Personal Ornamentation As an Indicator of Cultural Diversity in the Roman North

by Timothy Webb

"Evidence of mutual influences in personal ornamentation from across the Roman Empire and local Britons were indicators of cultural change in the north of England. This blending of cultural traditions, in turn, leads to the formation of a unique northern Romano-British cultural assemblage. Furthermore, different types of personal ornaments and their iconography relate to several causal factors, including chronology, socio-economic factors (i.e. gender, ethnicity, and wealth) and geography ... This research uses the distribution of personal ornamentation to explore not only themes of...