Britons abroad : the mobility of Britons and the circulation of British-made objects in the Roman Empire

Ivleva, T.A. (2012)

Doctoral Thesis

Britons abroad is a contribution to the study of ancient mobility in the Roman Empire with the focus on the mobility of materials and people and the ways objects and people interact dialectically when brought to a new environment. This study looks at Britons who, voluntarily or forcedly, moved overseas in the period of the first to third centuries AD and identifies the ways one can use to trace their mobility. It also explores the changes in the personal and communal identification as expressed by Britons, who settled abroad, and tries to locate a unified element in the (ethnic) identities when compared to those people who stayed put with those who migrated. The exploration of ‘Britishness’ abroad in the Roman Empire is set out on a variety of levels: individual (personal migration from Britain) and communal (the occurrence of British military units abroad); human mobility and mobility of artefacts; movement of British-born and Continental-born to and from Britain. This research approaches the study of mobility and social changes in moved communities through a province-by-province study of archaeological sites and their assemblages but is not limited to the physical borders of the Roman Empire.

• Archaeology
• Mobility
• Migration and diaspora
• Britons abroad
• British-made brooches
• British auxiliary and numeri units

• All authors: Ivleva, T.A.
• Supervisor: Bintliff, J.L.
• Co-supervisor: Meer, L.B. van der
• Qualification: Doctor (dr.)
• Awarding Institution: Faculty of Archeology, Leiden University
• Date: 2012-11-20