Lindsay Allason-Jones has been at the forefront of small finds and Roman frontier research for 40 years in a career focussed on, but not exclusive to, the north of Britain, encompassing an enormous range of object types and subject areas. Divided into thematic sections the contributions presented here to celebrate her many achievements all represent at least one aspect of Lindsay’s research interests. These encompass social and industrial aspects of northern frontier forts; new insights into inscribed and sculptural stones specific to military communities; religious, cultural and economic connotations of Roman armour finds; the economic and ideological penetration of romanitas in the frontiers as reflected by individual objects and classes of finds; evidence of trans-frontier interactions and invisible people; the role of John Clayton in the exploration and preservation of Hadrian’s Wall and its material culture; the detailed consideration of individual objects of significant interest; and a discussion of the widespread occurrence of mice in Roman art.

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• Chapter 1: Introduction: A wall for all
• Chapter 2: The nature and function of Roman frontiers revisited
• Chapter 3: The Roman army and the Roman smith: Some evidence from Britain
• Chapter 4: The accommodation of soldiers’ wives in Roman fort barracks – on Hadrian’s Wall and beyond
• Chapter 5: If the shoe fits: Style and status in the assemblage of children’s shoes from Vindolanda
• Chapter 6: A group of finds from outside the south-west gate of South Shields Roman fort
• Chapter 7: The Roman names of the fort at South Shields and an altar to the Di Conservatores
• Chapter 8: Commemorating the Wall: Roman sculpture and inscriptions from Hadrian’s Wall
• Chapter 9: Monumentalising military service: Soldiers in Romano-British sculpture
• Chapter 10: The Corbridge Hoard revisited
• Chapter 11: Characterising cult communities in the Roman provinces: Some observations on small finds evidence from the sanctuary of Liber Pater, Apulum
• Chapter 12: The Boston helmet: A preliminary account of a Parthian/Roman-era artefact at the Museum of Fine Arts
• Chapter 13: A pipeclay pseudo-Venus figurine from Binchester Roman fort, County Durham
• Chapter 14: Notes on the Vindolanda ‘calendar’: Related artefacts and the purpose of the Vindolanda fragment
• Chapter 15: A bead from Housesteads revisited
• Chapter 16: Keeping watch: A key handle from Font-y-Gary, Vale of Glamorgan
• Chapter 17: Art and society: Gems from northern Britain
• Chapter 18: Personal possessions or traded goods? Finds of decorated mould-blown glass vessels on Flavian sites in Northern Britain
• Chapter 19: Stories from black bangles: Jewellery and other finds of jet-like materials in Roman Scotland
• Chapter 20: Lost and Found: Casual loss and (re)discovery of Roman objects from the northern frontier
• Chapter 21: Known unknowns: ‘Invisible’ people in temporary camps
• Chapter 22: The rise and fall of the Housesteads amphitheatre
• Chapter 23: The Wall’s first great collection: The Clayton Collection
• Chapter 24: An Etruscan mirror from the collection of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne
• Chapter 25: ‘Drive away the cloud of plague’: A Greek amulet from Roman London
• Chapter 26: Putting some flesh on the bones: leather bikinis and body size
• Chapter 27: Tailpiece: Roman mice in art, allegory and actuality
• Chapter 28: Lindsay Allason-Jones: A bibliography
• Colour plates