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Leather found in Mediobogdum, the Roman fort of Hardknott

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2011

Dorothy Charlesworth  and
J. H. Thornton
Dorothy Charlesworth
Affiliation:
Department of the Environment, 23 Savile Row, London W.I
J. H. Thornton
Affiliation:
Department of the Environment, 23 Savile Row, London W.I
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Mediobogdum is founded on comparatively level ground half-way down the west side of Hardknott pass, above the 800 ft. contour. It is an extremely wet site, peat having formed up to o·60 m thick in hollows between the rock outcrops or where collapsed walling has blocked the natural drainage. It was by chance in digging a drain through the retentura to improve the upper part of the site behind the granaries that the first piece of leather was found in 1965. This is thought to be part of a soldier's jerkin.

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Britannia , Volume 4 , November 1973 , pp. 141 - 152
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Copyright © Dorothy Charlesworth and J. H. Thornton 1973. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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References

1 Antiq. Journ. xlviii (1968), 301–2: not re-published here.

2 This is the term generally applied in modern literature to distinguish this type of Roman footwear. In modern parlance ‘sandal’ would apply, but it is deliberately avoided in this context because of confusion with the Roman sandal (solea).

3 Macdonald, G. and Park, A., The Roman forts on Bar Hill, Dumbartonshire (1906), 101 fGoogle Scholar. I am indebted to Dr. A. Robertson for allowing me access to the collection.

4 CW 2 lxv (1965), 86Google Scholar (Burkett, M. E., ‘Recent discoveries at Ambleside’, pls. II-IV).Google Scholar

5 Curle, J., A Roman frontier post and its people (1911), 149 f.Google Scholar

6 Saalburg Jahrbuch xxii (1965)Google Scholar (A. L. Busch, ‘Die romerzeitlichen Schuh- und Lederfunde der Kastelle Saalburg, Zugmantel und Kleiner Feldberg’).

7 R. E. M., and Wheeler, T. V., Report on the excavation … in Lydney Park, Gloucestershire (1932), 87, fig. 21, 105.Google Scholar

8 I am indebted to Mr. R. Merrifield and the staff of the Guildhall Museum for allowing me access to the collection and for the photograph (PL. XXIII).

9 van Waateringe, W. Groenman, Romeins Lederwerk uit Valkenburg Z.H. (1967).Google Scholar

10 Ibid., pp. 52-72, figs. 8-17.

11 CW 2 xxxiv (1934), 62Google Scholar (I. A. Richmond and J. McIntyre, ‘Tents of the Roman Army’).

12 JRS lv (1965), 222, 7Google Scholar and CW 2 lxv (1965), 169Google Scholar (R. P. Wright, ‘A Hadrianic building inscription …’).