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Roman Britain in 1930

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2012

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Mathrafal, the ancient seat of the Princes of Powys, has in the past been regarded as a Roman site, on the strength of certain tiles found there. Mr. F. N. Pryce has investigated the site; he finds that the tiles are not Roman and are associated with much modern pottery, and suggests that they belong to the seventeenth or eighteenth century.

The tower at Coed-y-Garreg (Whitford parish, Flints.), whose identification as a Roman lighthouse was long ago rejected by Haverfield, is dated by Mr. B. H. St. J. O'Neil to the sixteenth or early seventeenth century.

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Copyright ©R. G. Collingwood and M. V. Taylor 1931. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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References

page 220 note 1 The Bill became an Act on June IIth, 1931; see JRS xx, 125.

page 221 note 1 v. ‘Roman York: Excavations in 1926–7,’ in JRS xviii, p. 68.

page 225 note 1 Northern Echo, September 13th, 1930.

page 225 note 2 See Antiqs. Journ., x, 169, pl. XIX.

page 225 note 3 VCH Warwickshire, i, 232.

page 225 note 4 It is noteworthy that the road running west from Little Chester (Derbyshire) by Rocester-on-Dove is pointing towards this spot when it disappears.

page 226 note 1 Cf. JRS xvii, 199, for similar construction near Wellington, and for other trenches across these two roads, see JRS xix, 194.

page 227 note 1 JRS xiv, 229; xv. 231; xvi, 229; xvii, 202. xviii, 201.

page 228 note 2 JRS xv, 235.

page 232 note 1 JRS xix, 196 ff.

page 233 note 1 Under the Presidency of Annie, Viscountess Cowdray, the Chairmanship of Sir Charles Peers, and the general direction of Mr. J. P. Bushe-Fox.

page 236 note 1 An interim report appeared in Antiq. Journ. xi (July, 1931), 273–7.

page 236 note 2 Morin-Jean (La Verrerie en Gaule, p. 53, shape 8) says that the type disappeared in the second century. The bowl is now in Colchester Museum.

page 236 note 3 Roman London (Hist. Mons. Comm.), Plan A, 0.25–0.65 in. E. of site W. 25.

page 236 note 4 See JRS xix, 199.

page 238 note 1 Arch., lxvi, 228, fig. 4; Roman London (Hist. Mons. Comm.), pp. 127, 40, fig. 7.

page 238 note 2 Built into this wall were a few segmental tiles of two forms: (I) five to a pillar of 33 in. (2) with lug for bonding into a wall, forming a projecting half column of 33 in. (cf. JRS xviii, 208; xix, 209, fig. 12, 3). Arch., lx, 222; Roman London (Hist. Mons. Comm.), p. 115, fig. 35.

page 238 note 3 Trans. Lond. and Midd. Arch. Soc., N.S. v., 189; Roman London (Hist. Mons. Comm.), p. 116, fig. 36 JRS xiv, 229.

page 238 note 4 Roman London (Hist. Mons. Comm.), pp. 36, 128, fig. 3 (46).

page 238 note 5 COSIRVF on form 18, MARI and OFMONTC on form 27, and form 37 in the style of Mercator.

page 239 note 1 Roman London (H.M.C.), pp. 130–2, fig. 49, JRS xvi, 231, no. 7; xvii, 204.

page 239 note 2 JRS xix, 200.

page 239 note 3 Arch. lxxi, 62 ff; JRS xi, 215, fig. 17.

page 239 note 4 Roman London (H.M.C.), plan A, junction of Byward Street and Great Tower Street.

page 240 note 1 Enfield Gazette, March 7th, 1930.

page 240 note 2 Surrey Comet, January 24th, 1931. For a cemetery here, see JRS xvii, 204.

page 240 note 3 Rudder, Gloucs., 1779, 1, 334; CIL vii, 1236; Eph. Ep. vii, no. 1130; cf. JRS xi, 239.

page 241note 1 Mr. Wood was Senior Proctor in 1800 and left Christ Church in 1814, and between 1802 and 1814 both John and Robert Phelips of Montacute were in residence at Christ Church, so that the discovery of the hoard and its deposit in the Library can be dated to these years with some certainty. Several hoards from Ham Hill are recorded by Prof. Haverfield in VCH Somerset, i, 297 but none there mentioned can be identified with this one.

page 241 note 2 No record of any discovery in Wilts, has reached us, but we would draw attention to a list of Romano-British sites which has been published by Mrs. Cunnington in Wilts. Arch. Mag. xlv, 166 ff.

page 242 note 1 Cf. The Athenaeum, February 23rd, 1905.

page 242 note 2 JRS xix, 205 f. To Miss Liddell's kindness we owe fig. 24 and pl. xxiii.

page 244 note 1 Arch., viii, 363. cf. also the N. building at Brading.

page 244 note 2 Bonner Jahrbücher, cxxxiii, p. 120 ff.; cf. JRS xix, 261 ff.

page 245 note 1 JRS. xix, 207 f.

page 245 note 2 See JRS, xix, 209 (1).