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  • 7 - The Developed Economy

  • Martin Millett, University of Cambridge
  • Foreword by Charlotte Higgins
  • Book:
    The Romanization of Britain
    Published online:
    02 January 2025
    Print publication:
    16 January 2025, pp 157-180

  • Summary

    The economy of later Roman Britain, as seen through the archaeological evidence, shows a series of differences from the earlier system. In summary, the pattern shows first an increasing regionalization of exchange at the expense of the inter-provincial trade dominant in the early Empire, and this greater emphasis on trade within Britain is accompanied by a change in industrial location, as rurally located production centres expand at the expense of those productive units near the civitas centres which had been most significant in the early Empire.