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Spectroscopy and a Roman Cremation from Sompting, Sussex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2011

C. J. Ainsworth  and
H. B. A. Ratcliffe-Densham
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Abstract

Various forms of spectroscopic analysis are used for the study of human artifacts. Three methods are compared in this note on a large Roman cremation.

The ‘Marquis of Granby’ Inn (TQ 1612 0521) stands at the foot of the southern slope of the South Downs, in the village of Sompting, to the east of Worthing, in Sussex (FIG. I ). The local soil consists of some 3 ft. of brown earth on chalk. In the course of recent extensions to the inn part of the slope immediately to the north was levelled. A broken urn and 11 associated vessels lay on the buried chalk surface, beneath the extensions, together with a coin of Geta.

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Britannia , Volume 5 , November 1974 , pp. 310 - 316
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Copyright © C. J. Ainsworth and H. B. A. Ratcliffe-Densham 1974. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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