Abstract :
Focusing on late Roman bracelets, and also including other relevant material culture types,
this paper brings together an examination of spatial distribution, distribution by site-type, and
selected specifi c burial contexts to investigate provincial Roman material of non-local origin.
Using this methodology, it is suggested that migrant communities can be identifi ed at Krefeld-
Gellep in the Rhineland — thus demonstrating that this type of multi-layered approach can assist
in unravelling the complexity of the surviving evidence. The study also shows that a bias towards
military sites/large towns is a distribution pattern typical of material originating from a different
area of the Roman Empire.
