Housesteads Roman Fort - the Grandest Station: Excavation and Survey, 1954-95, by Charles Daniels, John Gillam, James Crow and Others

Extensive archaeological studies of this important fort on Hadrian's Wall were conducted by Newcastle University between 1974 and 1981--a period in which radical advancement in archaeological techniques exploded the amount of data that could be gathered; but this information did not get consolidated and published, thus allowing the importance of the findings and of the site itself to be overshadowed by work done at other sites. This two-volume compendium rectifies the situation, combining the Newcastle findings with those done between 1959 and 1961 by Durham University to present a complete plan of the north-east part of the fort and of developments over a 300-year period of the Roman military frontier. The first volume presents the structural report and discussion; the second volume, the material assemblages. Early in his career, Rushworth was part of the 1980 season's team. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)