Abstract
ABSTRACTThe Canterbury Hinterland Project (CHP) has combined aerial photographic and LiDAR analysis, synthesis of HER and other data across east Kent with targeted survey south and east of Canterbury. We present possible hillforts, temples, large enclosures, a major trackway, linking paths, burials and high-status Roman-period complexes and argue that people organised the landscape to communicate meaning in two main ways: a ‘public’ face oriented towards the Dover–Canterbury road and expressions of ritual and remembrance for local groups. The character of this rural population has traditionally been understood in terms of its relationship to thecivitascapital and villas; we look beyond this to examine a more detailed vision of possible social interactions.
Highlights
Social structure and group identities are expressed in a variety of materially visible ways, including modification of the landscape, which perhaps receives less attention from Romanists than its scale, ubiquity, and scope for comparative study merit
Temples, large enclosures, a major trackway, linking paths, burials, and high-status Roman-period complexes and argue that people organized the landscape to communicate meaning in two main ways: a ‘public’ face oriented towards the Dover–Canterbury road and expressions of ritual and remembrance for local groups
Modern scholars tend to turn to the Roman ‘civitas capital’, Durovernum (Canterbury), in reconstructions of the tribal organization of Kent, assuming a key focus for Iron Age (IA) settlement there and/or a sanctuary which may have united multiple LPRIA groups.[2]
Summary
Social structure and group identities are expressed in a variety of materially visible ways, including modification of the landscape, which perhaps receives less attention from Romanists than its scale, ubiquity, and scope for comparative study merit.
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