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A Romano-Celtic Bust found at Sutton Mandeville, Wilts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 November 2011
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A ROMANO-CELTIC bust was discovered in 1967 by Mr. C. N. Moore, then Assistant Curator of the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, set into a wall-niche in Chapel Cottage, Sutton Row, Sutton Mandeville, about ten miles to the west of Salisbury. It was purchased by the museum in 1968. Sor far it has only been summarily published – in JRS lviii (1968), p. 201, pl. 18, fig. 3 (front view, while still in the wall), in the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Annual Report 1967–1968, pp. 16, 17, pl. l, c (left profile view, after removal to the museum), and in Salisbury Heritage, 1973, p. 18, fig 32 (same view as the last). But photographs giving several other views — three-quarters to right and left and from the back — were taken, both before and after the bust's removal from the cottage wall, by Mr Moore, who has kindly given me permission to publish here a selection of those that show it as it is now displayed.
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1 E.g. a head of Claudius in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen: West, R., Römische Porträt-Plastik, i (1933), pl. 57, fig. 250.Google Scholar
2 E.g. the bust of Trajan in the British Museum: R. P. Hinks, Greek and Roman Portrait Sculpture (1935), pl. 34.
3 Ibid., pl. 23.
4 E. Buschor, Das hellenistische Bildnis (1971), p. 88, No. 226, pl. 75.
5 J. M. C. Toynbee, Art in Roman Britain (1963), pl. 8. (The present writer still maintains the Romano-Celtic date of this head, despite a recent attempt to date it as Romanesque.)
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