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Books
Roman Military Equipment from the Punic Wars to the Fall of Rome MC Bishop and JCN Coulston (Oxford, 2006)
Roman Fortresses and their Legions by RJ Brewer (London, 2000)
The Emperor and the Roman Army, 31 BC - AD 235 by B Campbell (Oxford, 1984)
The Roman Army 31 BC - AD 337. A Sourcebook by B Campbell (London, 1994)
Warfare and Society in Imperial Rome, c. 31 BC - AD 230 by B Campbell (London, 2002)
Greece and Rome at War by P Connolly (London, 1998)
Warfare in Roman Europe, AD 350-425 by H Elton (Oxford, 1996)
The Roman Art of War by CM Gilliver (London, 1999)
The Roman Army at War, 100 BC - AD 200 by AK Goldsworthy (Oxford, 1996)
Roman Forts by A Johnson (London, 1983)
Late Roman Fortifications by S Johnson (London, 1983)
The Making of the Roman Army from Republic to Empire by L Keppie (London, 1998)
The Military Decorations of the Roman Army by V Maxfield (London, 1981)
The Late Roman Army by P Southern and KR Dixon (London, 1996)
The Roman Soldier by GR Watson (London, 1969)
The Roman Imperial Army of the First and Second Centuries AD by G Webster (London, 1986)
Frontiers of the Roman Empire. A Social and Economic Study by CR Whittaker (Baltimore, 1994)
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Places to visit
Roman military sites to visit in Britain:
• Sites along Hadrian's Wall between Newcastle and Carlisle, and along the Antonine Wall between Edinburgh and Glasgow.
•Legionary fortress buildings and fortifications at York, Lincoln, Chester and Caerleon.
•Smaller military installations at The Lunt, Baginton (near Coventry), and on Hod Hill, Dorset (near Stourpaine).
•Massive Late Roman fortifications at London (Museum of London), York, Cardiff Castle, Pevensey (Sussex), Portchester Castle (Hampshire), Richborough (Kent).
The principal museum collections in Britain with Roman military exhibits:
• British Museum
• Museum of London
• National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
• National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
• Hunterian Museum, Glasgow
• Museum of Antiquities, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
• Tullie House Museum, Carlisle
• Corbridge Museum, Northumberland
• Grosvenor Museum, Chester
• Legionary Museum, Caerleon
Museums with military artefacts and sculptures elsewhere around the former Roman Empire:
• Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden, Netherlands
• Musée Nationale, Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
• Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig, Germany
• Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany
• Landesmuseum, Mainz, Germany
• Limesmuseum, Aalen, Germany
• Vindonissa Museum, Brugg, Switzerland
• Museum Carnuntinum, Bad Deutsch-Altenburg, Austria
• National Museum, Budapest, Hungary
• Muzeul National de Istorie a României, Bucarest, Romania
• Archaeological Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
• National Museum, Damascus, Syria
• Caravanserai Museum, Qalaat al Mudiq, Syria
• Greco-Roman Museum, Alexandria, Egypt
About the author
Dr Jon Coulston is a lecturer in Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He has worked on sites and museum collections all around the former Roman empire, and has published widely on the Roman army, military equipment, and Roman art.
