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A Roman Sceptre-Head from Eastbury, Berks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2011

Lori-Ann Foley
Lori-Ann Foley
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Linacre College, Oxford
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Britannia , Volume 22 , November 1991 , pp. 208 - 210
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Copyright © Lori-Ann Foley 1991. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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11 I would like to thank Paul Cannon, Assistant Curator of the Newbury District Museum, for making the sceptre head available to me. I would also like to thank Dr Martin Henig for his helpful comments; Alice Wilkins of the Oxford Institute of Archaeology for her advice on the drawings; Robert Wilkins of the Oxford Institute of Archaeology for his photographs.

12 The sceptre head is 3.67 cm long, 2.60 cm wide and 1.94 cm deep.

13 The opening measures 1.40 cm by 0.67 cm.

14 Henig, M. in Cunliffe, B., ‘The Romano-British Village at Chalton. Hants.’, Proc. Hants. Field Club and Arch. Soc. xxxiii (1977), 45–67Google Scholar.

15 This piece has a height of 3.2 cm.

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18 Henig, op. cit. (note 14), 62.

19 Pers. comm.

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