Romano-British buckles and nail cleaners from Norfolk and LIncolnshire

Principal investigator: Edward Parker
Level: Undergraduate

I am a student at the university of Exeter, and am working on an undergraduate dissertation. My dissertation involves investigating Romano-British buckles and nail cleaners from Norfolk and Lincolnshire to assess regional variation and the extent to which regional variation distribution patterns conform to civitas boundaries. Whereas civitas-based regional variation has been identified previously (including by Laycock (2012) for buckles and Eckhardt and Crummy (2003) for nail cleaners), I hope to investigate how far previously-identified patterns remain accurate. I also hope to look at these objects in a localised context and compare regional variation between the two object types. Doing so will, I hope, help reveal how far a 'civitas boundary' is observable between both object types, and whether previously identified boundaries for pottery and other object types like the Gipping-Lark valleys (Rippon, 2018), are relevant for metal buckles and nail cleaners.

Referee: Prof. Stephen Rippon (Exeter University)

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