P., ‘Men and mountains, or geographical determination and the conquest of Scotland’ in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Vol.126, 1996, 371-386.
• Southern, P. & Dixon, K.R., The late Roman army, London, 1996.
• Welfare, H. & Swan, V., Roman camps in England: The field archaeology, London, 1995.
• Wilmott, T., Birdoswald: excavations of a Roman fort on Hadrian’s Wall and its successor settlements, 1987-92, London, 1997.