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A Group of Marked Brooches from Gloucester

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2011

Philip M. Cracknell
Philip M. Cracknell
Affiliation:
Carlisle Archaeological Unit, Department of Leisure Services, Civic Centre, Carlisle, CA3 8QG
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Innumerable Romano-British copper-alloy bow brooches have been found throughout Britain; indeed, after coins the brooch is generally the commonest ‘datable’ metal artefact on the majority of first- and second-century Roman sites. An enormous amount of work has already been carried out by specialists such as M.R. Hull and D.F. Mackreth on the development arid typology of the bow brooch: this article goes no further than merely suggesting another aspect of brooch study that may repay further investigation.

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Britannia , Volume 21 , November 1990 , pp. 197 - 206
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Copyright © Philip M. Cracknell 1990. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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References

1 A list of signed examples was published by Haverfield in Arch. Journ. ix (1903), 236 ff. Since then the number has greatly increased.

2 Metal-detector find.

3 Metal-detector find.

4 Hawkes, C.F.C. and Hull, M.R., Camulodunum Rep. Res. Comm. Soc. Antiq. London xiv (London, 1947)Google Scholar, Brooch 43, 311 and pl. xci.

5 Metal-detector find.

6 Previously published, see Green, C., JRS xxxiii (1943), 26 and pl. 1, 11.Google Scholar

7 The description is by D.F. Mackreth in ‘The Roman Brooches from Excavations at Gloucester 1968–1974’, 4, unpublished typescript in the City Excavation Unit.

8 The description is by D.F. Mackreth, ibid, 4.

9 The description is by D.F. Mackreth, ibid, 4.

10 The description is by Mackreth, D.F. in Rawes, B., Britannia xii (1981), 66 and fig. 8. 3.Google Scholar

11 Metal-detector find.

12 The description is by D.F. Mackreth in Rawes, op. cit. (note 10), 65 and fig. 8.2.

13 Included in the finds report in M. Atkin et al. Kingsholm II

14 See the brief discussion by Mackreth, D.F., Derbyshire Arch. Journ. cv (1985), 281–99Google Scholar, esp. 294.

15 Previously published, see Clifford, E.M., Trans. Bristol Gloucs. Arch. Soc. lxxx (1961), 47 and fig. 4, b.Google Scholar

16 Metal-detector find.

17 Included in the finds report in M. Atkin et al., Excavations in the Southgate Suburbs (forthcoming).

18 I would like to thank Malcolm Watkins of the City Museum, Jacquie Taylor and John Smith of the City Excavations Unit, and Colin Wallace for their help in the preparation of this article.