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An antefix type of the Second Augustan Legion from Exeter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2011

Paul T. Bidwell  and
George C. Boon
Paul T. Bidwell
Affiliation:
National Museum of Wales
George C. Boon
Affiliation:
National Museum of Wales
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Britannia , Volume 7 , November 1976 , pp. 278 - 280
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Copyright © Paul T. Bidwell and George C. Boon 1976. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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References

3 S. S. Frere, Britannia: a History of Roman Britain (1967), 75.

4 Current Archaeology iv. 4 (July 1973), 102–10; W. H. Manning, AW No. 13 (1974), 41–2.Google Scholar

5 RIB 330.

6 G. C. Boon, Isca (1972), 20, 123, n. 33. The stamped tile found at Seaton (Haverfield, F., Arch. Journ. xlix (1892), 180–1) is a second- or third-century type; those from Sea Mills—Abone are Hadrianic-Antonine; and both presumably represent maintenance-work on outlying military posts.Google Scholar

7 Appreciable even in the case of the fine earthenware, cf. G. B. Rogers, Poteries sigillees de la Gaule centrale, I: Les motifs non figurés (28e suppl. à Gallia, 1974), 20, giving the shrinkage between mould and product as between 5 and 15%.

8 Isca, 30, figs. 10, 15; JRS xxvii (1937), 224, pl. 26, 1.Google Scholar

9 Remains of about twenty antefixes of ‘face’ type (loc. cit. note 4, 108, fig., similar to a type from Vindonissa) were found on the Exeter site. Caerleon antefixes, Isca, fig. 14; only these two ‘dolphin’ ones are known.

10 Loc. cit. (note 3).

11 Isca, 26–8, 31.

12 Hassall, M. and Rhodes, J., Trans. Bristol & Glos. A.S. xciii (1974), 31–2.Google Scholar

13 R. Forrer, L'Alsace romaine (1935), 33, fig. 3a; cf. J.-J. Hatt, Strasbourg au temps des romains (1953), 23, ‘estampille’, I presume wrongly.

14 Loc. cit. (note 12), 80, fig. 31.