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Excavations at Owslebury, Hants: A Second Interim Report1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

Summary

The results of the 1968–9 seasons of excavations at Bottom Pond Farm, Owslebury (SU 525 246) are described, especially the layout of the pre-Roman settlement. Problems of the siting of the settlement, the land usage and the function of storage pits are discussed, and two inscribed bronze rings and an embossed bronze plaque are described in detail.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1970

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page 248 note 1 Bersu, G., Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, vi (1940), 30111CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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page 256 note 2 J. P. Bushe Fox, Excavations at Hengistbury Head (1915).

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page 257 note 5 The C is reversed, the second S is on its side, and the stop consists of three short verticals with a point above and below each one.

page 257 note 6 Sent for study by Mr. E. Greenfield, who directed the work for the Ministry of Public Building and Works. For the temple see J.R.S. lv (1965), 216Google Scholar.

page 258 note 1 The first letter has a long foot but from the analogy of the other two rings the letter seems to be I with an exaggerated serif, rather than L. The C is reversed, the second S is on its side. The stop is similar to that on the second of the rings described above.

page 258 note 2 The name Couxssius seems to be unmatched. There is a comparable cognomen Coxsinus (C.I.L. xii 3978) and a nomen Couxillius (C.I.L. xii, 1952).

page 259 note 1 The plaque was found on site Q, lying directly below the plough soil in the complex ditch Junction on the south-east part of the site. The majority of the pottery at this level was of late second-century type, but there were also a few late Roman Pietransherds. (J. R. C.)

page 259 note 2 e.g. British Museum Catalogue of the Coins of the Roman Empire, iv (1940)Google Scholar, pls. 55, 56, 58, 59, 67, 68, 70, 73, 74, 76, 78, 86, 87.

page 259 note 3 Toynbee, J. M. C., Roman Medallions (1944)Google Scholar, pl. 17, no. 5.

page 259 note 4 Cf. the rounded, knob-like quiver-lid appearing above Diana's right shoulder on one of the attic reliefs of Trajan's Arch at Beneventum (C. Pietransherdsgeli, L'arco di Traiano a Benevento (Documentario Fotografico Athenaeum), n.d., pl. 6) and on one of the Hadrianic roundels on the Arch of Constantine in Rome(A. Giutiano, Arcodi Costantino (1955), pl.12).