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A Roman brooch from the Outer Hebrides, with notes on others of its type

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

K. M. Richardson
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In 1956 excavations were carried out by the Ministry of Works in Ben Becula and South Uist, Outer Hebrides, on sites lying within the area of the projected Rocket Range. Not long after the end of the season, one of the workmen who had been engaged on the excavations handed in a fibula said to have been found when filling in (fig. 1, 1, and pl. XXXVIb). Although the site from which it was recovered could not be ascertained, it seems not unlikely that this was one of those examined in 1956. The brooch was sent to the British Museum Research Laboratory for examination and the following technical report on the metals of which it is composed and its craftsmanship is of particular interest.

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 40 , Issue 3-4 , October 1960 , pp. 200 - 213
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1960

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page 200 note 1 The writer is indebted to the Ministry of Works, Edinburgh, for permission to publish this brooch.

page 200 note 2 It is noteworthy that a brooch of related type, Collingwood Group S iii, was found in 1951 during the excavation of the Kilpheder wheel-house at the southern end of South Uist. See Lethbridge, T. C., P.P.S. xviii (1952), 188, fig. 4, 1Google Scholar.

page 200 note 3 Thanks are due to Mr. H. Maryon and Mr. R. Organ for the work carried out on this brooch.

page 202 note 1 Collingwood, R. G., The Archaeology of Roman Britain (1930), 255, fig. 62, 64Google Scholar.

page 202 note 2 The sincere thanks of the writer are due to those curators who have sent information on brooches from their museums, to Mr. M. R. Hull for kindly lending his notes on this series, and to Mr. E. J. W. Hildyard, F.S.A., the British Museum, the Guildhall Museum, and the Shrewsbury Museum for permission to illustrate brooches from their collections.

page 202 note 3 A comparative analysis of features will be found on p. 213.

page 204 note 1 See Stockstadt, Kastell, O.R.L. xxxiii (1910), fig. 7, 20,Google Scholar described as a ‘Scharnierfibel’, a hinge brooch, which has a penannular foot comparable to the Brough-under-Stainmore brooch, fig. 2, 9.

page 205 note 1 The head-stud brooch has a cross-piece at the head but there is a curious brooch from the Roman Villa at Ditchley, Oxon., which combines a setting for a head-stud, a trumpet head, and foot with cup setting, Oxoniensia, i (1935), 55, pl. IX, 1.

page 205 note 2 Roach Smith Collection, 56/7–1/974.

page 205 note 3 Guide to the Antiquities of Roman Britain, British Museum, 1951, fig. 9, 17 and 18, with coins dated to A.D. 139.

page 205 note 4 Wheeler, R. E. M., Lydney Park, Report IX, Research Comm. Soc. Ants. London, 1932, fig. 12, 17.Google Scholar

page 205 note 5 P.S.A.S. l (1915-16), 97, fig. 22, 4 and 5.

page 205 note 6 Ibid., fig. 22, 1, and Collingwood, op. cit., p. 253.

page 205 note 7 P.S.A.S. lxxxix (1955–6), 155.

page 205 note 8 Ibid. xlix (1914–15), 167, fig. 23, 1, Traprain.

page 206 note 1 Axial bar and loop, brooch from Kingsholm, Glos., Guide to the Antiquities of Roman Britain, fig. 9, 15; loop and collar cast in one, Traprain, P.S.A.S. lv (1920–1), 153, fig. 12, 1.

page 206 note 2 Ibid, xlix (1914–15), 167, fig. 23, 7.

page 206 note 3 Ibid, lxxxix (1955–6), 121.

page 213 note 1 This brooch was included when this paper was in page and hence will not be found in the distribution map or the Comparative Analysis table. Full details, other than from the drawing, were not obtainable, as, owing to the death of the excavator, only part of the material from the site has been lodged in Worcester Museum.