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Richard Hingley's Outputs (23)

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.

‘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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

‘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.

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.

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.