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Roman Britain in 1947

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page 81 note * The compiler of these notes has received much help from Miss Ann Showers, Assistant Keeper in the Dept. of Antiquities, Ashmolean Museum.

page 81 note 1 Information from Mr. V. E. Nash-Williams.

page 81 note 2 The work was supervised by Miss Anne Robertson, of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, on behalf of the Ministry of Works.

page 82 note 3 A Roman Frontier Post and its People (Glasgow, 1911)Google Scholar.

page 82 note 4 Ibid. 405 f., nos. 163, 170.

page 83 note 5 We are much indebted to Dr. I. A. Richmond for the accounts and for the plan shown on plate XII.

page 83 note 6 Proc. Soc. Ant. Newcastle vii4, 1935–6, 107 ff.

page 83 note 7 Information from Mr. John Clarke, whose report, illustrated with plans, is published in the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Nat. Hist, and Antiq. Soc. Proc. and Trans. 1946–7, 9 ff., to which Society we are indebted for the loan of fig. 13. The work was carried out by Mr. Clarke under the auspices of the Scottish Regional Group of the Council of British Archaeology, with financial help from Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities and the Carnegie Trustees, as a summer school of archaeology for the training of students. In the same publication, p. 27 ff., Mr. W. A. Anderson reports the result of the investigation of the ‘Roman camp’ at Bombie, 2½ miles east of Kirkcudbright, which proved not to be Roman though built by people conversant with Roman methods of fortification.

page 83 note 8 Cumb. and Westm. Antiq. and Arch. Soc. Trans. XVI, 1900, 81 ff.Google Scholar, especially 85 ff.

page 84 note 9 Information from Miss M. C. Fair.

page 85 note 10 Birley, E. in Cumb. and Westm. Antiq. and Arch. Soc. Trans, n.s. xlvi, 1947, 126 f.Google Scholar, studies the evidence for the site as a whole. The site is marked as Overborough on the O.S. map of Roman Britain.

page 85 note 11 R. A. G. Carson, Num. Chron. 1947, 74 ff., with illustration of one pot.

page 86 note 12 The work was carried out for the Chester Archaeological Society by Mr. W. J. Williams and B. R. Hartley, whose plan and drawing (figs. 14, 15) are here reproduced. The report is to appear in the Chester Arch. Soc.Journ. Of the amphora-stamps, no. 1 seems to occur in CIL xv (11, 1), 2647, the word ‘por’ or ‘port’ apparently indicating ‘portus’, i.e. horreum as on tiles; no. 2 may be ibid. 3259, and nos. 4–6 2744, but cf. no. 2703 and CIL VII, 1331, 13.

page 86 note 13 A full account by the two excavators in the Yorkshire Arch. Journ. XXXVII (1948), 107 ff.Google Scholar, to which periodical we are indebted for the plan (fig. 16) and plate XIII. It may be noted that seven rectangular and four circular shrines of much the same size as that above, dedicated to Mercury, were found at Chanteroy by the Roman road from Lyons to Langres and Trier (see Grenier, , Manuel d'Archéologie Gallo-Romaine VI, I, 1934, 231Google Scholar, citing Cavaniol, H., Revue Arch, XXXIV, 1899, 220Google Scholar). For the cult of Vinotonus and Silvanus in Britain see Wright, R. P., Durham Univ. Journ. n.s. IX, 1948, 56 ffGoogle Scholar.

page 86 note 14 O.S. 25-in. map of Yorkshire, Sheet XCIII, 12, Fields 148, 156, 157. The work was carried out by the Scarborough and District Archaeological Society under the direction of Mr. J. G. Scott; we are indebted to Mr. T. C. Gwatkin, of Scarborough Museum, for information and plan.

page 88 note 15 Information from Mr. D. Waterman. Cf. York. Arch. Journ. XXXI, 77, and JRS XXII, 203 f.

page 88 note 16 Information also from Mr. D. Waterman.

page 88 note 17 Walker, J. in Num. Chron. VI, 1946, 147 ffGoogle Scholar. The pot and most of the coins are in Sheffield Museum, though some are in the British Museum and Darfield Schools Museum.

page 88 note 18 Information from Mr. Graham Webster, Field Supervisor to the Lincoln Archaeological Research Committee.

page 88 note 19 Information from Mrs. E. H. Rudkin and Mr. Graham Webster, F.S.A., who kindly sent the drawing.

page 88 note 20 Cf. those in Holbeach Fen, JRS XXVI 248 fGoogle Scholar.

page 89 note 21 This account is extracted from the report lent us by Dr. Grahame Clark, who directed the excavations.

page 89 note 21a Information from Dr. St. Joseph.

page 89 note 22 For the river-crossing see JRS XVIII 200.

page 89 note 23 Information from Miss Rosemary Cramp, who found the remains.

page 90 note 24 Information from Mr. Terence Powell, of Leicester Museum, and Mr. D. B. Harden, Ashmolean Museum, who saw the glass. The finds are now at Oakham.

page 90 note 25 Report of the Rugby School Natural History Society 1947, 34 f., 46. The work was carried out under the direction of Mr. P. G. Mason. Burials of the pagan Saxon period were found in the road and at its side for quite half a mile in 1824, 7 miles NW just to the SE of Bensford Bridge, near Cotesbach, Leicestershire (M. H. Bloxam, Fragmenta Sepulchralia, an unpublished fragment printed c. 1855, p. 56), and others in a mound by the road side 6 miles SE, at Norton, Northamptonshire, in 1855 and 1863. Archaeologia XLI, 479 ff., hence VCH Northants 1, 234 f.

page 90 note 26 P. V. Hill, Num. Chron. 1946, 159 ff. The hoard has been given to Bedford Modern School Museum.

page 90 note 26a The work was carried out by the O.U. Arch. Society under the direction of Miss P. M. M. Crouch and a report will appear in due course in Oxomensia. For Roman buildings, etc., at Asthall see VCH Oxon. 1, 330; the present discoveries may possibly be related to site no. 2 there described.

page 90 note 27 Information from Mrs. Edith M. Hunt.

page 90 note 28 Information from Mrs. O'Neil, F.S.A., Dr. N Davey, F.S.A., and Mr. G. F. Cole.

page 91 note 29 The work was carried out by Mr. R. R. Clarke, to whom we are indebted for this and all the Norfolk information. One decorated Anglo-Saxon potsherd was among the pottery and another with decoration derived from late Roman wares was found in 1946. The objects are in the Sandringham Estate Museum, York Cottage.

page 91 note 30 Compare VCH Oxon. 1, 307 ff. and plate XXII.

page 91 note 31 Salvage work here was carried out by Mr. G. Larwood for the Norfolk Research Committee.

page 91 note 32 H. Mattingly and J. W. Pearce, Num. Chron. 1946, 169 ff. Except for 12 coins kept by the British Museum the hoard, ring, and pot are in Ipswich Museum.

page 91 note 33 JRS XVII, 203; Trans. Essex Arch. Soc. XIX, 277; Ant. Journ. IX, 37.

page 91 note 34 Camulodunum Report (Soc. Antiq. Research Reports no. 14, 1947), 10, pl. i.

page 91 note 35 A small one on the neck has fallen out. The largest, behind the left shoulder, has been pulled out when the arm was detached.

page 91 note 36 Mr. Hull compares the figure with Loeschke, S., Der Tempelbezirk im Altbachtale zu Trier 1 (1938)Google Scholar, Taf. 18; Mainzer Zeitschrift XII/XIII, 178, Abb. 17; Fremersdorf, , Denkmäler des Römischen Köln, 1 (1928)Google Scholar, Taf. 114; and he points out that in all of them the god is shown without wings on the ankles and without cloak, but with wings on the head. The Heddernheim figure even lacks wings on the head. The more classical representation showing the god nude and carrying a cloak and usually with wings on the feet, and wings springing from the hat lingered on alongside the more severe tradition which had developed in Gaul, Germany, and Britain.

page 92 note 36a RCHM Essex IV (1923), 15Google Scholar. Information from Major Brinson.

page 92 note 37 The work was carried out by the newly formed Roman Essex Society. For the earlier discoveries see RCHM Essex II (1921), 39 fGoogle Scholar.

page 92 note 37a RCHM Essex IV (1922), 85Google Scholar. Information from Major Brinson.

page 92 note 38 RCHM Roman London, 104.

page 93 note 39 JRS XXXII, 41, fig. 5.

page 93 note 40 Information from Mr. Charles Green, who directed the work for the Gloucester Roman Research Committee. Much pottery was also found.

page 93 note 41 Information from Mrs. Clifford, F.S.A.; cf. Archaeologia LXIX, pl. xi. The mosaic is now in the Museum.

page 93 note 42 JRS XXVIII, 1938, 190Google Scholar, and Bristol and Glos. Arch. Soc. Trans. LXIII (1942), 250Google Scholar.

page 93 note 43 G. C. Boon, ibid, LVI (1945), 258 f.

page 93 note 44 Ibid. 255 f.

page 93 note 45 The Wilts. Arch. Mag. LI, 1946, 440Google Scholar.

page 93 note 46 Probably the same pavement found in 1887, VCH Somerset 1, 294.

page 93 note 47 Information from Mr. Cox.

page 94 note 48 The work was carried out by volunteers under Mr. H. S. L. Dewar, under the direction of Mr. C. A. R. Radford, F.S.A.; interim report in Som. and Dorset N. and Q. xxv, part ccxxxv.

page 94 note 49 The work was carried out as before, by the Yeovil School Archaeological Society.

page 94 note 50 Information from Lady Fox.

page 94 note 51 Information from Mr. P. Rhodes, who found the site.

page 94 note 52 Hants. Field Club Papers and Proc. XVI, 247 ff.

page 96 note 53 Information from Mr. A. W. G. Lowther, F.S.A., who, with Mr. W. F. Rankine, carried out the work.

page 96 note 54 Surrey Arch. Coll. XLIX, 108 f.

page 96 note 55 VCH Sussex in, 50. Cf. Hambledon Farm, Archaeologia LXXI, 141 ffGoogle Scholar. Brighton and Hove Herald 12, VII, 47; 2, VIII, 47; 17,1,48. The work was carried out by Dr. A. C. Wilson and Mr. N. E. S. Norris.

page 96 note 56 For iron-working sites in SE Sussex see VCH Sussex III, 31.

page 96 note 57 Sussex Arch. Coll. LXXXVI, 22 ff.; Arch. Cant. LIX, 29 ff. Cf. VCH Kent III, 138.

page 96 note 58 Information from Mr. Eames.

page 98 note 59 R. E. M. and T. V. Wheeler, Report on Excavations in Lydney Park (Soc. Ant. Research Reports IX), 125.

page 98 note 60 A paper on this subject by Mr. B.H. St. J. O'Neil, F.S.A., is being prepared for Num. Chron.

page 98 note 61 Information and plan from Mr. S. S. Frere, Director of Excavations. The walls discovered in 1868 at this point in St George's Street probably belong to this building (Archaeologia XLIII, 155 f., pl. XXII, 29 = VCH Kent III, 69 (7)).

page 98 note 62 JRS XXXVI, 145. A full repor t of the 1945 work by Mrs. Williams has been published in Arch. Cant. LX (1947), 68 ffGoogle Scholar.

page 98 note 63 JRS XXXVII, 146, and Arch. Cant. LX, 87 ff. Information of (4) and (5) sent by the excavators, Mr. John Boyle and Mr. Frank Jenkins. For illustrations of the pottery see Good Books (Quarterly Bulletin of Royal Museum and Public Library Canterbury), nos. 2 and 3.

page 99 note 64 Information from Dr. Steer. For a legionary tile found here, see below, p. 103, no. 17.

page 99 note 65 Information from Mrs. Murray-Threipland, who conducted the excavations in 1946.

page 99 note 1 When measurements are quoted the width precedes the height. The following abbreviations are used in addition to the usual ones, with superscript figures to denote the number of the series Arch. = Archaeologia; AA = Archaeologia Aeliana; EE = Ephemeris Epigraphica; PSAN = Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; YAJ = Yorkshire Archaeological Journal.

page 99 note 2 Haverfield, , Northd. County Hist. X, 498Google Scholar; EE IX, 1142, Richmond, , AA4 XXI (1943), 154.Google Scholar

page 99 note 3 Society of Antiquaries, portfolio Brit. Rom. III, f. 39.

page 100 note 4 Lent by the Governors of the School to Colchester Museum, Mr. M. R. Hull kindly made it available to the present writer.

page 100 note 5 JRS XXXVII, 178, fig. 8.

page 100 note 6 See Wright, , Durham Univ. Journ. XL (1948), 58.Google Scholar

page 100 note 7 Seen in Housesteads Museum by the present writer.

page 100 note 8 JRS XXXVII, 179.

page 100 note 9 Richmond, and Wright, , YAJ XXXVII (1948), 107.Google Scholar

page 101 note 10 First noticed by Mr. F. Jackson, and published in the Wolverhampton Express and Star, 18th May 1944. Seen and read by the present writer.

page 101 note 11 PSAN3 IV (1910), 287.Google Scholar

page 101 note 12 Found in the excavations described above, p. 81.

page 101 note 13 Nash-Williams, , Arch. Camb. XCIV (1939), 108.Google Scholar

page 101 note 14 First noticed by the present writer in the Tredegar collection in Newport Museum; cited, without inscriptions, Arch. LXII (1911), 435.Google Scholar

page 102 note 15 Information kindly given by the donor, Mr. T. Thornton Wills.

page 102 note 16 For description of the decoration see Brailsford in B.M. Handbook, The Mildenhall Treasure 8, no. 3, pl. 2a.

page 102 note 17 Sir Ellis Minns and Dr. I. A. Richmond kindly helped in the interpretation. The former quotes as a close analogy for the letter-forms a papyrus of A.D. 314 (Schubart, Pap. Graec. Ber. pl. 38a). Mr. T. C. Skeat (in a note to the present writer) points out that the name Eutherios does not appear to be attested before the fourth century, and that its most distinguished bearer was the Armenian eunuch who served under Constantine and Constans and was praepositus sacri cubiculi under Julian in Gaul (A.D. 355–361) (see Amm. Marc. XVI, 7; P-W, s.v.). As the plate is of superb quality and bears graffiti in Greek cursive script which can be assigned with some confidence to the fourth century A.D., Mr. Skeat suggests the possibility that this pair of magnificent platters may once have belonged to this official during his service in Gaul and may have been sold by him before he returned to Rome; some subsequent owner will have brought the plate into Britain.

page 102 note 18 For the decoration see Brailsford, l.c.

page 102 note 19 Op. cit. II, no. 8.

page 102 note 20 CIL VII, 1286; Lap. Sept. p. 342 with figure.

page 102 note 21 e.g. Richborough Rep. II, 46, pl. XIX, 32.

page 102 note 22 Op. cit. 10, no. 7, fig. 2.

page 103 note 23 Op. cit. II, no. 11, fig. 4a.

page 103 note 24 Op. cit. 12, fig. 4b.

page 103 note 25 Kindly submitted by Mr. W. J. Williams.

page 103 note 26 Details kindly sent by Dr. K. A. Steer.

page 103 note 27 Drawing and details kindly sent by Dr. V. E. Nash-Williams.

page 103 note 28 Now on loan in Barnet Museum; Mr. G. H Askew kindly sent it for study, see Antiq. Jour forthcoming.

page 104 note 29 Kindly submitted by Mrs. Harding, Lincoit, Wragby Road, Lincoln.

page 104 note 30 Kindly submitted by Mr. W. J. Williams.

page 104 note 31 First noticed by Mr. F. T. Baker, who kindly sent it for drawing. Hawkes and Richmond, Arch. Journ. CIII, 17.

page 104 note 32 Mr. J. H. Combridge found this on a modern tip near the site and kindly sent it to Corbridge Museum.

page 104 note 33 JRS XXXVII (1947), 182.Google Scholar

page 104 note 34 Information from Mr. S. F. Shutter, who has placed the sherd on loan in the Corinium Museum, Cirencester.