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Contextualising Counterfeits: Roman Coin Moulds in Britain and the Channel Islands (2023)
Journal Article
Hingley, R. (2023). Contextualising Counterfeits: Roman Coin Moulds in Britain and the Channel Islands. Britannia: A Journal of Romano-British and Kindred Studies, 54, 189-225. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X23000363

This paper addresses the archaeological contexts of the clay moulds which were used to produce copies of Roman coins in third-century Britain. Research has focused primarily upon the technology and chronology of the use of moulds to produce copies of... Read More about Contextualising Counterfeits: Roman Coin Moulds in Britain and the Channel Islands.

Assessing How Representation of the Roman Past Impacts Public Perceptions of the Province of Britain (2021)
Journal Article
Hingley, R. (2021). Assessing How Representation of the Roman Past Impacts Public Perceptions of the Province of Britain. Public Archaeology, 18(4), 241-260. https://doi.org/10.1080/14655187.2021.1947064

There is a lack of detailed research into the attitudes of the public in Britain to the Roman past. Information and views about the Roman period are communicated to people in the UK through education at school and also by the media (TV, films, the In... Read More about Assessing How Representation of the Roman Past Impacts Public Perceptions of the Province of Britain.

Hadrian's Wall: an allegory for British disunity (2020)
Book Chapter
Hingley, R. (2020). Hadrian's Wall: an allegory for British disunity. In F. Kaminsky-Jones, & R. Kaminsky-Jones (Eds.), Celts, Romans, Britons: Classical and Celtic Influences in the construction of British Identities (201-221). Oxford University Press

Egalitarianism in the southern British Iron Age: an 'archaeology of knowledge' (2019)
Book Chapter
Hingley, R. (2019). Egalitarianism in the southern British Iron Age: an 'archaeology of knowledge'. In B. X. Cúrras, & I. Sastre (Eds.), Alternative iron ages: social theory from archaeological analysis. Routledge

This paper addresses the Iron Age roundhouses that have been (re)constructed throughout the UK since 1970 and some of the intangible associations that are linked to these structures. How concepts of science and experimentation have been used in const... Read More about Egalitarianism in the southern British Iron Age: an 'archaeology of knowledge'.

Images of Rome: Classical Rome and the United Kingdom, 1880 to 1930 (2018)
Book Chapter
Hingley, R. (2018). Images of Rome: Classical Rome and the United Kingdom, 1880 to 1930. In A. Duplá Ansuategui, E. Dell' Elicine, & J. Pérez Mostaza (Eds.), Antigüiedad clásica y naciones modernas en el Viejo y el Nuevo Mundo (211-226). Ediciones Polifemo

‘Are You Local?’ Indigenous Iron Age and Mobile Roman and Post-Roman Populations: Then, Now and In-Between (2018)
Journal Article
Hingley, R., Bonacchi, C., & Sharpe, K. (2018). ‘Are You Local?’ Indigenous Iron Age and Mobile Roman and Post-Roman Populations: Then, Now and In-Between. Britannia: A Journal of Romano-British and Kindred Studies, 49, 283-302. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0068113x18000016

The Iron Age and Roman periods are often defined against each other through the establishment of dualities, such as barbarity–civilisation, or spiritual–rational. Despite criticisms, dualities remain prevalent in the National Curriculum for schools,... Read More about ‘Are You Local?’ Indigenous Iron Age and Mobile Roman and Post-Roman Populations: Then, Now and In-Between.

The Romans in Britain: Colonization of an Imperial Frontier (2017)
Book Chapter
Hingley, R. (2017). The Romans in Britain: Colonization of an Imperial Frontier. In C. Beaule (Ed.), Frontiers of colonialism (89-109). University Press of Florida

This chapter addresses the means through which the southern and eastern parts of the British Isles were incorporated into the Roman Empire during the first century CE. It assesses the significance of the value of the concept of colonialism to address... Read More about The Romans in Britain: Colonization of an Imperial Frontier.

Frontiers and mobilities: The Frontiers of the Roman Empire and Europe (2017)
Journal Article
Hingley, R. (2018). Frontiers and mobilities: The Frontiers of the Roman Empire and Europe. European Journal of Archaeology, 21(1), 78-95. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2017.17

This paper addresses the ‘Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site’ and seeks to introduce into this initiative some concepts derived from recent writings on contemporary mobilities and bordering, exploring the possibility of creating greate... Read More about Frontiers and mobilities: The Frontiers of the Roman Empire and Europe.

Introduction: Imperial Limits and the crossing of frontiers (2017)
Book Chapter
Hingley, R. (2017). Introduction: Imperial Limits and the crossing of frontiers. In S. Sánchez González, & A. Guglielmi (Eds.), Roman and Barbarians beyond the frontiers : archaeology, ideology and identities in the North (1-7). Oxbow Books

Exploring Ancient Identities in Modern Britain (2016)
Journal Article
Bonacchi, C., Hingley, R., & Yarrow, T. (2016). Exploring Ancient Identities in Modern Britain. Archaeology International, 19, 54-57. https://doi.org/10.5334/ai.1909

This brief update introduces the framework of a newly funded research project entitled ‘Iron Age and Roman Heritages: Exploring ancient identities in modern Britain’ to be undertaken collaboratively by Durham University and the UCL Institute of Archa... Read More about Exploring Ancient Identities in Modern Britain.

Constructing the Nation and Empire: Victorian and Edwardian Images of the Building of Roman Fortifications (2016)
Book Chapter
Hingley, R. (2016). Constructing the Nation and Empire: Victorian and Edwardian Images of the Building of Roman Fortifications. In T. Fögen, & R. Warren (Eds.), Graeco-Roman antiquity and the idea of Nationalism in the 19th century : case studies (153-174). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110473490-008

This paper explores four images that date to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that show building operations in Roman Britain. These include two paintings, an engraving and a book illustration. The images show scenes derived from the... Read More about Constructing the Nation and Empire: Victorian and Edwardian Images of the Building of Roman Fortifications.

Post-colonial and global Rome : the genealogy of empire (2014)
Book Chapter
Hingley, R. (2014). Post-colonial and global Rome : the genealogy of empire. In M. Pitts, & M. Versluys (Eds.), Globalisation and the Roman world : world history, connectivity and material culture (32-46). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781107338920.003

This chapter reflects upon how contemporary scholarship in Roman studies relates to the politics of our world. Classical concepts of order, security and civilisation are deeply embedded within political understandings of the present. The Roman empire... Read More about Post-colonial and global Rome : the genealogy of empire.

Early Studies in Roman Britain: 1610 to 1906 (2014)
Book Chapter
Hingley, R. (2016). Early Studies in Roman Britain: 1610 to 1906. In M. Millett, L. Revell, & A. Moore (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of Roman Britain (3-21). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697731.013.001

This chapter provides a summary of changing interpretation of Roman Britain between 1586 and 1906. It commences with the interpretation of the history of the Roman province outlined by William Camden in his seminal account Britannia. It provides an e... Read More about Early Studies in Roman Britain: 1610 to 1906.

Struggling with a Roman Inheritance. A response to Versluys (2014)
Journal Article
Hingley, R. (2014). Struggling with a Roman Inheritance. A response to Versluys. Archaeological Dialogues, 21(1), 20-24. https://doi.org/10.1017/s138020381400004x

I am very grateful to Miguel John Versluys for this paper, which raises several important issues that derive from current debates in Roman archaeology. I am aware of the context of Versluys's arguments as I am a contributor to the forthcoming volume... Read More about Struggling with a Roman Inheritance. A response to Versluys.

Introduction (2014)
Book Chapter
Hingley, R. (2014). Introduction. In M. Janković, V. Mihajlović, & S. Babić (Eds.), The edges of the Roman world (1-4). Cambridge Scholars Publishing

The Living Frontier: The Passing of Time on Hadrian's Wall (2013)
Book Chapter
Hingley, R. (2013). The Living Frontier: The Passing of Time on Hadrian's Wall. In N. Mills (Ed.), Presenting the Romans: Interpreting the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site (147-156). Boydell & Brewer

Commentary: inheriting Roman Places (2012)
Book Chapter
Hingley, R. (2012). Commentary: inheriting Roman Places. In D. M. Totten, & K. Lafrenz Samules (Eds.), Making Roman Places, past and present (171-176). Journal of Roman Archaeology

Comment: processing the past (2012)
Book Chapter
Hingley, R. (2012). Comment: processing the past. In N. M. Burström, & F. Fahlander (Eds.), Matters of Scale: Processes and courses of events in the past and the present (185-196). PAG

Life of an Ancient Monument: Hadrian's Wall in History (2012)
Journal Article
Hingley, R., Witcher, R., & Nesbitt, C. (2012). Life of an Ancient Monument: Hadrian's Wall in History. Antiquity, 86(333), 760-771. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00047906

The Romans are Britain's favourite invaders, and Hadrian's Wall is among the largest and finest of the relics they left behind on the island. However, as our authors urge, we should demand more intellectual depth from our monuments today. Not simply... Read More about Life of an Ancient Monument: Hadrian's Wall in History.

Rome: Imperial and Local Religions (2011)
Book Chapter
Hingley, R. (2011). Rome: Imperial and Local Religions. In T. Insoll (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of the archaeology of ritual and religion (745-757). Oxford University Press

Tales of the Frontier: diasporas on Hadrian's wall (2010)
Book Chapter
Hingley, R. (2010). Tales of the Frontier: diasporas on Hadrian's wall. In H. Eckardt (Ed.), Roman diasporas : archaeological approaches to mobility and diversity in the Roman Empire (227-243). Journal of Roman Archaeology

Stonehenge (2010)
Journal Article
Hingley, R. (2010). Stonehenge. The Public Historian, 32, 143-6

Edward Gibbon and Francis Haverfield: The Traditions of Imperial Decline (2010)
Book Chapter
Rogers, A., & Hingley, R. (2010). Edward Gibbon and Francis Haverfield: The Traditions of Imperial Decline. In M. Bradley (Ed.), Classics & imperialism in the British Empire (189-209). Oxford University Press

An article that explores Gibbon's writings about declime and fall and the impact of this work on the late Victorian and Edwardian archaeologists, Francis Haverfield. Part of a book that explores the relationship of classical knowledge to the maintena... Read More about Edward Gibbon and Francis Haverfield: The Traditions of Imperial Decline.

‘The most ancient Boundary between England and Scotland’: Genealogies of the Roman Wall(s) (2010)
Journal Article
Hingley, R. (2010). ‘The most ancient Boundary between England and Scotland’: Genealogies of the Roman Wall(s). Classical Receptions Journal, 2(1), 25-43. https://doi.org/10.1093/crj/clq001

Drawing upon the writings of English, Scottish and Irish authors, this article explores the conceptual spaces created through the medium of the two Roman Walls of Britain. Late seventeenth- to early twentieth-century texts are addressed to explore ho... Read More about ‘The most ancient Boundary between England and Scotland’: Genealogies of the Roman Wall(s).

Archaeologies of Landscape. Excavating the Materialities of Hadrian's Wall (2010)
Journal Article
Witcher, R., Tolia-Kelly, D., & Hingley, R. (2010). Archaeologies of Landscape. Excavating the Materialities of Hadrian's Wall. Journal of Material Culture, 15(1), 105-128. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183510355228

This article interrogates the materiality of Hadrian’s Wall beyond its widespread perception as a monument of/to Ancient Rome. Encounters with this monument have generated multitudinous materialities: hegemonic, conflicting and ambiguous. These traje... Read More about Archaeologies of Landscape. Excavating the Materialities of Hadrian's Wall.

Esoteric Knowledge? Ancient Bronze Artefacts from Iron Age Contexts (2009)
Journal Article
Hingley, R. (2009). Esoteric Knowledge? Ancient Bronze Artefacts from Iron Age Contexts. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 75, 143-165. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0079497x00000335

‘Esoteric knowledge is knowledge of the unusual, the exceptional, the extraordinary; knowledge of things that in some way lie beyond the familiar everyday world’ (Helms 1988, 13) This paper explores the ways in which Bronze Age bronze artefacts may,... Read More about Esoteric Knowledge? Ancient Bronze Artefacts from Iron Age Contexts.

Foreword (2009)
Book Chapter
Hingely, R. (2009). Foreword. In J. Proctor (Ed.), Pegswood Moor, Morpeth: A later Iron Age and Romano-British Farmstead Settlement. Pre-Construct Archaeology

Cultural Diversity and Unity: Empire and Rome (2009)
Book Chapter
Hingley, R. (2009). Cultural Diversity and Unity: Empire and Rome. In S. Hales, & T. Hodos (Eds.), Material culture and social identities in the ancient world (54-75). Cambridge University Press

A Wall for all times (2008)
Journal Article
Hingley, R., & Nesbitt, C. (2008). A Wall for all times

Not so Romanized? Tradition, reinvention or discovery in the study of Roman Britain (2008)
Journal Article
Hingley, R. (2008). Not so Romanized? Tradition, reinvention or discovery in the study of Roman Britain. World Archaeology, 40(3), 427-443. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438240802261531

Recent scholarship has claimed that the history of Roman Britain has been discussed in terms of 'Romanization' since the beginning of the seventeenth century. In fact, it is wrong to think that there is a single tradition in the understanding of Roma... Read More about Not so Romanized? Tradition, reinvention or discovery in the study of Roman Britain.

Hadrian's Wall in Theory: Pursuing new agendas (2008)
Book Chapter
Hingley, R. (2008). Hadrian's Wall in Theory: Pursuing new agendas. In P. Bidwell (Ed.), Understanding Hadrian's Wall : papers from a conference held at South Shields, 3rd-5th November, 2006, to mark the publication of the 14th edition of the Handbook of the Roman Wall (25-28). Arbeia Society

The Recovery of Roman Britain 1586 to 1906: A Colony so Fertile (2008)
Book
Hingley, R. (2008). The Recovery of Roman Britain 1586 to 1906: A Colony so Fertile. Oxford University Press

From the sixteenth century, classical texts enabled Scottish and English authors and artists to imagine the character and appearance of their forebears and to consider the relevance of these ideas to their contemporaries. Richard Hingley's study cros... Read More about The Recovery of Roman Britain 1586 to 1906: A Colony so Fertile.

Romans and Natives in Britain. (2008)
Book Chapter
Hingley, R. (2008). Romans and Natives in Britain. In Rome and the Barbarians: The birth of a new world (112-115). Skira

The Currency Bars. (2007)
Book Chapter
Hingley, R. (2007). The Currency Bars. In P. Crummy, S. Benfield, N. Crummy, V. Rigby, & D. Shimmin (Eds.), Stanway: An Elite Burial site at Camulodunum (33-6). Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

The Roman Landscape of Britain: From Hoskins to today. (2007)
Book Chapter
Hingley, R. (2007). The Roman Landscape of Britain: From Hoskins to today. In A. Fleming, & R. Hingley (Eds.), Prehistoric and Roman Landscapes: Landscape History after Hoskins (101-113). Windgather

Roman Finds: Context and Theory (2007)
Book Chapter
Willis, S., & Hingley, R. (2007). Roman Finds: Context and Theory. In R. Hingley, & S. Willis (Eds.), Roman Finds: Context and Theory (2-17). Oxbow

Projecting empire: the mapping of Roman Britain (2006)
Journal Article
Hingley, R. (2006). Projecting empire: the mapping of Roman Britain. Journal of Social Archaeology, 6(3), 328-353. https://doi.org/10.1177/1469605306067840

This article reviews the mapping of Roman Britain, from Roman antiquity to the contemporary age. By reviewing the classical mapping of the British Isles and three particular examples of cartographic representation produced during early modern and mod... Read More about Projecting empire: the mapping of Roman Britain.

The deposition of iron objects in Britain during the later prehistoric and Roman periods: contextual analysis and the significance of iron (2006)
Journal Article
Hingley, R. (2006). The deposition of iron objects in Britain during the later prehistoric and Roman periods: contextual analysis and the significance of iron. Britannia: A Journal of Romano-British and Kindred Studies, 37(1), 213-257. https://doi.org/10.3815/000000006784016620

Central to this paper is the meaning of the actions that lead to iron objects being found in archaeological contexts of later prehistoric and Roman date. It is argued that the placing of iron objects within the physical landscape reflects upon the ch... Read More about The deposition of iron objects in Britain during the later prehistoric and Roman periods: contextual analysis and the significance of iron.

Iron Deposition and its significance in pre-Roman Britain (2006)
Book Chapter
Haselgrove, C., & Hingley, R. (2006). Iron Deposition and its significance in pre-Roman Britain. In G. Bataille, & J. Guillaumet (Eds.), Les depots metalliques au second age du Fer en Europe temperee. Centre archeologique europeen

Settlement in Britannia. (2005)
Book Chapter
Hingley, R. (2005). Settlement in Britannia. In C. Fernandez Ochoa, & P. Garcia Diaz (Eds.), Unidad y diversidad en el Arco Atlantico en epoca romana (267-78). British Archaeological Reports

Boudica: Iron Age Warrior Queen (2005)
Book
Hingley, R., & Unwin, C. (2005). Boudica: Iron Age Warrior Queen. Hambledon and London

Boudica, or Boadicea, queen of the Iceni, led a famous revolt against Roman rule in Britain in AD 60, sacking London, Colchester and St Albans and throwing the province into chaos. Although then defeated by the governor, Suetonius Paulinus, her rebel... Read More about Boudica: Iron Age Warrior Queen.

Rural Settlement in Northern Britain (2004)
Book Chapter
Hingley, R. (2004). Rural Settlement in Northern Britain. In M. Todd (Ed.), A Companion to Roman Britain (327-48). Blackwell

History as an aid to understanding peat bogs (2002)
Book Chapter
Higley, R., & Ingram, H. (2002). History as an aid to understanding peat bogs. In T. Smout (Ed.), Understanding the Historic Environment in its Environmental Setting (60-87). Scottish Cultural Press

Images of Rome (2001)
Book Chapter
Hingley, R. (2001). Images of Rome. In R. Hingley (Ed.), Images of Rome : perceptions of ancient Rome in Europe and the United States in the modern age (7-22). Editorial Committee of the Journal of Roman Archaeology