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Roman Britain in 1949

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page 92 note 1 The line of the road was probably marked by a Roman milestone of Diocletian found in 1892 at Melin Crythan, about a mile south of the fort: Eph. Ep. IX, 1252.

page 92 note 2 The Borough Council has placed the finds from the Roman site in the National Museum of Wales, and has given instructions that the remains of the gate-tower are to be preserved.

page 92 note 3 Nash-Williams, V. E. in Bulletin of Board of Celtic Studies, xiii, 239Google Scholar ff. For the votive inscription of the 1st Cohort of Nervii see Eph. Ep. VII, 863, ix, p. 529 (7).

page 92 note 4 Information from Mr. W. A. Anderson who, with Mr. Charles Taylor, carried out the work for the Scottish Field School of Archaeology.

page 92 note 5 These together with other photographs of sites in SW Scotland it is hoped to publish in 1951 in a paper to be contributed by Dr. St. Joseph.

page 93 note 6 Sir Macdonald, G., Soc. Ant. Proc. Scot. 66, 1932, 240Google Scholar f.

page 94 note 7 Information and plan from Mr. Frank Newall, who carried out the work with advice from Mr. John Clarke and Miss Anne Robertson.

page 94 note 8 Information from Miss Anne Robertson, director of the excavations, who also allowed us to use her plan.

page 95 note 9 Information from Mr. John Clarke, who is still engaged on the analysis of the material from the ditches.

page 95 note 10 JRS xxx, 1940, 161Google Scholar f., fig. 11.

page 95 note 11 Stevenson, G. H., Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., XLVI (1912), 450 ffGoogle Scholar.

page 95 note 12 Information from Dr. St. Joseph, Curator of Aerial Photography, Cambridge University.

page 95 note 13 A full report by Mr. R. Hogg in forthcoming issue (vol. XLIX) of Cumb. and Westm. Arch. Soc. Trans.

page 96 note 14 These have been excavated under the direction of Professor Richmond and consolidated by the Municipal Corporation of South Shields, and form the chief feature of Roman Remains Park in Baring Street.

page 96 note 15 See Arch. Ael.4 xi, 83 ff.

page 96 note 16 The stamped tiles of cohors V Gallorum belong to the previous century.

page 97 note 17 Carson, R. A. G. in Num. Chron. VIII, 1948, 232Google Scholar.

page 98 note 18 Cumb. and Westm. Arch. Soc. Trans, xxxv, 223, fig. 4. For the timber strapping beneath the rampart at York cf. JRS xv, 1925, 187Google Scholar, and at Caerleon, Arch. Cambr. LXXXVI, 1931, 103Google Scholar f., and JRS XVII, 1927, 184Google Scholar.

page 98 note 19 Information and illustrations from Mr. Graham Webster who directed the work. The report will be published in the Chester Arch. Soc. Journ. to which we are indebted for the loan of some blocks.

page 98 note 20 Numerous Celtic fields are also to be seen on one of Dr. St. Joseph's air photographs around the village of Ewe Close, Westmorland (cf. R. G. Collingwood, Archaeology of Roman Britain (1930) 156).

page 98 note 21 See also Yorks. Arch. Journ. XXXVII, 1948, 116Google Scholar.

page 98 note 22 The work has been carried out during the gravel digging by Mr. N. Mitchelson, to whom we are indebted for a report and the plan; cf. Yorks. Arch. Journ. XXXVII, 420 ff., for work in 1948.

page 98 note 23 Information from Mr. Derek Smith, who carried out the excavation for the Ministry of Works.

page 99 note 24 Information from Mr. Norman Smedley, of Doncaster Museum, where the hoard is preserved. See also Num. Chron. IX, 1949, 244.

page 99 note 25 Information from Mr. W. V. Wade, the Director of the excavation, whose report will be published in the Yorks. Arch.Journ.

page 99 note 26 Information from Mr. F. T. Baker, Hon. Sec. to the Lincoln Archaeological Research Committee, which carried out the work.

page 100 note 27 The kiln was excavated by members of the Summer School of Archaeology, under the direction of Mr. P. Corder, M. W. Barley, and W. V. Wade. For the report see Corder, P., A Romano-British Pottery-Kiln on the Lincoln Racecourse (University of Nottingham, 1950Google Scholar), with restorations.

page 100 note 28 Wm. Fowler published in 1800 in his collection of coloured engravings of The Principal Mosaic Pavements nos. 9 and 10, two geometric pavements from Denton, one from Stukeley's drawing (but coloured) in the Phil. Trans. Ap.–June 1728, no. 402, pp. 428 ff., pl. 1 (cf. Itin. Curios, 2nd ed., 1776, 86, footnote), and the other apparently copied by himself.

page 100 note 29 The work was carried out by the Ministry of Works under the direction of Mr. J. T. Smith. For a preliminary report see Arch. News Letter, April, 1950 189.

page 101 note 30 Information from Mr. F. H. Thompson, who, with his wife, excavated the site. For the earlier find see Gents. Mag. 1856, 1, 506 f., hence Watkin, W. T., Arch.Journ. XLIII (1886), 31Google Scholar, and VCH Notts. II, 23. The mosaic pavement has completely disappeared. The site has been examined at different periods since it was first found, especially by Mr. Harold Martin. It is hoped to publish a full report in the Thoroton Soc. Trans. A burial in gypsum found at Pollington, near Doncaster, in 1949, and now in Doncaster Museum, is reported by Mr. Norman Smedley.

page 101 note 31 Famous for a supposed Roman bridge over the R. Trent. See VCH Notts. II, 25.

page 102 note 32 Information from Mr. K. D. M. Dauncey who carried out the preliminary investigation with the help of Birmingham undergraduates and the Newark Archaeological Committee.

page 102 note 33 Information from Mr. David Clarke, Assistant Keeper of the Leicester Museum.

page 102 note 34 Information from Mr. J. L. Barber, who carried out the work with boys from Oakham School. For a bibliography of Great Casterton see VCH Rutland I, 88, and for the earth-works ibid. p. 109.

page 102 note 35 Information from Dr. St. Joseph.

page 102 note 36 A report will be published in full in Oxoniensia; the brooches are in the Ashmolean Museum.

page 102 note 37 Information from Dr. St. Joseph. For the kind of house cf. Nash Lee Farm, Terrick, near Ellesborough, Bucks, Records of Bucks II, 1870, 53 ff.; and also Lockleys, Welwyn, Antiqs. Journ. XVIII, 1938, 339 ffGoogle Scholar.

page 102 note 38 Information from Mr. R. C. Sansome; the remains of the coffins are in Aylesbury Museum.

page 102 note 39 VCH Herts. IV, 141, 150 f.

page 102 note 40 JRS XXVIII, 188.

page 102 note 41 Information and map from Mr. John Holmes, of St. Edmund's College, Ware, who carried out the field work and has been collecting records of local discoveries in recent years.

page 102 note 42 VCH Herts iv, 1914, pl. ivGoogle Scholar facing p. 132; Lowther, A. W. G., in Antiqs. Journ. XVII (1937), 39Google Scholar.

page 103 note 43 The work was carried out by students under training under the direction of Mrs. M. A. Cotton, Miss K. M. Richardson, and Dr. R. E. M. Wheeler.

page 104 note 44 A great ‘triumphal monument’ stood on a comparable oblong base 75 ft. long and 45 ft. broad in an exactly similar relationship to the forum. It was associated with abundant remains of imperial and other statues of marble, including Victories and captives, and has been ascribed inconclusively to Hadrian. Lizop, R., Les Convenae et les Consoranni (Bibliothèque mérídionale, Toulouse, 1931) 395 ffGoogle Scholar.

page 104 note 45 The circular upper stage on a square podium was supported on piers carried down into the podium; but here the monument apparently stood free, and was not associated with a forum. Lamboglia, N., La Liguria antica (Storia di Genova 1, 1941) 244 ff.Google Scholar; Formigé, J., Le Trophée des Alpes (La Turbie), Paris, 1949Google Scholar.

page 104 note 46 Camb. Antiq. Soc. Proc. 42, 1948, 117 fGoogle Scholar.

page 105 note 47 Information from Mr. R. R. Clarke.

page 105 note 48 The pot and coins are owned by Mr. Sydney Jeffery, Dairy Farm, Freckenham. Information from Miss Clare Fell of the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge.

page 105 note 49 Suffolk 6 in. O.S. Map XXIII, NW. Information from Mr. Basil Brown.

page 106 note 50 Information from Mr. Basil Brown; cf. VCH Suffolk I, 319 f.

page 107 note 51 The later road mentioned last year (JRS xxxix, 106) as joining this street turned out to be only a loop-road.

page 107 note 52 Major Brinson suggests that this building is a centre for the collection of the annona militaris, a very probable view.

page 107 note 53 Information and plan from Major Brinson, by permission of the Ministry of Works. See also Arch. News Letter Feb., 1949, 12; Feb. 1950, 146 ff.

page 107 note 54 For the Roman Essex Society.

page 107 note 55 Mr. Hull compares this group of discoveries to similar ones in Gaul at Champlieu, Sanxay, and Evreux: cf. Gallia II, 192, III, 44 ff., esp. 84 ff.

page 107 note 56 Information from Dr. St. Joseph.

page 107 note 57 For the Roman and Medieval London Excavation Council.

page 107 note 58 To judge from a coin found in the mortar.

page 109 note 59 Roman London (Royal Comm. Hist. Mon.) 69, fig. 8, and 79.

page 109 note 60 ibid., 90, no. 28.

page 109 note 61 Information from Mr. W. F. Grimes, the director of the excavation.

page 109 note 62 Information from Mrs. O'Neil, who is conducting the excavation.

page 109 note 63 Information from Mr. C. M. Sykes.

page 110 note 64 VCH Somerset I, 309.

page 110 note 65 Information from Mr. P. A. Rahtz, who with Mrs. Rahtz carried out the work with the help of Bristol schoolboys. The measurements are usual for the temenos of a temple: cf. Koethe, 23. Berichtd. röm.-germ.-Kommission 1933, 10 ff., especially PP. 55 ff.

page 110 note 66 VCH Somerset 1, 289, 291, fig. 59.

page 110 note 67 In 1932 building no. I was wrongly identified with the house found in 1817 by Skinner.

page 110 note 68 But one was a little more elaborate, see JRS xxviii, 190 f.

page 110 note 69 Information and photograph from Mr. W. J. Wedlake, the director of the excavations, who aims at recovering the complete plan of this interesting settlement.

page 110 note 70 Information from Mr. H. S. Dewar.

page 110 note 71 Information from Mr. J. Stevens Cox, who submitted the hoards to Miss Anne Robertson.

page 110 note 72 Information from Mr. B. H. St. J. O'Neil, who with the Rev. H. A. Lewis cleared the site.

page 110 note 73 Arch. News Letter June, 1950, p. 19.

page 111 note 74 The work was undertaken by the Department of British Antiquities in the British Museum, and a report is to be published in the Dorset Nat. Hist, and Arch. Soc. Trans.

page 111 note 75 The last confirms the N-S layout suggested by discoveries in High West Street (JRS XXVIII, 1938, 194Google Scholar) and Colliton Park (Ibid. XXIX, 1939, 219). Information about all these sites from Mr. R. A. H. Farrar.

page 111 note 76 By the Royal Commission on Hist. Mons.

page 111 note 77 By Poole Grammar School boys under the supervision of Mr. H. P. Smith.

page 111 note 78 A. E. Wilson, director of the excavations, in the Arch. News Letter February, 1950, 149; Sussex Daily News 1st September, 1949.

page 111 note 79 VCH Sussex III, 50.

page 111 note 80 N. E. Norris, Sussex County Mag. February, 1950 39 ff. A full report is to appear in the Sussex Arch. Collections.

page 111 note 81 The work was carried out by the Darenth Valley Research Club with voluntary help under the direction of Lieut.-Col. G. W. Meates, F.S.A., who has sent the information and allowed us to reproduce the illustrations shown on plates X–XII. The site was known by the discovery of a pavement found in digging a post-hole for the deer fence round the Park in the eighteenth century. VCH Kent III, 121. The report is to be published in Arch. Cantiana.

page 112 note 82 One head is certainly late fourth-century and looks like work from the east Mediterranean.

page 113 note 83 Accounts in the Press and information from Colonel Meates. An interim report is to be published in Arch. Cantiana.

page 114 note 84 Information from Mr. S. S. Frere, who directed the excavations for the Canterbury Excavation Committee.

page 114 note 85 F. Jenkins, in Arch Cant. LXII, 45 ff.

page 114 note 86 Excavated by F. Jenkins and John Boyle: Daily Telegraph, 28th December, 1949, and the South-Eastern Gazette, 3rd January, 1950.

page 114 note 1 When measurements are quoted the width precedes the height. The following abbreviations are used in addition to the usual ones, with superscript figures to denote the number of the series:— AA = Archaeologia Aeliana; CW = Cumberland and Westmorland Transactions; EE = Ephemeris Epigraphica.

page 114 note 2 Shaw, Archaeol. News Letter (February, 1950) 150. Mr. J. P. Gillam kindly provided photographs, drawings, and details and Mr. Eric Birley discussed the interpretation of the names, which will receive full treatment in the report on the Mithraeum.

page 115 note 3 JRS xxix (1939), 225Google Scholar. The phrase uetustate conlapsum, or sometimes dilapsum, is well known. Here the present writer conjectures [conlapsum in rui]nam as in CIL ix, 1596, or in CIL XIV, 2919, where the order of words, aedificia in ruinam conlapsa, is more normal.

page 115 note 4 Mr. G. Webster skilfully cleaned the stone of several coats of whitewash and made this reading, with which the present writer concurs.

page 115 note 5 Mr. R. Hogg kindly sent full details of the stone, now in Tullie House Museum, Carlisle, and Mr. E. Birley supplied the reading.

page 115 note 6 For stones from the Vallum see Richmond, and Birley, , AA4 xiv (1937), 227Google Scholar.

page 116 note 7 EE VII, 969, CW2 VI, 153.

page 116 note 8 The reading, published by Mr. E. Birley in CW2 XLVIII, 55, is based on R. G. Collingwood's drawing and the present writer's autopsy. Luperco is certain; Valerio, with ale ligatured, seems best. This prefect may have been a kinsman of the senator Q. Valerius Lupercus Iulius Frontinus, attested by two inscriptions from Vienne in Provence (PIR III, V 70).

page 116 note 9 Camden (ed. 1586) 452, CIL VII, 365.

page 116 note 10 CW2 XLVIII, 58.

page 116 note 11 Mr. F. T. Baker kindly sent full details from Soc. Ant. London, MS Willson VI, f. 15, where Thomas James gives a drawing and details.

page 116 note 12 Mr. J. H. Sinton kindly supplied details.

page 116 note 13 CIL VII, 364, Horsley Brit. Rom. 285 (Cumb. LXXV).

page 116 note 14 CW2 XLVIII, 57, showing that Smertrius is a Celtic name (see Egger, , Wiener Jahreshefte xxxv (1943), 100)Google Scholar.

page 116 note 15 Now in the possession of Mr. W. S. Abbott, Sacrewell Farm, who with Mr. G. Wyman Abbott, F.S.A., kindly sent a photograph and details.

page 117 note 16 Miller, Balmuildy 98, pl. LV, 2.

page 117 note 17 Lieut.-Col. G. W. Meates, Ill. London News 30th July, 1949; Professor R. E. M. Wheeler supplies TA[VRI]. Photograph kindly sent by Colonel Meates.

page 117 note 18 See Buecheler, Carmina Epigr. 1524, CIL VII, 2.

page 118 note 19 Seen by M. V. Taylor.