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Summary:

From Villa to Village - Continuity and Change: Proceedings of a Conference held by the Upper Nene Archaeological Society, April 2005

It seeks to draw together new evidence for an enigmatic and much-debated period, the transition from Roman Britain to Anglo-Saxon Britain, looking at some of the wealth of current research, which is changing our perception of this period and exploding some of the myths which have long held sway. 
Professor William Bowden (University of Reading) and Professor Anthony King (University of Winchester) discuss their respective research in Italy, on the end of the villa and the birth of the village there, a valuable backdrop to the predominantly British picture that follows.   

Dr. David Neal looks at the evidence from late Roman mosaics.  Regional studies are represented by Dr. Mark Corney (University of Bristol), on “ Villa economy & landscape continuity: investigations around Bradford-on-Avon”; David Rudling (University of Sussex) discusses his extensive work on “Late Romano-British settlements in the Sussex Ouse Valley”; Michael Hawkes (University of Leicester): “Continuity & proximity in the villa landscape of the East Midlands in the transitional Romano-British & Anglo-Saxon period”; Professor Stephen Upex (University of Brunei): “Roman villas into medieval villages: the evidence from the Lower Nene Valley”; Rod Mackey discusses the evidence from East Yorkshire and Tony Wilmott (English Heritage), findings in the north-western extremity of the Roman Empire, in the Hadrian’s Wall area.  Individual sites, which offer evidence, are analysed by Bob Zeepvat (Archaeological Services & Consultancy Ltd): Bancroft Roman Villa, Milton Keynes and, Piddington Roman Villa, Northamptonshire, where the remains of a wealthy Roman villa became home to a number of distinctive ‘family groups’ in the 4^th and 5^th centuries - and where the concept of the conference was born - is described by Roy Friendship-Taylor.  The Proceedings are drawn together by Dr. Simon Esmonde Cleary into a cohesive re-assessment of this period.