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Roman Britain in 1953

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page 83 note 1 JRS XIX, 182 (2), pl. VII; Arch. Camb. 1931, 156–7.

page 83 note 2 Report by Dr. Nash-Williams in Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies XV, 1953, 239 ff., to the Editor of which we are indebted for the loan of the block used in fig. 7.

page 86 note 3 Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot. LXXIII, 140–2.

page 86 note 4 W. A. Anderson in ‘Eighth Report of the Scottish Regional Group of the Council of British Archaeology, 1953’.

page 86 note 5 Sir George Macdonald, The Antonine Wall in Scotland, 2nd ed. 24, 152 f., pl. 24.

page 86 note 6 Miss A. S. Robertson in ‘Eighth Report of the Scottish Regional Group of the Council of British Archaeology, 1953’.

page 86 note 7 Report by Mr. Frank Newall in the ‘Eighth Report of the Scottish Regional Group of the Council of British Archaeology, 1953’.

page 86 note 8 Report by Miss Anne Robertson, the excavator, in the Glasgow Herald of 13th November, 1953, to the Editor of which we are indebted for the block shown in fig. 10.

page 87 note 9 Report by Mr. J. S. Clarke in the ‘Eighth Report of the Scottish Regional Group of the Council of British Archaeology, 1953’.

page 87 note 10 Report by the excavators, Dr. K. A. Steer and Mr. R. W. Feachem in the ‘Eighth Report of the Scottish Regional Group of the Council of British Archaeology, 1953’.

page 88 note 11 Cumb. and Westm. Arch. Soc. Trans., ser. 1, XV, 353. For an inscribed altar, see below, p. 105, no. 16.

page 88 note 12 Information from Mr. Robert Hogg, of Tullie House Museum. A full report of the above two excavations will be published in the Cumb. and Westm. Ant. and Arch. Soc. Trans. LIV.

page 88 note 13 Information from Mr. F. Gerald Simpson, C.B.E., who carried out the work.

page 88 note 14 CIL VII, 541–4.

page 88 note 15 On behalf of the Durham University Excavation Committee, the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne and the South Shields Archaeological Society. We are indebted to Mr. Gillam for the plan.

page 88 note 16 A report is to appear in Archaeologia Aeliana, now in the press. For two centurial stones, see below p. 105, no. 15.

page 89 note 17 Information from Professor I. A. Richmond.

page 89 note 18 Information from Mr. E. J. W. Hildyard, who, with the late Lt.-Col. North, carried out the excavations. For inscriptions, see below, p. 104, nos. 7, 8.

page 89 note 19 Information from the excavators, Mr. Graham Webster and Mr. Brian Hartley.

page 90 note 20 Information from Mr. W. V. Wade, who carried out the work as a Training School for Leeds University, and to him we are indebted for the drawing (fig.12). A report will appear in Leeds Philos. Soc.Proc. (Lit. and Hist. Section) VII, part 3. For the earlier excavations see Droop, ‘Excavations at Brough by Bainbridge in 1931,’ ibid. III, 1932, 20 f.

page 90 note 21 Information from Mr. L. P. Wenham, who carried out the excavation for the Ministry of Works.

page 90 note 22 For kilns of similar type, cf. Hayes, Whitley, and Corder, The Roman Pottery at Norton, East Yorks. (Roman Malton and District Report no. 7, 1950).

page 90 note 22a Corder, Roman Pottery at Throlam (Roman Malton and District Report no. 3, 1930).

page 90 note 23 The mechanical digger was carefully watched and, where possible, excavation carried out under the direction of Mr. F. K. Annable and Mr. E. F. Gilmour, Curator of Doncaster Museum, on behalf of the Ministry of Works (to whom we are indebted for photographs and information). A preliminary report with map and illustrations is published in the Yorks Archaeological Journal, xxxviii, 403 ff. The pottery is kept in Doncaster Museum, with at least one kiln and models of others.

page 91 note 24 Information from Mr. R. H. Hayes, who, with Mr. J. G. Rutter, of Scarborough Museum, carried out the excavation for the Scarborough Museum and the Scarborough and District Archaeological Society. The pottery is now all in the Scarborough Museum and a report will be published by Mr. Rutter. For the pottery, see Hayes, Whitley, and Corder, The Roman Pottery at Norton, East Yorkshire (Roman Malton and District Report, no. 7, 1950).

page 91 note 25 Arch. Journ. CIII, 33 ff., fig. 5.

page 92 note 26 ibid. 29.

page 92 note 27 ibid., 44.

page 92 note 28 cf. Corbridge, Arch. Ael. 3rd ser., IV, 272 ff.; 4th ser., XXVIII, 158 ff. Information from Mr. F. H. Thompson, Field Secretary of the Lincoln Archaeological Research Committee, to whom also we are indebted for the photographs shown on plate VII.

page 92 note 29 Information from Mr. F. H. Thompson and Dr. C. H. V. Sutherland, who is examining the coins.

page 92 note 30 W. Fowler, Mosaic Pavements of Great Britain, 1804, nos. 1 and 5. Information from Mr. Harold Dudley, of Scunthorpe Museum.

page 92 note 31 A full report on the dwelling house and defences is published in The Roman Town and Villa at Great Casterton, Rutland. Second Interim Report for the years 1951–1953, edited by Philip Corder, published by the University of Nottingham (pp. IV + 47 with pls. XIII, and 13 text-figs.), 1954, to the Editor of which we are indebted for fig. 14.

page 93 note 32 Information from Dr. K. M. Kenyon, who directed the archaeological training school organized by the Extra-Mural Department of the University of Birmingham.

page 93 note 33 Information from Dr. D. J. Smith.

page 95 note 34 The owners, Messrs. Stewarts and Lloyds Minerals, financed the excavation carried out under the auspices of the Ministry of Works and supervised by Dr. Smith, D. J. and Mr. Tobias, F. W.. For the early plan and references see VCH, Northants I, 193, fig. 22Google Scholar. Information from Dr. D. J. Smith, who kindly sent the plan (fig. 15). He compares the sequence and chronology with that of the Roman house at Ditchley, Oxon, . See Oxoniensia I, 1936, 24 ffGoogle Scholar.

page 95 note 35 A report by Mr. Brian Bunch, the excavator, and Dr. Philip Corder will appear in Ant. Journ. XXXIV; cf. also above, p. 90 (Cantley).

page 96 note 36 The excavation was carried out by the Oxford University Archaeological Society under the direction of Miss Eve Rutter. Ashmolean Museum Report to the Visitors, 1953, p. 16. A report will be published in Oxoniensia.

page 96 note 37 Information from Mr. John Holmes, who continued to keep a record and survey of many Roman sites in East Herts. Among them he noted in a field on Moor Hall farm, east of Thorley Hall, rectangular soil marks with darker patches from hearths at their centre, giving the impression of domestic timber buildings at the west end of two long sheds; fourth-century potsherds and roof tiles were picked up on the surface.

page 96 note 38 Information from Mr. William Frend. The discoveries will be published in the Cambridge Ant. Soc. Proc.

page 96 note 39 Information from Mr. R. Rainbird Clarke.

page 97 note 40 Information from Mr. Clarke, R. R.. For the statuette see Vic. Co. Hist. Norfolk I, 291Google Scholar, fig. 6, and references there given.

page 97 note 41 Information from Mr. Charles Green, who is carrying out the work for the Ministry of Works.

page 97 note 42 Information from Lady Briscoe. Mr. Hull, to whom we are indebted for the drawing, compares the brooch to an example from Silchester, : see Archaeologia XCII, 143, no. 5, fig. 7Google Scholar; cf. also for the type Hawkes and Hull, Camulodunum (Soc. Ant. Research Rep. XIV, 1947), 316, pl. XCIV, 80–3.

page 97 note 43 In 1931 a length of 30 ft. of the same platform, but 28 ft. wide, was excavated: JRS XXII, 212 (3a).

page 97 note 44 In 1931 a large tiled drain, 3 ft. wide, probably later than J, had been found 13½ ft. from the platform.

page 99 note 45 Urn burials from Shoe Lane just to the north, are now in the London Museum. The Roman building is to be preserved to view, with the remains of the early churches, beneath the reconstructed church.

page 99 note 45a The excavation of the temple, which proved it to be a Mithraeum, was only completed in the latter half of 1954 and will therefore be reported fully in ‘Roman Britain in 1954’.

page 99 note 46 The view assumed hitherto is that it ran along the line of Walbrook Street, cf. e.g. Roman London (Royal Comm. Hist. Mons.). For a motto-beaker from this site see below, p. no, no. 46.

page 99 note 47 The work was carried out by the City Engineer, Mr. F. J. Forty, in consultation with the Ministry of Works.

page 99 note 48 Information from Mr. P. A. Rahtz and Mr. G. C. Boon, who with Mr. E. Greenfield is examining the area for the Ministry of Works before the construction of the Stoke Chew Reservoir, which is to flood 1,200 acres.

page 100 note 49 Information from Mr. C. A. Ralegh Radford, whose pamphlet is noted below (p. 164). The pavement was presented to Taunton Museum by the owners of the land.

page 100 note 50 Information from Hayward, L. C.. Report to be published in Somerset and Dorset N. and Q. XXVI, September, 1954Google Scholar. For the burials see Som. Arch. Soc. Proc. XL (1894), II, 272Google Scholar, and Arch.Journ. II, 209.

page 100 note 51 Information from Lady Fox, who directed the work on behalf of the Ancient Monuments In spectorate of the Ministry of Works. A short report will be published in Devon Arch. Explor. Soc. Proc.

page 100 note 52 Information from Mr. R. A. H. Farrar; the work was directed by Mr. N. H. Field.

page 101 note 53 VCH Hants, I, 285 ff.

page 101 note 54 The City Council financed the excavation, which was under the supervision of Mr. F. Cottrill, Curator of the City Museum, and directed by Miss M. A. Bennet-Clark. A report by Miss Bennet-Clark, is published in Hants Field Club and Arch. Soc. Proc. 18, 1954, 314Google Scholar ff. For a fragment of an inscribed glass bottle, see below, p. 107 f., no. 27.

page 102 note 55 Information from the excavator, Mr. R. F. Jessup, who generously provided photographs and plans. His full report will appear in Archaeologia Cantiana for 1954. For the 1844 excavation and also for the villa on the riverside close by, see references in VCH Kent III, 1932, 168Google Scholar. A similar iron stool, but more complete, is in the Musée Calvet, Avignon.

page 103 note 56 Reports of the excavations by Mr. Sheppard Frere issued by the Canterbury Excavations Committee.

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

page 103 note 2 His Grace the Duke of Wellington kindly lent it from his collection at Stratfield Saye House to Reading Museum; Mr. Boon kindly showed it to the present writer.

page 103 note 3 Miss J. R. Kirk kindly submitted the fragment.

page 103 note 4 Mr. J. B. Roughead, mason for H.M. Ministry of Works, kindly pointed it out and gave details.

page 103 note 5 CIL VII, 143 a; Gresham AC XCIII (1938), 205, fig. 3.

page 103 note 6 CIL VII, 143 c.

page 103 note 7 Watkin Rn. Lanes. 169; Collingwood, JRS XIV (1924), 248, no. 23Google Scholar.

page 104 note 8 The late Lt.-Col. O. H. North kindly showed it to the writer, who has drawn it to the writer, who has drawn it.

page 104 note 9 Excavated by Lt.-Col. O. H. North, who kindly showed it to the writer.

page 104 note 10 CIL VII, 540, Blackgate Museum Cat. 186.

page 104 note 11 L. P. Wenham, Yorks. Archit. and York Arch. Soc. Rep. (1952/3) 18, quoting Drake in York Courant, 29th June, 1742.

page 104 note 12 See RCHM Westmorland 72, pl. 3: the altar on the left, or east, side has no extant lettering. Access was kindly granted on behalf of Mrs. Cresswell.

page 104 note 13 Miss Fair, M. C. (CW 2 XLVIII (1948), 220Google Scholar) kindly supplied her rough sketch and has informed the writer that the fragment was temporarily buried by her but soon afterwards some unauthorized person removed it, so that it is now lost.

page 105 note 14 CIL VII, 370, addit. p. 308. Camden ed. 2 (1587), 524, ed. 5 (1600), 695, with figures. Gruter (1707), 1017, 7. Stukeley, It. Cur. II, 49, pl. 70Google Scholar. Horsley 281 Cumb. LXVIII, pref. p.XXII. Bruce LS 874.

page 105 note 15 The main readings of ll. 10, 11 are:—

DOMOS·AEDES ∣ DECOR Camden ed. 2, DOMOS·ETEDS ∣ DECVR ed. 5;

DOMO[SITIFI] conjectured by Gudius in Gruter, Huebner.

DOMOSƎED ∣ DECVRESTIT Stukeley; DOMOS ET AED ∣ DECVR[ Horsley;

DOMO …..∣ D … Bruce.

page 105 note 16 CW 2 LII (1952), 185Google Scholar.

page 105 note 17 EE IX, 1226. Cat. (ed. I)no. 80, (ed. 2) no. 47.

page 105 note 18 West Guide to the Lakes (ed. 1,1778), 148; (ed. 3, 1784) 142, note.

page 105 note 19 Mr. J. P. Gillam kindly provided details, and made the stone available.

page 105 note 20 EE VII, 1095, IX, p. 632.

page 106 note 21 Ant. Jour. IV (1924), 106, fig. 4.

page 106 note 22 Arch. Jour. XLVII (1890), 232; EE IX, p. 632.

page 106 note 23 EE VII, 1099, BM Guide (1922 edn.), 24, figs. 12, 13.

page 106 note 24 PSA 2 IX (1883), 263.

page 106 note 25 AA 2 IX (1883), 221.

page 106 note 26 This milestone had not been brought out of its war-time storage before the present writer compiled his appendix on milestones in Wales for Dr. V. E. Nash-Williams' The Roman frontier in Wales (1953); this detail for dating should be added to that account.

page 106 note 27 Deposited in the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, by Lord Barnard. Examined by the present writer, to whom Mr. E. Birley and Mr. T. Wake kindly gave information.

page 106 note 28 Presented in 1938 by Lord Harlech to the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff.

page 106 note 29 Now in Rapallo House Museum, Llandudno, by gift of Mrs. Bostock.

page 106 note 30 Now item 793 of the Montague collection in Exeter Museum.

page 106 note 31 Found by Surgeon-Commander P. H. K. Gray, R.N., who kindly sent it to the present writer for study and supplied details of the discoveries in the area.

page 106 note 32 JRS XLIII (1953), 127.

page 106 note 33 See Brit. Num. Jour. forthcoming.

page 107 note 34 The writer has shown the dome to Miss M. V. Taylor, Professor Jocelyn Toynbee, Professor I. A. Richmond, and Dr. C. H. V. Sutherland, who are in substantial agreement with the views here propounded.

page 107 note 35 James, Arch.Comb. (1906), 208, gives no mention of the inscriptions. Now in Cyfarthfa Castle Museum, Merthyr Tydfil, where the Curator, Miss M. S. Taylor, kindly made them available.

page 107 note 38 Arch. LVIII (1902), 32. Mr. G. C. Boon first noticed the graffito and kindly showed it to the present writer.

page 107 note 37 Now in London Museum. London in Roman Times, fig. 2, I; p. 119.

page 107 note 38 Now in Winchester City Museum; Mr. F. Cottrill kindly made the sherd available. Miss Bennet-Clark, M. A., Hants Field Club Proc. XVIII (1954), 322, fig. III, 5Google Scholar.

page 108 note 39 Arch. LII (1891), 10. It appears to be unpublished; Mr. G. C. Boon kindly pointed it out.

page 108 note 40 Deciphered by Professor I. A. Richmond, who has presented it to the British Museum, where the present writer has examined it. See Richmond, Ant. Jour. XXXIII (1953), 206Google Scholar, fig. 1, pl. XXVII, who translates the text and discusses the Celtic names, the contents of the text, and the date of the writing.

page 108 note 41 Professor Richmond's line-block in Ant. Jour. is here reproduced by the courtesy of the Editor.

page 108 note 42 CIL VIII, 11861 (Makter).

page 108 note 43 Mr. L. P. Wenham kindly provided details and on Mr. Robinson's behalf lent the stamp for examination.

page 109 note 44 Found by Master Adrian Allen, of Stanwix, in whose possession it remains; Mr. R. Hogg kindly submitted it.

page 109 note 45 Now in the Grosvenor Museum, Chester; Mr. G. Webster kindly sent casts and full details. Seen by the present writer.

page 109 note 46 Mr. L. V. Grinsell kindly sent information to the writer.

page 109 note 47 Atkinson, Wroxeter 195, pl. 45a.

page 109 note 48 By the courtesy of Lloyd's the writer examined the object, and Mr. N. C. Cook kindly provided details.

page 109 note 49 Now in the Grosvenor Museum; Mr. G. Webster kindly sent it for examination.

page 109 note 50 Now in Reading Museum; Mr. G. C. Boon kindly showed it to the writer.

page 109 note 51 Mr. N. C. Cook kindly showed it to the writer; for the site see RCHM Roman London 125.

page 109 note 52 Now in Canterbury Museum, where the present writer has examined the bowl. Whiting and Mead, Arch. Cant. XL (1928), 74Google Scholar, fig. on p. 73, no. 746. Ant. Jour. VII (1927), 321Google Scholar, with 2 figs, on p. 322. Previous writers wrongly read it as DN.

page 110 note 53 Now in Guildhall Museum; for the site see RCHM Roman London 136.

page 110 note 54 Drawn by the writer. The only likely name seems to be Trosius, of which Holder gives several instances.

page 110 note 55 Now in Leicester Museum; Mr. D. T-D. Clarke kindly submitted it.

page 110 note 56 Now in Guildhall Museum.

page 110 note 57 See Holder s.v.

page 110 note 58 By the courtesy of Lloyd's the writer examined the amphor a at the instance of Mr. N. C. Cook.

page 110 note 59 Mr. Moray-Williams, A. kindly submitted the sherd to the writer. For the site see Bristol and Glos. AST LXIX (1950), 199Google Scholar.

page 110 note 60 Now in Guildhall Museum, where the present writer has drawn it. Professor J. Toynbee, M. C. kindly suggested this reading, as in CIL XIII, 10018, 188Google Scholar (Trier).

page 110 note 61 Now in Llandrindod Wells Museum, where Mr. C. W. Newman kindly showed it to the writer. See A. Camb. (1911), 120, 149, with plate; RCAM Radnor. no. 112b.

page 110 note 62 Mr. D. T-D. Clarke kindly sent the sherd from Leicester Museum for inspection.

page 111 note 63 Now in Guildhall Museum.

page 111 note 64 note Now in Reading Museum; Mr. G. C. Boon kindly showed it to the writer.

page 111 note 65 Excavated on behalf of H.M. Ministry of Works by Mr. R. R. Inskeep, who kindly sent the vessels for drawing.

page 111 note 66 CIL VII, 144, 145, 1339 a; EE VII, 852, 853 IX, 1024.

page 111 note 67 CIL VII, 1154, 1155.