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Roman Britain in 1957
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page 130 note * The account of the discoveries in Wales, Scotland, and North England has been completed by Professor I. A. Richmond.
page 130 note 1 Information from the excavator, Mr. G. C. Boon of the National Museum of Wales on behalf of the Ministry of Works.
page 130 note 2 Information from Mr. A. H. A. Hogg, Secretary of the Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments for Wales and Monmouthshire, who is watching the site. He adds that the whole fort will probably be removed and detailed interim reports will not be printed, but duplicated copies will be deposited for reference in suitable libraries.
page 130 note 3 By Mr. Bevan Evans and Mr. P. Hayes. Information from Mr. Bevan Evans of the Flints. Hist. Soc.
page 130 note 4 Information from Mr. G. D. B. Jones, who undertook the work.
page 130 note 5 Report by the excavator, Mr. Leslie Alcock, in Radnorshire Soc. Trans. 1958. 5 ff.
page 130 note 6 Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies XVII, part 4 (1958); Brycheiniog 1957, 126.
page 131 note 7 Information from G. D. B. Jones.
page 131 note 8 By Dr. Brenda Swinbank on behalf of the Ministry of Works. Information from Mr. Leslie Alcock.
page 131 note 9 Y Cymmrodor 1908–9, 142–151.
page 131 note 10 Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies XVII, (1958), 293–6.
page 131 note 11 Information from Mr. G. C. Boon.
page 132 note 12 Information from Mr. G. C. Boon on behalf of the National Museum of Wales.
page 132 note 13 Excavation by Mr. J. Knight for the Ministry of Works.
page 132 note 14 By Dr. St. Joseph and Mr. A. Maclaren.
page 132 note 15 cf. Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot. lxvii (1932–1933), 243 ff.
page 132 note 16 By Mr. Iain McIvor for the Ministry of Works. All the sites referred to in nn. 11–18 are reported in the Discovery and Excavation: Scotland 1957.
page 132 note 17 By Dr. K. A. Steer.
page 132 note 18 By the Rev. C. H. H. Scobie for the Ministry of Works.
page 132 note 19 By the Rev. C. H. H. Scobie for the Glasgow Arch. Soc.
page 132 note 20 By Miss A. S. Robertson for the Ministry of Works.
page 132 note 21 By Dr. St. Joseph from the air.
page 133 note 22 By Mr. F. Newall.
page 133 note 23 By Messrs. Newall and Black.
page 134 note 24 Cumb. and Westm. Arch, and Antiq. Soc. Trans. LVI, 62–66: for other references to the site, see CW 2 XXXVIII, 157–159; LIV, 32.
page 134 note 25 CW 2 LVI, 18–27 excavated by Prof. Richmond for the Ministry of Works: for earlier excavation see CW 1 XV, 352 ff. and plan, 375. For centurial stones see below p. 152, no. 10.
page 134 note 26 By Mr. M. G. Garrett, for the Durham University Excavation Committee.
page 134 note 27 By the Durham University Excavation Committee.
page 134 note 28 By Mr. C. M. Daniels for the Durham University Excavation Committee.
page 134 note 29 CW 2 LVI, 37–61.
page 135 note 30 By Mr. Bellhouse, R. L. in CW2 LVI, 28–36Google Scholar: an account of their rediscovery and amplification by Dr. Joseph, St. is in JRS XLV, 83Google Scholar, also plate XVI.A detailed account of the road is in CW 2 LIV, 17–27.
page 135 note 31 By Mr. Noel Shaw, Dr. D. J. Smith, and Mr. J. P. Gillam, for the Durham University Excavation Committee.
page 135 note 32 By Mr. M. G. Garrett, for the Ministry of Works.
page 135 note 33 Supervised by Mr. B. R. Hartley for the National Trust.
page 135 note 34 By Mr. B. R. Hartley of the Dept. of Latin, Leeds University. For Mr. Wade's, report see Leeds Philos. Soc. Proc. (Lit. and Hist. Section) VII, part 3, 153–166Google Scholar. For stamped bricks see below, p. 153, no. 27.
page 135 note 35 JRS XLIV, 90.
page 135 note 36 By Mr. I. M. Stead for the Ministry of Works.
page 136 note 37 JRS XLVI, 79 ff., pl. IX, 3.
page 136 note 38 By a class from the Swarthmore Educational Centre under Mr. B. R. Hartley.
page 136 note 39 By Miss A. Maltby.
page 136 note 40 By Mr. F. H. Thompson of the Grosvenor Museum.
page 136 note 41 By Mr. D. F. Petch for the Ministry of Works and the Lincoln Arch. Research Committee. For an inscribed lead fragment see below, p. 153, no. 18.
page 136 note 42 cf. those from Gloucestershire, , JRS XLV, 69Google Scholar.
page 136 note 43 By Mr. L. Iredale.
page 137 note 44 Information from Mr. Graham Webster.
page 137 note 45 By the Coventry and District Archaeological Society. Information from Mr. Graham Webster.
page 137 note 46 Information from Prof. J. M. T. Charlton who dug the site with students from Keele. For a centurial stone, see below, p. 150, no. 4.
page 137 note 47 Great Casterton II, Univ. of Nottingham, 1954.
page 137 note 48 Information from Dr. Philip Corder.
page 138 note 49 Information from Mr. E. Greenfield who supervised the work for the Ministry of Works.
page 138 note 50 Information from Mr. Michael Green who conducted the excavations. cf. Ill. Lond. News 16 Nov. 1957, 842.
page 139 note 51 For earlier finds of kilns etc., here cf. Vict. Co. Hist. Hunts. I, 1926, 226.
page 139 note 52 Excavated by the Peterborough Museum Society under the direction of Mr. B. R. Hartley. Information from him and ‘Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries for 1956’ by the Council of British Archaeology, Group 7.
page 139 note 25a For an air view, see pl. xiv.
page 140 note 53 Information from Mr. E. Greenfield who supervised the work for the Ministry of Works and to whom we are indebted for photographs and plans. For earlier discoveries see Vict. Co. Hist. Hunts. I, 228 ff.
page 140 note 54 Found by Mr. E. S. Standen. Information from Mr. B. R. Hartley.
page 140 note 55 The excavation was directed by Mr. C. W. Green for the Wolverton Archaeological Society. Information from its ‘News Letter’.
page 141 note 56 Information from Mr. Charles Green, who carried out the excavation for the Ministry of Works.
page 141 note 57 Information and photograph from Mr. Brian Blake.
page 141 note 58 Information from Mrs. M. U. Jones, who supervised the work for the Ministry of Works.
page 141 note 59 ‘Wolverton and District Archaeological Society News Letter’ No. 3, January 1958. It includes a list of coins dating from Claudius to Arcadius made by Robert Harris.
page 141 note 60 The work was directed by Mr. John Lunn for the St. Albans and Herts Architect, and Arch. Soc. Information from Dr. I. Anthony.
page 141 note 61 But for the date A.D. 60 rather than A.D. 61 see Syme, R. Tacitus (1958) 391, 763 ffGoogle Scholar.
page 142 note 62 Third Interim Report in Antiqs. Journ. XXXVII, 1 ff. For inscribed objects see below, pp. 152 ff., nos. 15, 17, 20, 21, 35, 36, 39, 40, 43.
page 142 note 63 All these sites are reported in the ‘Bulletin of Archaeological Discoveries’, no. 4, issued by the Council of British Archaeology, Group 7.
page 142 note 64 ibid.
page 142 note 65 Antiqs. Journ. XXXVII, 222.
page 142 note 66 cf. a larger one published by Stanfield and Simpson (fig. 6, 1, COCATUS).
page 142 note 67 Information from Mr. M. R. Hull of Colchester Museum.
page 142 note 68 By boys of Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford. Information from Colchester Museum where the coins were identified.
page 144 note 69 Information from Miss S. A. Butcher, who supervised the excavation for the Ministry of Works for 1, and from the Guildhall Museum, which also supplied the photographs, for nos. 3–6; no. 3a from Prof. W. F. Grimes on behalf of the Roman and Medieval London Excavation Council.
page 144 note 70 Oswald and Price, An introduction to the study of Terra Sigillata (1920), Pl. LXXXIV, 1.
page 144 note 73 Messrs. R. P. Wright and A. G. Woodhead hope to publish the stone, in the Antiqs. Journ. It is now in the Guildhall Museum.
page 144 note 74 Information from Mrs. M. U. Jones, who supervised the excavation for the Ministry of Works.
page 144 note 75 Under the direction of Mr. Graham Webstei for the Cirencester Arch, and Hist. Soc., with financial support from the Ministry of Works and other bodies and persons.
page 146 note 76 Reece, R., Bristol and Glos. Arch. Soc. Trans. LXXV, 203Google Scholar.
page 146 note 77 Excavated by Mr. A. M. ApSimon whose interim report and plan (fig. 18) is published in the Proc. of the Spelæological Soc of Bristol University VIII, 1958, which sponsored the excavation and kindly lent the block.
page 146 note 78 Information from Mr. R. E. Linington, who supervised the excavation. Report forthcoming in the Som. Arch. Soc. Proc.
page 147 note 79 ‘Wells Nat. Hist, and Arch. Soc. 67th and 68th Report with Mendip Nature Research Committee Report’ 1955–56, 11 ff.
page 147 note 80 Report from Mr. L. C. Hayward the director of the excavation for Yeovil School Arch. Society. Brief report in Som. and Dorset N. and Q. XXVII, 80 f.
page 147 note 81 Information from Mr. R. A. H. Farrar. No. 1 was excavated by Mr. H. S. L. Dewar and Mr. R. N. R. Peers, no. 2 by Mr. R. A. H. Farrar for the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments and no. 3 by Mr. N. H. Field.
page 148 note 82 Dorset Nat. Hist, and Arch. Soc. Proc. LXXIX, 106.
page 148 note 83 Information from Mr. F. K. Annable of Devizes Museum, who directed the excavation for the Wilts. Arch. Soc. For the site see Mrs. Cunnington, , Wilts. Arch. Mag. XLV, 1932, 202Google Scholar.
page 148 note 84 Information from Mr. P. A. Rahtz, who supervised the excavation for the Ministry of Works.
page 148 note 85 Information from Mr. G. C. Boon, who directed the excavation for the Silchester Excavation Committee.
page 148 note 86 Report by J. McCulloch in Surrey Advertiser, 28th September, 1957.
page 148 note 87 Information from Mr. R. A. G. Carson, who will describe the find in Num. Chron.; a few of the coins are being retained for the National Collection and the balance has been acquired by Guildford Museum.
page 148 note 88 Dr. Wilson, A. E. in Sussex Arch. Coll. XCIV, 100 ff.Google Scholar; XCV, 116 ff.; Archaeology of the Walls of Chichester (Chichester Papers no. 6, 1957).
page 148 note 89 Mr. Parsons, J. A. in Arch. Cant. LXXI, 240Google Scholar.
page 148 note 90 ibid.
page 149 note 91 Information from Colonel, Lt. Meates, G. W.. For plans see Arch. Cant. LXV, 78Google Scholar; LXVI, 32.
page 149 note 92 Arch. Cant. LXXI, 239, with a full report of the bakery (site A) excavated 1951–52 by W. S. Penn. For an inscription see below, p. 153, no. 16.
page 149 note 93 Information from Mr. R. A. G. Carson. The find will be described and discussed in Num. Chron. It has been acquired in toto by the British Museum.
page 149 note 94 ‘Report of the 29th Season of Work by the Canterbury Excavation Committee’ by S. S. Frere.
page 149 note 95 Jenkins, F., Archaeological News Letter VI (1958), 126Google Scholar.
page 149 note 96 Philp, B. J., Arch. Cant. LXXI, 167 ffGoogle Scholar.
page 150 note 1 When measurements are quoted the width precedes the height.
page 150 note 2 Now in Winchester City Museum. Mr. F. Cottrill kindly sent details and a photograph.
page 150 note 3 Hants FC Proc. XVIII (1954), 319, fig. 1.
page 150 note 4 Dewar, Miles and Smith, , Som. and Dorset NQ XXVII (1956), 107Google Scholar. For the site see JRS XLVII (1957), 222. Now in the Blake Museum, Bridgwater. Mr. T. J. Miles kindly sent a drawing and a squeeze.
page 150 note 5 Mr. M. J. Campen kindly submitted it for study.
page 150 note 6 This field is now no. 4495 on OS 25 in. map, revised edn. 1952. The grid ref. is TL 865191.
page 150 note 7 A substantial part of the text was deciphered by Professor I. A. Richmond and the present writer; the latter has made the drawing (fig. 20). Much is also due to Professor E. G. Turner and Mr. N. E. Collinge, whose aid is gratefully acknowledged.
page 150 note 8 mulrer: for mulier. mascel: variant for masculus condemned by Probus (inst. artium IV, 102, 13), but used in Itala, lev. 6, 29 (see Thes. LL. s.v.). 4, 5 exesuerit: this form seems to be unmatched, but may be a solecism influenced by the future participle exesurus or the desiderative verb -esurio.
page 150 note 9 Excavated by the University College of North Staffordshire; Professor J. M. T. Charlton kindly sent details and photographs. For the site see above, P. 137.
page 151 note 10 From a squeeze and photograph Mr. N. E. Collinge proposed to fill the remaining gaps thus: l. 4 [HOC]; ll. 4, 5 MIN[VS] E[STE] [D]I VVA, noting that transposition of vita and felices would produce a normal caesura; ll. 5, 6 PROHIBENT VBI TA[R]TAR(A) ADITIS; l. 7 SI[DVS], citing Lewis and Short s.v. sidus II E for sidus as the source of life's portion.
page 151 note 11 Now in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. Mr. G. C. Boon kindly sent a photograph, squeeze, and details. Dr. F. J. North kindly provided a geological report.
page 151 note 12 Dr. G. M. Trevelyan, O.M., kindly granted access; drawn by the present writer in 1947. Bruce (Lap. Sept. 566) records at Hallington Hall an uninscribed altar from the collection which Archdeacon Singleton had once assembled at Elsdon Rectory, including items from High Rochester and Risingham. As l. 6 mentions Vangiones (and not Vardulli), the altar may be assigned to Risingham.
page 151 note 13 Presented to the Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle upon Tyne, by Mr. R. P. Ramshaw; drawn by the present writer. Mr. G. Jobey kindly provided details and photographs; see AA 4 XXXVI (1958) forthcoming.
page 151 note 14 See Simpson, and Richmond, , AA4 XIX (1941), 7Google Scholar, fig. 1.
page 152 note 15 Richmond, , CW2 LVI (1956), 26Google Scholar, pl. II, 1; fig. 2.
page 152 note 16 Mr. C. Anderson kindly provided the measurements of distance, Professor E. Birley information about (b), and Mr. J. P. Gillam information about (a)—(h). The present writer has drawn each item. For the site see above, p. 134.
page 152 note 17 For Fenius as a variant of Faenius see CIL VI, 17664.
page 152 note 18 A centurial stone, IVLI PRI[.., was found near milecastle 8 (CIL VII, 502g).
page 152 note 19 Atkinson, D., JRS XLVII (1957), 196Google Scholar, fig. 7, with full discussion of the names of the witnesses. Now in the Corinium Museum, Cirencester; seen by the present writer.
page 152 note 20 Grid ref. SE 937305; the site is 2½ miles north of Brough-on-Humber, 1,000 yds. NE of the Roman road (Ermine Street), and a mile SE of South Cave, where the pig EE IX, 1265, was found. Now on loan in Hull Museum; Mr. J. B. Thirsk kindly supplied a squeeze, rubbings, and details.
page 152 note 21 Chester ASJ 2 XLIII (1956), 47, fig. 2. Now in the Grosvenor Museum, Chester.
page 152 note 22 Found in the excavations conducted by Birmingham University, and destined for Rowley's House Museum, Shrewsbury. Mr. G. Webster kindly sent it for study. The name seems to be unmatched in Willers, Roemischen Bronzeeimer or Neue Untersuchungen, or Radnoti Diss. Pann. ser. 2, no. 6.
page 152 note 23 Mr. S. S. Frere kindly sent it through Miss D. Charlesworth. For a stamp, MERCO·F, which, however, is circular, see CIL XII, 5696, 11; Kisa III, p. 964, no. 277. For the site see above, p. 141.
page 153 note 24 On behalf of Gravesend Historical Society Miss D. Charlesworth kindly sent it, observing that this type of bowl was imported from the Rhineland in the late second and early third century; see Arch. Cant. LXXI, 239, and see above, p. 149.
page 153 note 25 Mr. S. S. Frere kindly sent it through Miss D. Charlesworth, who dates it within 160–250, and says that similar bowls have a fish and engraved inscription (as at Silchester and Chesters), or ‘Bibamus’ and gladiatorial scenes (BJ CXVIII (1909), pl. XXV).
page 153 note 26 Now in Lincoln Museum; Mr. D. F. Petch kindly sent it for study. For the site see above, p. 136.
page 153 note 27 Now in Guildhall Museum; Mr. N. C. Cook kindly made it available.
page 153 note 28 Mr. S. S. Frere and Miss J. Liversidge kindly provided a photograph, rubbings, and details.
page 153 note 29 Mr. S. S. Frere kindly submitted it.
page 153 note 30 Mr. L. P. Wenham kindly submitted these items. For the site see above, pp. 135 f.
page 153 note 31 Now in the Grosvenor Museum. Mr. F. H. Thompson kindly sent it for study, cf. JRS XLVII, 207 f.
page 153 note 32 Now in the possession of Mr. F. Greenway, who kindly supplied details and squeezes. For the type see CIL VII, 1235 f.; RCHM Roman London 176, no. 55a.
page 153 note 33 Presented to Guildhall Museum by Mr. F. Greenway. For the type see RCHM l. c., no. 55g.
page 153 note 34 Grid ref. SO 869169. Now in Gloucester City Museum; Mr. J. N. Taylor kindly sent it for study. For these stamps see JRS XLV (1955), 68.
page 153 note 35 See EE VII, 1136, found in 1881 in Lincoln. Mr. D. F. Petch kindly sent a squeeze and photograph.
page 153 note 36 The excavation was undertaken for the Lincoln Archaeological Research Committee and H.M. Ministry of Works by Mr. D. F. Petch. He has kindly provided squeezes and a detailed report, which is here summarized. The tiles are in Lincoln Museum. For the site, see above, p. 136. For similar terminal letters on a series from Gloucestershire see Mrs. Clifford, , JRS XLV (1955), 69Google Scholar.
page 154 note 37 CIL VII, 1251 (Lincoln) records L·V·L·F, seen by Huebner in the British Museum. This stamp, on inspection, has no clear stops, and letter 4 has an irregular stroke at the foot, which makes it possible to interpret it as E.
page 154 note 38 Mr. B. R. Hartley kindly gave details and submitted the stamps.
page 154 note 39 Now in Coventry Museum. Mr. B. Stanley kindly sent details, a drawing, and a squeeze. For the site the grid reference is SP 345748. As this tile was included in a box of pottery from the Baginton pit and covered with the same sandy deposit, it seems very probable that it is a local find and has not been transferred in modern times from Gloucester. For the Hucclecote example see JRS XLV (1955), 71, pl. XV, 14(a).
page 154 note 40 Now in Warwick Museum. Mr. B. Stanley kindly sent it for study and gave full details. For the kiln see Sanders, and Phelps, , B'ham. Arch. Soc. Trans. L (1924), 54Google Scholar.
page 154 note 41 Mr. J. C. McCulloch kindly submitted it and provided a photograph. For a Roman tilery at Wykehurst Farm, Cranleigh, ⅓ mile to the south, see Surrey AC XLV (1937), 77.
page 154 note 42 Mr. G. Webster kindly submitted it. For the site see above, pp. 144 f.
page 154 note 43 Now in Lincoln Museum; Mr. D. F. Petch kindly sent it for drawing.
page 154 note 44 Mr. S. S. Frere kindly submitted this item and nos. 36, 39, 40, and 43 (below).
page 154 note 45 Benseler-Pape, Eigennamen does not give this name.
page 154 note 46 Mr. D. F. Petch kindly reported it.
page 154 note 47 Now in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. The finder, Mr. J. K. Knight, kindly sent it for study.
page 155 note 48 Now in Guildhall Museum.
page 155 note 49 Mr. M. J. Campen kindly sent it and a photograph.
page 155 note 50 Mr. W. J. Williams kindly submitted it.
page 155 note 51 CIL VII, 324; JRS XVIII (1928), 212.
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