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Roman Britain in 1951

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page 86 note 1 Information from Dr. V. E. Nash-Williams, F.S.A.

page 87 note 2 Information and plan from Mr. F. Newall, who, with Mr. Sinclair, carried out the excavations, supported by grants from Glasgow Archaeological Society and the Renfrewshire Educational Trust.

page 88 note 3 The work was carried out under the auspices of the Hunterian Museum, and directed by Miss Anne Robertson, who sent information, with the help of students of the Scottish Field School of Archaeology, to which a grant was made by the Education Committee of Lanarkshire County Council. The Glasgow Herald has kindly lent the block of fig. c.

page 88 note 4 Sixth Report of Council of the Brit. Arch., Scottish Regional Group.

page 88 note 5 Sixth Report of Council of British Arch., Scottish Regional Group.

page 89 note 6 Information from Dr. K. A. Steer who, with Mr. R. W. Feachem, excavated the site.

page 89 note 7 Miss B. Swinbank carried out the four pieces of work for the Durham University Excavation Committee.

page 89 note 8 Conducted for the Durham University Excavation Committee by Professor I. A. Richmond and Mr. J.P. Gillam.

page 89 note 9 Arch. Ael. 4, XXVIII, 152 ff., pl. XI, XII.

page 89 note 10 Eph. Ep. IX, 1146 (A.D. 140); JRS XXVI, 264 (A.D. 139).

page 89 note 11 Arch. Ael. XXVIII, 175, fig. 5.

page 89 note 12 Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot. LXXIII, 133, fig. 11.

page 90 note 13 Arch. Ael. 3, v, 338 ff.; plan facing 344.

page 90 note 14 P. K. Baillie Reynolds, Kanovium (1938), 74, fig. 11.

page 90 note 15 Arch. Ael 4., XV, 257.

page 90 note 16 Information from Mr. R. M. Hogg, whose account of the crossings of the River Eden at Stanwix and their associated road systems will appear in the Cumb. & Westm. Arch. & Antiq. Soc. Trans., n.s., LII.

page 90 note 17 Report by Miss Brenda Swinbank, who carried out the work for the Ministry of Works, in Cumb. and Westm. Antiq. and Arch. Soc. Trans. n.s. LI, 176 f.

page 90 note 18 For an account of the site see Birley, E. Cumb. and Westm. Antiq. and Arch. Soc. Trans, n.s. xlvii, 1 ff.Google Scholar

page 91 note 19 A full report by Hildyard, E. J. W., the excavator, and Gillam, J. P. appears in Cumb. and Westm. Antiq. and Arch. Soc. Trans., n.s. LI, 40 ff.Google Scholar

page 91 note 20 In Manor St.; for a plan see Bruton, Roman Manchester (1909), with plan.

page 91 note 21 Information from Mr. Petch, who directed the work for the Excavations Committee of Manchester Classical Association and the Cheshire Antiquarian Society, with grants from the Corporation and University of Manchester.

page 91 note 22 Information from the excavator, Mr. Hildyard, E. J. W., who compares the site to Barrock Fell, Cumberland (Cumb. and Westm. Antiq. and Arch. Soc. Trans. n.s., XXXI, 111 ff.Google Scholar; JRS XXI, 220).

page 91 note 23 Information from Mr. Hildyard and from Mr. R. P. Wright, who carried out the work.

page 91 note 24 The trenches were dug for the Ministry of Works by Professor (now Sir) R. E. M. Wheeler and Miss K. Richardson, and an interim report is published in the Antiq. Journ. XXXII, 1 ff.

page 92 note 25 The work was carried out by students of Leeds University under the direction of Mr. W. V. Wade as part of an archaeological training. Mr. Wade's report has been published in the Leeds Philosophical Soc. Proc. VII, 1 ff., and to him and the Society we are indebted for information and for the loan of the illustrations shown in plate XI and figs. 9, 10.

page 94 note 26 Information from Mr. L. P. Wenham, who directed the excavation on behalf of the Ministry of Works. The skeletons are being examined by the Department of Anatomy of Manchester University.

page 94 note 27 JRS XLI, 125 f., and fig. 17.

page 94 note 28 Work was carried out for the Ministry of Works by Mr. D. Smith and P. Holman.

page 94 note 29 Baggaley, J. W., Yorks. Arch. Journ. XXXVIII, 120Google Scholar. The bracelet is in Sheffield Museum. For the Castlethorpe bracelet see Brit. Mus. Antiquities of Roman Britain, 1951, 13.

page 94 note 30 The work was carried out by Miss Greene, Dorothy. Yorks. Arch. Journ. XXXVIII, 112 ffGoogle Scholar. See also Wainwright, Wapentake of Strafford and Tickhill, p. 23, cited by Haverfield, F. in Vict. Co. Hist. Derbs. I, 245Google Scholar, where this line is shown on the map: cf. also JRS XL, 99.

page 94 note 31 cf. the birchwood lacing-course at Brough-by-Bainbridge, above, p. 91.

page 94 note 32 Information from Mr. G. Webster, F.S.A., who was in charge of the work. The report will be published in the forthcoming issue of the Chester Arch. Soc. Journ. For earlier excavations at the SE angle see ibid, XVI, 9 ff; XXIX, 41 ff; XXXVI, 56 ff.

page 94 note 33 The existence of the aqueduct is mentioned as early as 1700, and a map was published by Gough in his edition of Camden's Britannia (1806) 11, 366, as noted by Richmond, I. A., Arch. Journ. CIII (1936), 36 f.Google Scholar An example of the tile pipe sheathed in concrete and with internal socket is in Lincoln Museum.

page 94 note 33a Information from Mr. F. T. Baker, and to him and the Committee and the Institute of Water Engineers we are indebted for the loan of the blocks shown on pl. XII, and fig. 11.

page 96 note 34 Excavated by the Lincoln Archaeological Research Committee.

page 96 note 35 Information from Mr. F. T. Baker.

page 96 note 36 Information from Dr. P. Corder, who directed the work for the Summer School organized by the Department of Adult Education, Nottingham University.

page 96 note 37 Information from Miss E. Sladdin, who directed the work for the Shropshire Archaeological Society.

page 96 note 38 The excavations have been carried out for the Ministry by Mr. Charles Green who has sent a valuable report.

page 96 note 39 VCH 1, 293 f.

page 96 note 40 JRS XXVI, 251; Norfolk Archaeology XXVI, 1937, 178 ff.Google Scholar

page 96 note 41 According to Mr. B. W. Pearce.

page 97 note 41a Seventy Anglian burials of the same date had been discovered in 1935–6 in the neighbourhood, Norfolk Archaeology, XXVI, 178 ff.

page 97 note 42 The distribution of this ware in East Anglia and its significance will be discussed by J. N. L. Myres in the final report and in the forthcoming ‘Festschrift“ to E. T. Leeds.

page 97 note 43 Vict. Co. Hist. Suffolk I, 283 f.

page 97 note 44 Vict. Co. Hist. Kent III, 15; JRS XXII, 66 ff., and XXXII, 111.

page 97 note 45 The work was carried out by the Norfolk Research Committee. Information from Mr. R. R. Clarke.

page 97 note 46 Maynard, G. in Suffolk Inst. Arch. Proc. XXV, 207Google Scholar.

page 97 note 47 Information from Miss K. M. Richardson, who cut the section.

page 97 note 48 Oswald, Index of Potters' Stamps (1931), 267.

page 97 note 49 Information from M. R. Hull.

page 97 note 50 Information from the Roman and Medieval Excavation Council, which carried out the investigation.

page 97 note 51 Roman London (RCHM, 1928), 35, 127.Google ScholarPubMed

page 98 note 52 Information from Mr. N. Cook; The Times, 7 March, 1952. For earlier finds in this area see Roman London (RCHM, 1928), 118, 128.Google ScholarPubMed

page 98 note 53 Information from the Roman and Medieval London Excavation Council.

page 98 note 54 For earlier finds, see Archaeologia LXIX, 176, nos. 16–18. The pavement resembles those at Silchester (Vict. Co. Hist. Hants. 1, 370, pl. v) and Cotterstock, Northants. (Ibid. Northants, 1, 192, fig. 21.)

page 98 note 55 Information from H. W. Catling, who carried out the excavation.

page 98 note 56 Atkyns, Anc. and Present State of Gloucestershire (1712), 379, hence by Witts, Archaeological Handbook of County of Gloucester (1883), 61. Also a mutilated inscription is built into the parish church (CIL VII, 72a).

page 98 note 57 A small relief in Cirencester Museum has three hooded figures in profile. Another, with the hooded figures shown frontally, is at Housesteads (JRS XXIV, 198, plate VII), and others are mentioned in Bruce, Lapidarium (1875), nos. 492 and 786, where there is a reference to one from ‘Wycombe, near Andoversford’, apparently Witcombe, the site of a Roman villa. The Daglingworth relief, now in the Corinium Museum, was found by the Rev. F. W. Potto Hicks, to whom we are indebted for the photograph and information.

page 98 note 58 Information from Mr. P. Rahtz, the excavator, and Arch. News Letter, May, 1952, with plan. Report to appear in Som. Arch. Soc. Proc.

page 98 note 59 Vict. Co. Hist. Som. 1, 324.

page 98 note 60 The excavation was directed by Mr. C. A. R. Radford for the Somerset Excavation School arranged by Mr. W. A. Seaby (cf. JRS XLI, 136, n. 57), with financial assistance from several bodies.

page 99 note 61 Information from Mr. H. S. Dewar, who has also located the site of a house at Hurcot, Somerton, 100 yards south-east of the position marked on the O.S. 6-in. map, 63 SE; Vict. Co. Hist. Som. I, 321, fig. 80, no. s; 322, no. 35.

page 99 note 62 Information from Mr. L. C. Hayward, the excavator.

page 99 note 63 Devon Exploration Society Proc. II (19331936), 72 ff.Google Scholar

page 99 note 64 Information from Lady Fox.

page 99 note 65 With the assistance of Mr. J. W. Brailsford and Miss Marion Wilson for the Trustees of the British Museum.

page 99 note 66 Crawford and Keiller, Wessex from the Air, 36 ff., pl. 1; excavations by Dawkins, Boyd, Arch. Journ. LVII (1901), 52 ff.Google Scholar

page 99 note 67 Information from Mr. R. A. H. Farrar. For earlier work on the wall see JRS XXIX, 1939, 219.Google Scholar

page 100 note 68 Found by N. H. Field and Poole Grammar School boys. Information from R. H. Farrer. To be reported in Proc. Dorset Nat. Hist. and Arch. Soc. LXXIII (1951).Google Scholar

page 100 note 69 Vict. Co. Hist. Hants. I, 285 ff., fig. 11.

page 100 note 70 Cottrill, F., Ancient Defences of Winchester (City of Winchester Museums and Library Committee, 1952Google Scholar, price 3d.).

page 100 note 71 On behalf of the Ministry of Works. For earlier work and a plan of the site, see D. M. Waterman, ‘Excavations at Clausentum' 1937–8’. Ant. Journ. XXVII (1947), 151 ff.Google Scholar; briefly mentioned in JRS XXVIII, 195; xxx, 179. For group of Claudian pottery, see Waterman, Hants Field Club Papers XVII, 253 ff.

page 100 note 72 cf. Waterman o.c. p. 154, fig. 2.

page 100 note 73 Dated by Waterman as Valentinian, c. A.D. 370 onwards (o.c. p. 161), but further excavation in undisturbed levels on the inside is required and it also needs to be searched for in another position.

page 102 note 74 The Outer Bank and Ditch further to the east are tentatively dated as Gratian or later on slender evidence (Waterman, o.c., p. 153, n. 1 and Proc. Hants Field Club IX, 1, 391), but these are the only obvious defences for the site in the first century, and they should be tested by excavation.

page 102 note 75 Report by Lt.-Col. Meates, Professor J. M. C. Toynbee, and Mr. C. D. P. Nicholson in The Times, 22nd February, 1952.

page 102 note 76 Information from Mr. S. S. Frere, the excavator.

page 102 note 77 F. Jenkins, in Arch. News Letter, April, 1952, 166.

page 102 note 78 Vict. Co. Hist. Kent III, 19 ff.; Jessup, R. F., Antiquity X, 1936, 188Google Scholar, pl. V (pebble foundation).

page 102 note 79 Information from Mr. F. H. Thompson, who was in charge of the work of consolidation for the Ministry of Works. His report will be published in Arch. Cantiana.

page 103 note 80 Information from Mrs. Murray Threipland, F.S.A. For plan of Dover, see Vict. Co. Hist. Kent, III, 42, pl. VIII.

page 103 note 1 When measurements are quoted the width precedes the height.

page 103 note 2 Arch. Journ. LXXXVIII (1931), 291Google Scholar, fig. 8; JRS XXI (1931), 248.Google Scholar

page 103 note 3 The present writer, after inspecting the original, has confirmed the accuracy of Collingwood's drawing. After consultation with Professor I. A. Richmond he prints the full text and interpretation. He reads Vetus (for VIITIḷṢ), ṣanies (after quomodo), and signeficatur (as a mis-spelling of significatur). Vetustas is used in a medical sense of inveterate ulcers by Celsus and Pliny the Elder.

page 104 note 4 Garstang, , Derbs. ASJ XXVI (1914), 194Google Scholar, fig. 7, 4. Cited by Haverfield, , VCH Derbs. 1, 208Google Scholar; note to EE IX, 1107.

page 104 note 5 JRS XLI (1951), 141Google Scholar.

page 104 note 6 Mr. E. Birley and Mr. R. Hogg kindly provided information; see Birley, CW2 LI (1951), 179Google Scholar, with a discussion of the name Vesnius. The stone is now in Carlisle Museum.

page 105 note 7 CIL VII, 1168, EE VII, 1102, IX, p. 636.

page 105 note 8 Arch. Journ. XXXIII (1876), 53.Google Scholar

page 105 note 9 For the name Navio, rather than Anavio, on this milestone see Richmond, and Crawford, , Arch. XCIII (1949), 42.Google Scholar

page 105 note 10 Mr. R. W. P. Cockerton kindly measured the distance on six-inch O.S. maps.

page 105 note 11 Hawkes, C. F. C., Ant. Journ. XIII (1933), 163CrossRefGoogle Scholar, fig 1, pl. XXVI, 1; Collingwood, R. G., JRS XXII (1932), 228.Google Scholar

page 105 note 12 Part of the Beloe collection in Norwich Castle Museum, where Mr. R. Rainbird Clarke kindly pointed it out.

page 105 note 13 Oswald, Potters' Stamps has no parallel; Holder, Altcelt. Sprachschatz, cites several instances of the tribal name.

page 106 note 14 Mr. G. Webster kindly sent details.

page 106 note 15 Oswald, A., Ant. Journ. XIX (1939), 441CrossRefGoogle Scholar, pl. LXXXVII.

page 106 note 16 Seaby, W. A., Birm. Arch. Soc. LXVI (19451946, publ. 1950), 43Google Scholar, pl. XII, 2; examined by the present writer.

page 106 note 17 Dr. D. B. Harden kindly sent details; the present writer has examined it.

page 106 note 18 Kisa, Das Glas im Altertume, 926.

page 106 note 19 Moir, J. R. and Maynard, G., Suffolk Inst. Arch. Proc. XXI (1933), 16, fig. 57.Google Scholar

page 106 note 20 For penicil(lum) le(ne) cf. CIL XIII, III, 10021, 106.

page 107 note 21 Margary, I. D., Ant. Journ. XXXII (1952), 73CrossRefGoogle Scholar, pl. XXIII b, who kindly sent it for inspection. The brick has been presented to the Sussex Archaeological Society, and placed in their museum at Lewes.

page 107 note 22 Arch. Cant. LXIV (1951), 131, pl. 1, 4.Google Scholar

page 107 note 23 (a) CIL VII, 1241, (b) JRS XXVII (1937), 249Google Scholar; Cunnington, M. E., Wilts. Arch. Mag. XLIX (1940), 117Google Scholar. Mr. A. D. Passmore, of Wanborough, kindly submitted for inspection this example in his collection.

page 107 note 24 Mr. D. A. D. Smith kindly submitted the tile for inspection.

page 107 note 25 Mr. R. Howarth kindly sent it from Folkestone Museum for inspection.

page 107 note 26 Mr. W. V. Wade kindly sent the sherd and details; Leeds Phil. Soc. Proc. vii (1952), 17Google Scholar, fig. 4, no. 16.

page 108 note 27 Mr. L. P. Wenham kindly sent details and the sherds.

page 108 note 28 Mr. D. T. D. Clarke kindly made the vessel available.

page 108 note 29 Camb. Arch. Soc. Communications IV (1879), 337Google Scholar; C. Fox, Arch. Camb. Reg., 209. Now in the Lewis Collection at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

page 108 note 30 Mr. R. C. Reid kindly submitted the sherd, which has been placed in Dumfries Burgh Museum.

page 108 note 31 The name Sosimius occurs among Gaulish potters' stamps, but not in Dessau ILS. Sosimios is transliterated from Greek and matched on an Ithacan inscription (CIG 11, 1925, iGoogle ScholarPubMed). It is not surprising to find a Greek name on a jar which had been filled probably in Spain.

page 108 note 32 British Museum, Guide to Roman Britain (1951), 31, fig. 15.

page 108 note 33 Now in Ipswich Museum; Moore, I. E., Suffolk Inst. Arch. Proc. XXIV (1948), 172Google Scholar, fig. 6, item VII.

page 108 note 34 Mr. M. J. Campen kindly submitted it, through Mr. H. Andrews, Curator of Saffron Walden Museum.

page 108 note 35 The cup is now in Wall Museum; the Custodian, Mr. J. W. Brooks, kindly supplied details.

page 109 note 36 Moore, I. E., Suffolk Inst. Arch. Proc. XXII (19341936), 187, 195, fig. 6.Google Scholar