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Some Romano-British Sculptures from Ancaster and Wilsford, Lincolnshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

S. S. Frere
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The purpose of this paper is to record three stones recently brought to my attention. The first was found about twenty years ago by Mr. Benjamin Wyles when digging a dyke in a field called the Long Liner near Slate House Farm, in the parish of Wilsford near Grantham. It is preserved in Wilsford church and is published by the kind permission of the Rector, the Rev. J. D. Smart. The other two, which are fragmentary, were found in the core of the north-east buttress of the east of Ancaster church in the course of reconstruction during August 1960. The wall, which is of the late twelfth century with flat plain buttresses, has had a fourteenth century window inserted into it, and has been repaired and refaced possibly at same time as the insertion of the window. There remain traces of the jamb-shafts and arch-springing of the original triple twelfth-century window. The wall developed serious settlement-cracks, and these were bonded by inserting concrete tie-beams behind the face of the wall, and at the same time grouting the loose core. Both stones are likely to have been built into the buttress in the twelfth century. I am indebted to Mr. L. H. Bond, L.R.I.B.A., for bringing them and the above facts to my notice, and to the Rev. L. W. B. Bacon, Vicar of Ancaster, for permission to publish.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 41 , Issue 3-4 , October 1961 , pp. 229 - 231
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1961

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page 229 note 1 I am indebted to Mr. M. B. Cookson for taking the photographs which illustrate this paper.

page 230 note 1 E. Espérandieu, Recueil général des bas-reliefs, statues et busies de la Gaule romaine, iv, 3450.

page 230 note 2 Arch. Journ. xxvii, 8–9; ibid, ciii, 19–20, and pl. lva. The stones are now in the Grantham Museum, and I am indebted to the Curator, Mr. C. P. Willard, A.L.A., for permission to publish the photographs on pl. XLI.

page 230 note 3 Despite the cross on the O.S. 1/2500 map in the south-west corner.

page 231 note 1 Atkinson, D., Report on Excavations at Wroxeter 1924–27 (Oxford 1942), pl. 60Google Scholar.

page 231 note 2 Esédrandieu, op. cit. iv, 3426, thought to indicate the power of a single goddess.

page 231 note 3 Ibid, vi, 4857; cf. ix, 7155.

page 231 note 4 In the British Museum: Guide to the Antiquities of Roman Britain (1922), p. 21.

page 231 note 5 Espérandieu, op. cit. xiv, 8509, from Dachstein (Strasbourg Museum).

page 231 note 6 Ibid, xiii, 8032, from Lombrès, Haute-Garonne (Musée de Comminges).

page 231 note 7 Lambrechts, P., L'Exaltation de la tête dans la pensée et dans I'art des Celtes (Bruges, 1954)Google Scholar; Anne Ross, Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot, xci, 10–43.

page 231 note 8 Op. cit. xci, pi. vib.

page 231 note 9 Cf. some of the reliefs, e.g. from Lower Slaughter, Glos., J.R.S. xlviii, pls. viii and ix.

page 231 note 10 Arch. Journ. ciii, 67–68.