Before the 1970s, discoveries of Roman material in Guernsey consisted of a few chance finds of coins, plus a handful of sherds of samian pottery from the harbour and from prehistoric megaliths. Since the 1980s, however, two large-scale excavations in the town of St Peter Port, plus accumulated evidence from rescue excavations elsewhere in the island and from underwater discoveries, has demonstrated that there was significant Roman occupation which lasted for several centuries. This volume presents reports of the excavations carried out at La Plaiderie (1983–85) and the Bonded Store (1996–2005) in St Peter Port, together with a gazetteer of all Roman finds recorded from almost one hundred other sites in Guernsey and Herm. It includes a detailed study of the pottery recovered from the two town sites, which demonstrates that Guernsey was a significant port-of-call on the Atlantic trade route and along the length of the Channel. Finds included pottery, including samian, glass, intaglios, metalworking debris, a range of small finds and environmental data. The volume concludes with a gazetteer of Roman sites and finds on Guernsey and Herm.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• Acknowledgements
• I. The excavations
  • 1. Introduction: the archaeological evidence for the Romans in Guernsey and the other Channel Islands
    • New evidence from excavations since 1980
  • 2. Excavations at La Plaiderie, 1983–1985: by Philip de Jersey
    • Introduction
    • Background to the excavation
    • The excavated area
    • Phasing and key features
    • Summary
  • 3. Excavations at the Bonded Store, 1996–2005: by Heather Sebire
    • Background to the excavation
    • The excavations
    • Summary of Bonded Store phasing and discussion
    • Conclusions: the nature of the Roman settlement
• II. The finds
  • 4. The Roman pottery: by Mark Wood and Jason Monaghan
    • Introduction
    • Previous work
    • The Bonded Store and La Plaiderie assemblages
    • The late Iron Age and late Iron Age/Roman transition
    • The early Roman period
    • High Empire
    • Late Roman (after AD 270)
    • Late/post-Roman period
    • La Plaiderie and the Bonded Store: comparisons
    • Conclusions
    • Catalogue of illustrated coarse pottery by Mark Wood and Jason Monaghan
    • The samian ware by B. R. Hartley and Brenda Dickinson
    • Samian from other sites in Guernsey and Herm by Brenda Dickinson
    • Roman pottery from other sites in Guernsey and Herm by Jason Monaghan
    • Graffiti by R. S. O. Tomlin
  • 5. Other finds: Roman brick and tile by Jason Monaghan
    • Briquetage by Jason Monaghan
    • Roman coins and coin moulds from La Plaiderie by Cathy King and George Boon
    • Metal small-finds from La Plaiderie and the Bonded Store by Heather Sebire and Philip de Jersey
    • Miscellaneous small-finds from the Bonded Store and La Plaiderie by Heather Sebire
    • The Bonded Store glass by Vivien Ferneyhough
    • La Plaiderie glass by Vivien Ferneyhough
    • Intaglios by Tristan Arnison
    • Metal-working debris from the Bonded Store by Chris Salter
    • Animal bone from the Bonded Store by Jonathan D. Le Huray
    • Environmental finds from the Bonded Store by James Rackham
  • 6. Gazetteer of Roman sites and finds on Guernsey and Herm: by Tanya Walls, Philip de Jersey and Jason Monaghan
    • A. Roman finds from excavated sites on Guernsey and Herm
    • B. Roman finds from non-excavated sites (land and inter-tidal)
    • C. Roman finds from non-excavated sites (underwater)
• Bibliography
• Appendix: pottery codes