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"A Biography of Power: Research and Excavations at the Iron Age Oppidum of Bagendon, Gloucestershire (1979–2017)" by T. Moore is a comprehensive study that aims to shed light on the lesser-known Iron Age site of Bagendon in Gloucestershire. The book combines the results of new excavations, geophysical surveys, and previously unpublished work to provide a detailed understanding of the site's chronology, phasing, and significance. The research reveals a complex settlement system and trade network in southern Britain during the Iron Age, highlighting the evolving nature of cultural identity and elite power. The book is a valuable resource for researchers interested in this critical period of history. [Extracted from the article]

Two damaged and partially restored Roman portraits in the collection of the British Museum, previously identified as either the emperor Caligula or an unknown "Julio-Claudian prince," are here reassessed and identified as Agrippa Postumus, the youngest grandson and adopted heir of Augustus. The first portrait, from southern Britain, may have come from a temple dedicated to the worship of the Julio-Claudian house, while the second was probably part of an equestrian group standing outside the Aedes Castoris in Rome. This is a significant reinterpretation, providing potential evidence not only for links between Rome's first family and the rulers of a distant client kingdom, but also for the framing of imperial power and the uncertain nature of the Augustan succession in the early years of the 1st c. CE. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A magnetometry survey of the Roman fort at Lake Farm, near Wimborne Minster in Dorset, first discovered in 1959, has upgraded the status of this site to a full legionary fortress: a major base of the legio II Augusta during the subjugation of the Durotriges and other tribes of south-west Britain. The interior layout of the fortress was identified for the first time, together with the original road and river connections, extensive areas of extramural activity and evidence for an earlier phase of the site as a marching camp. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A damaged and badly weathered stone head, discovered prior to 1823 in York, and interpreted as an early portrait of the emperor Constantine I, is here re-examined and identified as a modified image of an earlier, deified emperor, almost certainly Hadrian. A re-analysis of the image as it survives today further suggests that the recarving, into a likeness of Constantine, occurred after a.d. 312 and not, as widely believed, at the moment of Constantine's proclamation as emperor in York in a.d. 306. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the use of laser scanners to determine the identity of the person's head depicted in a Roman bronze sculpture at the British Museum in London, England, which is attributed to depicting the Roman Emperor Claudius. The author contends that the identity of the bronze head at the British Museum may be the Roman Emperor Nero, rather than Emperor Claudius.