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A Deposit of Roman Lead from North Lodge Farm, Barnwell, Northants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2011

W.H.C. Frend
Affiliation:
Little Wilbraham, Cambridge
J.A. Hadman
Affiliation:
Oundle

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Britannia , Volume 25 , November 1994 , pp. 224 - 226
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Copyright © W.H.C. Frend and J.A. Hadman 1994. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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60 For the earlier excavations in 1973, see Hadman, J.A. and Upex, S.G., ‘The Roman villa at North Lodge, Barnwell’, Durobrivae ii (1974), 27–9.Google Scholar

61 Work between 1985 and 1989 has been briefly reported by Hadman, J.A. and the writer in Britannia xx (1989), 290 and xxi (1990), 332.Google Scholar

62 The finders were Paul and Carmel Crawley who worked tirelessly in these wet and unpromising conditions.

63 Cunliffe, B.W., Roman Bath, Rep. Res. Comm. Soc. Antiq. XXIV (1969), 126–8Google Scholar. For an example from a villa, see Meates, G.W., The Lullingstone Roman Villa, Kent Archaeological Society Monograph II (1987), 93, fig. 40, No. 221 (late fourth century).Google Scholar

64 Meates, op. cit. (note 63), No. 225 (late second-century level).

65 Guy, C.J., ‘The Lead tank from Ashton’, Durobrivae v (1977), 1011.Google Scholar

66 Cunliffe, op. cit. (note 63), 126.

67 The tanks possibly had a Christian use, see Watts, D.J., ‘Circular lead tanks and their significance for Romano-British Christianity’, Antiq. Journ. lxviii (1988), 210–22. Other lead objects are shown in Meates, op. cit. (note 63), 93, fig. 40, Nos 222-230.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

68 op. cit. (note 65).

69 A.O. Curie, The Treasure of Traprain (1923), 108: ‘The loot was broken up to allow equal distribution by actual, pieces’, of the hoard, which ‘represented the wealth of a robber band’. See his plates III, IV and XXXIV.

70 Described by Curie, op. cit. (note 69), ch. ii, ‘Some Analogous Hoards’.