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Roman Britain in 1948

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References

1 Nash-Williams, V. E. reporting Dunning, G. C. in Bulletin of Board of Celtic Studies 13 (1948), 56 ffGoogle Scholar.; Arch. Cambrensis c, 1948, 93Google Scholar. A new plan of the town in two colours is published in A Hundred Years of Welsh Archaeology (Cambrian Arch. Assoc. Centenary Volume (1846–1946) 1949) 92Google Scholar, pl. v

2 For the Glasgow Archaeological Society by Mr. W. A. Anderson. The figures in brackets which occur throughout this section refer to the national grid numbers in the New Popular Edition of the 1-inch O.S. map.

3 It is now in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow. Information from Miss Anne Robertson, the excavator.

4 Information from Dr. St. Joseph who carried out the work for the Ministry of Works. A report will be published in the Glasgow Arch. Soc. Trans.

5 Trans. Dumfriesshire and Galloway N.H. and Antiq. Soc.3 xxv, 10 ff.Google Scholar, XXVI, 133 ff.

6 The work was carried out by Mr. A. E. Truckell for the Dumfriesshire and Galloway N.H. and Antiq. Soc.

7 The work was undertaken for the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.

8 Report sent by Dr. I. A. Richmond.

9 Cf. Collingwood, R. G., Archaeologia LXXI, 1921, 1 ff.CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and Cumb. and Westm. Arch. Soc. Trans. NS XXXVIII, 1928, 320–2Google Scholar. Cf. also ibid OS xn, 375, and for road JRS XXXVII, 168 f.

10 Richmond, I. A., Arch.Journ. 89, 1933, 17 ff.Google Scholar

11 Yorks. Arch. Journ. XXXVII, 1949, 236 f.Google Scholar

12 Information from Mr. Waterman, D. M.; cf. JRS xv, 187 ff.Google Scholar, 193; XVIII, 76 ff.

13 Yorks. Arch. Journ. XXXVII, 1949, 235 f.Google Scholar Corder, P., Roman Pottery at Crambeck, 1928, 32 f., pl. 4Google Scholar. The pottery is in Malton Museum. Information from Sir E. N. Whitley.

14 R. A. G. Carson, Num. Chron. 1948, 78 ff. The pot and coins are in Sheffield Museum, except for fourteen in the British Museum.

15 Information from Miss Dorothy Greene, Hon. Keeper of Roman Antiquities, Rotherham Museum. The map (National Grid) reference is 43/420905.

16 For the Chester and North Wales Archaeotion logical, Architectural, and Historic Society Excavation Committee. Dr. Richmond has kindly sent the summary together with a plan (fig. 21) and photographs (pl. xv).

17 Chester Arch. Soc. Journ. xxxv, 1942, 50Google Scholar. The jar from the cemetery noted by Mr. Stevens has now been found in the Grosvenor Museum and is of Neronian date.

18 Information from Mr. Harold Dudley, Scunthorpe Museum, where the pottery now is. The work was carried out by Mr. R. H. Arrand.

19 The distances along the Roman road to Wall (Letocetum) and to Wroxeter (Viroconium) agree well with those given in the Antonine Itinerary for Pennocrucium, and the site has strong claims to be identified as this place. Information from Dr. St. Joseph, who carried out the work for the Birmingham Archaeological Society, which will publish the report in its Transactions.

20 Excavations at Wroxeter in 1912 (Soc. Ant. Research Rep., 1), pl. XVII.

21 Information from Dr. F. M. Heichelheim, now of Toronto University, who carried out the work for the Ministry of Works. The pottery is in Nottingham University Museum.

22 Information from Mr. W. S. Abbott, of Sacrewell Farm, and Mr. T. E. Powell.

23 Information from Mr. John Holmes, of St. Edmund's College, Ware, who has sent a full report to East Herts Arch. Soc. Trans. For the road see VCH Herts iv, 1914, 144.

24 Information from Mr. R. Rainbird Clarke, who carried out the work for the Norfolk Research Committee.

25 P. V. Hill, Num. Chron. 1947, 157 ff. The hoard from Caister-by-Yarmouth found in 1946 (JRS XXXVII, 171) is also published in the same issue.

26 The site is on Mr. George Reeves' farm and the work was carried out under the direction of Mr. Basil Brown, of Ipswich Museum, where the objects, including Samian and Castor ware and Constantinian coins, are to be deposited. In the same field at the other end, it is said, the bath building of another house was opened in 1835 and 1849 (Suffolk Arch. Inst. Proc. 1, 74 ff., hence 6-in. O.S. map xxxiv SW, and VCH Suffolk I, 1911, 311 f.).

27 Inventory of Essex (RCHM) I, 113, and XXIII.

28 Information from Major Brinson of the Roman Essex Society, whose account has also been reprinted in the Archaeological Newsletter no. 10 (February, 1949), 12 f. For the house found in 1848 see Inventory of Essex (RCHM) 1 (1916) p. XXIII

29 The site was first found in 1842 and was thought to be a villa; it was re-examined in 1936. Brit. Arch. Assoc. Journ. ii, 45, and Smith, C. R., Coll. Ant. ii, 1852, 41Google Scholar, with plan. See also Hawkes and Hull Camulodunum (Soc. Ant. Research Rep. xiv), 10 f. for the antiquity of the site.

30 Information from Mr. M. R. Hull, of the Colchester Museum who carried out the work with the Colchester Museum and the Roman Essex Society.

31 Information from Major Brinson.

32 Pottery in the Chelmsford and Essex Museum. Information from Major Brinson.

33 Information from Mr. Charles Green.

34 The work was carried out first by Dr. K. D. Pringle and then under the direction of Mrs. H. E. O'Neil, F.S.A., who sent the information.

35 Now in the Ashmolean Museum and to be published in Oxoniensia; cf. figures from Tockenham Church, Wilts (JRS XVI, pl. 30), and Bablock Hythe (ibid, xxxv, 84, pl. 11).

36 The Roman Road from Caerleon to Silchester (Swindon, Twitcher and Co., Ltd., 1948Google Scholar, price is.). The road probably crossed the R. Churn at Sluzham, near Cricklade, Wilts, where Roman objects have been found. It may be noted here that trenches across the earthwork surrounding the town on the hill at Cricklade in 1948 produced no evidence of Roman date and so confirms Mr. Passmore's view of its post-Roman character.

37 The work was carried out under the direction of the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery Committee by Mr. G. C. Boon (who sent information) and Mr. John Brown. The site is to be preserved by the city as an Ancient Monument. A brief account, with plan, has been published by the Bristol City Museum, where the small objects are kept.

38 Published by R. A. G. Carson in Num. Chron. 1948, 81 f., who compares the hoard to one at Verulamium at the end of the third century, and some of the contents to some late fourth-century types in Richborough. For the site cf. JRS xxx, 174. The buildings were excavated by Mr. W. J. Wedlake for the Camerton Excavation Club.

39 The work was carried out by Mr. J. E. Stevens Cox, of Ivel House, in co-operation with Mr. H. S. L. Dewar and Mr. C. A. Ralegh Radford, from whose report the above is taken. It will be published in Ilchester Historical Monographs.

40 Somerset and Dorset N. and Q. 25, 1949, 185 ff.Google Scholar

41 Radford, C. A. Ralegh, Somerset and Dorset N. and Q. 25, 141 ff.Google Scholar

42 It was found by the owner of the garden, Mr. Maurice Abrey, ‘Glengariff,’ and was dug out under the direction of Mr. Smallcombe, of Reading Museum.

43 Information from Mr. L. W. Carpenter, who hopes to publish a report in the Research Reports of the Surrey Archaeological Collections.

44 Information from Mr. Anthony Clark, who carried out the work. The report will be published in Surrey Arch. Coll.

45 Information from Lieut.-Colonel G. W. Meates, who directed the work for the Darenth Valley Archaeological Research Club, and has kindly supplied the two plans (figs. 23 and 24); cf. also Arch. Cant. LXI, 180 f.

46 Cf. JRS xv, 245, and VCH Kent, III, 1932, 113Google Scholar.

47 Information from Mr. S. S. Frere, Director of the excavations for the Canterbury Excavation Committee, to which body we are indebted for the loan of the block used in fig. 25.

48 Information from Mr. Frank Jenkins who, with Mr. John Boyle, of the same committee, cut these trenches.

49 CIL xv, 2947, a, f, and XIII, 10002, 277 c (Mainz), both undated.

50 Information from Mr. Frank Jenkins, of Canterbury.

51 Arch. Cantiana LXI, 1949, 126 ff.Google Scholar

52 Information from Miss Anne Robertson, of the Hunterian Museum, and a photograph supplied by Glasgow University Library: the volume was acquired by the Library in 1943 from Sir Torquil Munro.

53 Information and photograph from Mr. Robert Hogg, Tullie House Museum, Carlisle, where the stone now is.

54 First seen in July, 1948, by Mr. Michael de Lisle and kindly notified by Mr. Eric Birley.

55 Found in August, 1948, by Messrs. Cockerton and Heathcote while conducting an excavation with boys from Chesterfield Grammar School.

56 EE ix, 1072, Grosvenor Mus. Cat. 77.

57 The piece was found in the Kaleyards in 1898, where it had been dumped among rubbish (presumably from an excavation) in the paddock of the Hop-pole Hotel (now demolished) which lay just outside the East Gate of Chester. The connection with the East Gate is thus closer than at first apparent.

58 Baddeley, , Bristol & Glos. Arch. Soc. Trans. XLV, 292Google Scholar, suggests DEAE ROMAE; cf. Mrs. Clifford, ibid. LX, 303. The piece was found at Lemington in 1905.

59 In Britain Regina is an epithet of Diana (EE ix, 1234) and Salus (CIL VII, 100) : either would suit this rural region.

60 For Mars Lenus, see Eph. Epigr. IX, 1009, where Haverfield comments upon his intimate connection with the Treveri : his great temple is described in Forschungen und Fortschritte, 1937, 337 ff.

61 Published Camb. Antiq. Soc. Proc. XLI, 1948, 79, pls. 26 and 27.

62 In the possession of Major G. C. Plaistowe, who found the ring in his garden. Published in Illus. London News, 2 October, 1948.

63 Information from Major Gordon Home.