A major assessment of Roman agricultural and industrial production and manufacture in the southeastern region of England. It presents detailed studies of a variety of rural industries and manufacturing centres, and considers the supply of a range of essential goods to Roman London.

Editor’s foreword Michael Fulford and Martyn Allen: Introduction: population and the dynamics of change in Roman south-eastern England Petra Dark: The environment of southern Roman Britain David Bird: The countryside of the South-East in the Roman period Paul Booth: Kent Roman rural settlement David Rudling: Rural settlement in Roman Sussex David Bird: Rural settlement in Roman Surrey Gill Campbell: Market forces - a discussion of crop husbandry, horticulture and trade in plant resources in southern England Chris Green: Querns and millstones in late Iron Age and Roman London and south-east England Mark Maltby: The exploitation of animals and their contribution to urban food supply in Roman southern England Edward Biddulph: The Roman salt industry in south-eastern Britain Jackie Keily and Quita Mould: Leatherworking in south-eastern Britain in the Roman period Nina Crummy: Working skeletal materials in south-eastern Roman Britain Jeremy Hodgkinson: The development of iron production in the Roman Weald Ian Scott: Ironwork and its production Justine Bayley: Roman non-ferrous metalworking in southern Britain Louise Rayner: Clay, water, fuel: an overview of pottery production in and around early Roman London Ian Betts: The supply of tile to Roman London