Change of date - Zoom talk by Prof. Martin Millett on Aldborough Roman town, Yorkshire

Date: 
Monday, 6 December, 2021 - 19:30

The village of Aldborough near Boroughbridge in North Yorkshire is the site of Isurium Brigantum, once one of the most important towns in Roman Britain and the ‘capital’ of the Romanised Brigantes, the largest tribe in Britain at that time. 

Professor Martin Millett, Cambridge University, together with Rose Ferraby, has led the Aldborough Roman Town Project since 2009. The resulting large scale geophysical survey has uncovered a pattern of planning, with major hillside terracing and grand houses with sophisticated design and decoration, suggesting a place of more significance and interest with a distinctive character of its own than had previously been thought.  Martin has recently published, with Rose Ferraby, a small English Heritage book on Isurium Brigantum.

Professor Millett will elaborate on the project and its aim to better understand Isurium Brigantum's origins, development and its role in the social, political and economic scene of Roman Britain.

Members of RSG will be sent a Zoom link the week before the meeting. If you would like to attend this talk, and are a member of SyAS but not yet a member of Roman Studies Group, you can join for a year for £5.

You can either join online  at https://www.surreyarchaeology.org.uk/membership/join/RSG or by post (details and downloadable form on the RSG home page https://www.surreyarchaeology.org.uk/content/roman-studies-group

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