ABSTRACT
I have already considered Haverfield’s contribution to Roman frontier studies and his addresses on the significance of the Roman Empire to British imperial problems. In this chapter I shall consider the contribution of Haverfield to the development of the theory of ‘Romanization’. This theory was created to account for the transformation of native society within Roman Britain and the Western Empire into a Roman form. It helped to discredit the image of the Celtic subaltern, at least so far as the south of the country was concerned. Haverfield’s interpretation of Romanisation has been fundamental to the development of theory in Romano-British archaeology in the twentieth century.
