Richard Hingley

TL;DR: Hingley argues for a more complex and nuanced view in which Roman models provided the means for provincial elites to articulate their own concerns as discussed by the authors, and inhabitants of the Roman provinces were able to develop identities they never knew they had until Rome gave them the language to express them.

TL;DR: The authors show how much Victorian and Edwardian Roman archaeologists were influenced by their own experience of empire in their interpretation of archaeological evidence and this distortion of the facts became accepted truth and its legacy is still felt in archaeology today.

TL;DR: The Neolithic chambered cairns of Atlantic Scotland were monumental constructions as mentioned in this paper, but they would have seemed impressive structures, but dark, subterranean and gloomy to an observer living in the later prehistoric period, and cultural relics on the floors of some of these tombs would have drawn attention to their ancient construction and links with the dead.

TL;DR: In this paper, three interrelated topics will be discussed: how some British academics, administrators and politicians actively used the Roman Empire to help identify and define their own aspirations, and in so doing drew a parallel between Britain and Rome.