Roman Catterick Re-visited

Abstract

The pair of digital volumes reviewed here (henceforth CECR I and 2) present the report from Northern Archaeological Associates (NAA) on the archaeological work undertaken during the improvement of the A1 road from Leeming to Barton. They are principally concerned with the sites investigated at Catterick and Bainesse, but also include Roman material from other sites on the scheme (Scurragh House, Scotch Corner and Low Street). They complement the previous publications, Death, Burial and Identity (Speed and Holst 2018) and Contact, Concord and Conquest (Fell 2020) which dealt respectively with the human burials from the road scheme and the important late Iron Age–early Roman settlement discovered at Scotch Corner which I reviewed in an earlier volume of this journal (Millett 2021). Like those, this pair of volumes represents an enormous amount of work on which the authors and multiple contributors are to be congratulated. Although I have some concerns about the outcome of the work at Catterrick which I outline below, this should not detract from the long-term value of the information presented here, and as in my previous discussion of the A1 project, my intention in providing a critique is to present ideas for future debate.