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The Wincle, Cheshire, Hoard of Roman Gold Jewellery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

Catherine Johns ,
Hugh Thompson  and
Peter Wagstaff
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Summary

A hoard of Roman gold jewellery found at Wincle, Cheshire, in the 1870s had apparently been lost but re-emerged in 1978. The opportunity has been taken to publish and illustrate the objects in full, and to assess the significance of the hoard which is dated to the third century.

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Research Article
Information
The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 60 , Issue 1 , March 1980 , pp. 48 - 58
Copyright
Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1980

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NOTES

1 Watkin, W. Thompson, Roman Cheshire (1886), pp. 303–5 with figs, (re-issued 1974 by E. P. Publishing Ltd.).Google Scholar

2 Thompson, F. H., Roman Cheshire (1965), p. 108 and pl. 47.Google Scholar

3 Not shown in Margary, I. D., Roman Roads in Britain (3rd. edn., 1973)Google Scholar.

4 Antiq. J. lv (1975), 62–9;Google Scholar figs. 1 and 2 are reproduced as fig. 1a, b in this paper with Mr. Painter's permission.

5 op. cit., p. 303.

6 Information from Mr. J. Van Haeften.

7 Thompson, op. cit., p. 108.

8 All scientific examination of the objects was carried out in the British Museum Research Laboratory, and we are grateful to the Keeper, Dr. M. Tite, and to Mr. A. Oddy, who carried out the work.

9 Johns, Scatherine, ‘A Roman gold and emerald necklace from Cannon Street, London’, Antiq. J. lvi (1976), 247.Google Scholar This necklace fragment will also be published in the forthcoming report of the Cannon Street excavations.

10 Catherine Johns, ‘Fragments of two Roman necklaces from Canterbury’,Antiq. J. lix (1979), 420–1Google Scholar.

11 Marshall, F. H., Catalogue of the Jewellery, Greek, Etruscan and Roman, in the Departments of Antiquities, British Museum (London, 1911).Google Scholar We should like to thank Mr. D. M. Bailey for his help in finding parallels for the jewellery in the collection of the Greek and Roman Department.

12 Riha, Emilie, Die römischen Fibeln aus Augst und Kaiseraugst (Augst, 1979).Google Scholar Riha's Type 6.5 corresponds to Keller's Type I; Keller, E., ‘Die spätromischen Grabfundein Südbayern’, Münchner Beiträge zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte, xiv (1971)) 26Google Scholar.

13 Henig, M., A Corpus of Roman Engraved Gemstones from British Sites (British Archaeological Reports 8) (2nd edn. 1978)Google Scholar. Henig discusses rings of Type VII on p. 38, and comments on the Wincle hoard as a whole on p. 53. He suggests a date for the hoard of c. a.d. 250.

14 Henkel, F., Die römischen Fingerringe Rheinlande (Berlin, 1913).Google Scholar

15 See also Kent, J. P. C. and Painter, K. S. (eds.), Wealth of the Roman World (British Museum, 1977), no. 125Google Scholar.

16 Brailsford, J. W., Guide to the Antiquities of Roman Britain (British Museum, 1964), pl Ill and p. 28, no. 6.Google Scholar

17 Henig discusses the date of the Rhayader group on his p. 53.

18 The type is discussed by Charlesworth, Dorothy, ‘A Roman gold earring from Birdoswald’, Antiq. J. lvii (1977), 323Google Scholar.

19 As yet unpublished, in Cambridge museum. The writer is grateful to Miss Mary Cra'ster, F.S.A. for bringing this object to her attention.

20 For a discussion of votive leaves, see Jocelyn Toynbee, in Bird, J., Chapman, H. and Clark, J. (eds.), Collectanea Londiniensia (London, 1978), p. 126Google Scholar.

21 Oddy, W. A., ‘The production of gold wire in antiquity’, Gold Bulletin, Vol. 10, no. 3 (1977)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; id., ‘Hand-made wire in antiquity: a correction’, MASCA Journal (Philadelphia Museum), i (2) (1979), 44.

22 J. P. C. Kent and K. S.Painter, op. cit. nos. 231 to 235 (p. 128), with further references.