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Roman Britain in 1952

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page 104 note 1 Wheeler, , Y Cymmrodor XXXIII, 1923, 95 ffGoogle Scholar.

page 104 note 2 Information from Mr. A. H. A. Hogg, Secretary of the Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments in Wales, who with his staff carried out the excavation for the Ministry of Works.

page 104 note 3 The work was a continuation of that previously carried out in the adjoining Prysg Field; Arch. Cambrensis 1931, 99 ff.

page 104 note 4 Roy, Military Antiquities, pl. XVIII; Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot. XXXVI, 182 ff.

page 104 note 5 JRS IX, 113–122.

page 105 note 6 ibid. XLI, pl. VIII.

page 105 note 7 The excavation was carried out by Mr. Glen Aitken. Information and drawings from Feachem, R. W.: cf. Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot. LXXXIV, 217 Google Scholar, where also a possible road to Carpow, (JRS XLI, 63) is mentionedGoogle Scholar.

page 105 note 8 Information and drawings from R. W. Feachem; the air photograph was examined for the survey of Renfrewshire by the Royal Comm. Anc. Mons. (Scotland).

page 106 note 9 Information from the excavator, Mr. Frank Newall.

page 107 note 10 JRS XLI, pls. VI, VII.

page 110 note 11 Information from Dr. K. A. Steer, who with Mr. R. W. Feachem carried out the excavation.

page 110 note 12 cf. Arch. Ael. 4 XI, 227, for the ditch in Westgate slightly further west.

page 110 note 13 Cumb. and Westm. Antiq. and Arch. Soc. Trans. 2 XXXVII, 158 (Wallbowers), 166 (High House).

page 110 note 14 AA 4 XXVI, 3, 36, n. 11.

page 111 note 15 The work on the Vallum was directed by Miss B. Swinbank, on milecastle 27 by Mr. J. P. Gillam, and at Birdoswald jointly by them. Reports will be published in Arch. Aeliana or C. W. Trans.

page 111 note 16 AA 3 VII, plan facing p. 174; AA 4 XXX, 240, fig. 2.17 AA 4 XXVIII, 173; JRS XXXVII, 168. Information about Hadrian's Wall sites from Professor I. A Richmond.

page 111 note 18 CW 2 XLVIII (1949), 23 ff., fig. 1, map; cf. JRS XXXVIII, 85, and references there given.

page 111 note 19 Information from Mr. E. J. W. Hildyard who, with Lt.-Col. O. H. North, conducted the excavation for the Cumberland and Westmorland Society, in whose Transactions the report will be published.

page 111 note 20 For W and SE rampart see JRS XL, 97 f., figs. 16, 17 and Chester Arch. Soc. Journ. 39, 1952, 21 ff. Information and drawings from Mr. Graham Webster, who conducted the excavation for the Chester Excavation Committee of the Chester Archaeological Society.

page 112 note 21 The full report will be published in a Research Report of the Society of Antiquaries.

page 112 note 22 Information from Mr. E. J. W. Hildyard, who excavated the site under the auspices of the Roman Antiquities Committee of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society. The pottery is to go to Leeds University.

page 112 note 23 Information from Mr. W. V. Wade, the Director of the excavation for Leeds University. A full report is in preparation for the Leeds Philos. Soc. Proc. See above, p. 88.

page 112 note 24 The Halifax Museum acquired the 533 coins, declared Treasure Trove, and the pot which contained them. The remainder of the coins were returned to the finders. Information from R. A. G. Carson, who will publish details in Numis. Chron., 1953.

page 112 note 25 One camp is mentioned in Stukeley's Diary, 28th June, 1740, Surtees Society Publications LXXX, 1885, 380.

page 113 note 26 Information and plan from H. G. Ramm, who noticed the camps in looking through air photographs for the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments. A report will be published in the Yorks. Phil. Soc. Trans.

page 114 note 27 The increase in the foundations of the church from 9 ft. to 26 ft. at one point suggest the presence of a deep ditch.

page 114 note 28 Information from Mr. G. F. Willmot, Keeper of the Museum, who conducted the excavations.

page 114 note 29 Information from Mr. L. P. Wenham, the excavator.

page 114 note 30 Information from Miss Dorothy Greene, who published an account of the road in the Hunter Arch. Soc. Trans. VII, 78 ff., with a map showing the layout of all the roads, and arguing that this road from Chesterfield, Riknield Street, had little to do with Templeborough and is later. The road found at Beighton in 1847 she now shows is not Riknield Street but possibly some connecting road.

page 114 note 31 Information from D. N. Riley.

page 114 note 32 Information with plan and full details from Mr. F. H. Thompson. The full report will be published in the Ant. Journal.

page 114 note 33 cf. Antiquity X, 1936, 36 ff., which does mention at p. 53 a possible but unproved barrow at Hovingham, York.

page 115 note 34 Information from F. H. Thompson, whose detailed report will be published by the Lincoln Archaeological Research Committee, and to this body the Editorial Committee is indebted for the loan of blocks used in figs. 32, 33 and pl. XXII.

page 115 note 35 Information from R. A. G. Carson, who will publish details in Numis. Chron. 1953. The denarii were acquired by the Old Hall Museum, Gainsborough, where the bronze coins have been deposited on loan.

page 117 note 36 Information from Dr. Philip Corder on behalf of the Summer School organized by the Department of Adult Education of Nottingham University.

page 117 note 37 Information from Mr. R. G. Goodchild, who excavated on behalf of the Leicester Research Committee, the work being sponsored jointly by the British Association and the Museum and Libraries Committee of Leicester Corporation. The report will be published in Leics. Arch. Soc. Trans.

page 118 note 38 Dr. K. M. Kenyon directed the excavation, assisted by Mr. Graham Webster, for a Training School organized by the Extra Mural Department of the University of Birmingham.

page 118 note 39 For similar well cf. below, p. 126, Lullingstone.

page 118 note 40 Vict. Co. Hist. Warwicks. I, 230 f.; information from Mr. F. H. Thompson, of Lincoln Museum, who examined the bronze and pottery; according to The Times, 17th April, 1952, a trench 20 to 30 yds. long full of animal horns was disclosed in the same workings of the Shawell Sand and Gravel Company, and other Roman objects were found near by.

page 119 note 41 Information from Mr. R. G. Goodchild and Miss J. R. Kirk, who directed the excavation for the Ashmolean Museum. The temple precinct could well have incorporated the fair-ground suggested by Dr. Milne, J. G. in JRS XXI (1931), 101 ffGoogle Scholar., and explains the presence of the many small votive bronzes listed in Oxoniensia XIV (1949), 1 ff.; cf. also JRS VII (1917), 98 ff., and Vict. Co. Hist. Oxon. I, 299 ff.

page 119 note 42 This phenomenon has been frequently observed in the case of other shrines, and suggests the presence of some earlier important feature; cf. Colchester, , JRS XXVI (1935), 252 Google Scholar, and pl. XX. The report will be published in Oxoniensia.

page 120 note 43 Detailed information with drawing (fig. 36) has been kindly sent by Mr. John Holmes, who is publishing in East Herts Arch. Soc. Trans., a full report of all the discoveries made by him and the St. Edmund's College Archaeological Society in past years, showing the nature and history of the Roman settlement which extends over some 28 acres and was quite distinct from the pre-Roman settlement on the east side of the R. Rib.

page 120 note 44 Information from Mr. P. G. Suggett, who directed the work for the North Middlesex Archaeological Research Committee. The Report will appear in the Trans. London and Middx. Arch. Soc. XI, part 3. For previous excavations see ibid. X, parts 1 and 3, and XI, part 2.

page 120 note 45 Information from Miss Clare Fell.

page 121 note 46 Information from Mr. R. A. G. Carson, who is publishing a full report in Norfolk Archaeology, 1953.

page 122 note 47 The work was carried out b y R. M. Butler, of Peterhouse, with a party of Cambridge volunteers.

page 122 note 48 Information from Mr. Charles Green, who directed the excavation for the Ministry of Works.

page 122 note 49 Information from Mr. R. A. G. Carson, who will publish details in the Numis. Chron., 1953.

page 122 note 50 Information from Mr. N. Smedley, of Ipswich Museum, where the coffin now is, and where details and map of all Roman sites in Suffolk is being prepared.

page 122 note 51 Excavated by Lieut.-Col. R. J. Appleby; information from Mr. M. R. Hull.

page 123 note 52 Information from Mr. M. R. Hull.

page 123 note 53 Information from Mrs. H. E. O'Neil, F.S.A., who with Mr. E. D. Atkinson and Mr. S. Jacques dug the section.

page 123 note 54 For earlier finds see Vict. Co. Hist. Som. I, 266 f., citing Scarth, Aquae Solis (1864), 102, 104.

page 123 note 55 A full report of all the discoveries by Rahtz, P., with plan and reconstruction of the temple, has been published in Som. Arch, and N.H. Proc. XCVI, 112 ffGoogle Scholar. The eighty-two coins from the temple site range from Gallienus to Arcadius, with eight illegible of the fourth century, only six being of the third century.

page 123 note 56 Sykes, C. M., Som. Arch. and N.H. Soc. Proc. XCVI, 234 Google Scholar.

page 123 note 57 Som. Arch. and N.H. Soc. Proc. XCVI, 238 ff., and information from G. C. Boon; for earlier finds see Balch, Mendip—the Great Cave of Wookey Hole, 3rd ed., 1947 (Bristol), and Vict. Co. Hist. Som. I 335, n. 2.

page 123 note 58 Vict. Co. Hist. Cornwall. I, 1924, 8, fig. 8.

page 123 note 59 Information from Mr. E. Mason, who directed the work of the Bristol Exploration Club and the Bristol Folk House Archaeological Club.

page 123 note 60 It included a circular house over 30 ft. in diameter, with an inner ring of posts supporting the roof, like those published in Journ. Royal Inst. Cornwall n.s. 1, Appendix 51; cf. Proc. Prehist. Soc. VI, 30; XV, 159 (Little Woodbury).

page 124 note 61 Information from Mr. C. A. R. Radford, who carried out the work with Mr. and Mrs. Dewar, as an excavation training school organized for the Som. Arch. Soc., with financial help from other bodies. The report will appear in Som. Arch. and N.H. Soc. Proc. A map showing the distribution of some twenty-five houses or buildings in this area of the Parett Valley, NW of the Fosseway at Ilchester, is published by Dewar, H. S. in Som. Arch, and N.H. Soc. Proc. XCVI, 44 ffGoogle Scholar., together with the final report by C. A. R. Radford of the excavation of the house at Catsgore, Somerton, (JRS XLI, 136 Google Scholar).

page 124 note 62 Information from Mr. L. C. Hayward. The report will be published in Som. N.H. and Arch. Soc. Proc. For wingless corridor houses compare Ellesborough, Terrick, (Records of Bucks II, 1888, 53)Google Scholar, Saunderton, Bucks (ibid, XIII, 398), and Lockleys, Welwyn (Ant. Journ. XVIII, 339)Google Scholar, and Iwerne, Wilts.

page 124 note 63 For the history of the Roman town see Roman Exeter reviewed below, p. 215 f.

page 124 note 64 Information from D. B. Harden.

page 124 note 65 Report sent by Lady Fox. The finds are in the Royal Albert Museum, Exeter.

page 124 note 66 Air Ministry photo 3G/TUD/T 15 Part 1, 5033 (pl. XXIV).

page 124 note 67 Devon and Cornwall N. and Q. XIV (1) (1926) 19. The road was traced by Mr. J. Fox, and later by Messrs. R. G. Goodchild and A. L. F. Rivet, who sent the information and the photograph.

page 124 note 68 Near which, in the Taw, a coin of Hadrian was found in 1908.

page 124 note 69 Parts of the banks are shown on O.S. 6-in. 65 NE (2nd edn., 1906).

page 125 note 70 Information from Mr. R. A. H. Farrar.

page 125 note 71 To be published by Calkin, J. B. in Dorset N.H. and Arch. Soc. Proc. LXXIV Google Scholar. Similar burials occurred at Kimmeridge and Todber, cf. above, p. 123 (Bath). The excavation of a small Roman building on Woodhouse Hill by Poole Grammar School boys, under Dr. N. H. Field, will be reported when the work is completed.

page 125 note 72 The Ancient Earthworks of the New Forest, 1917, 47–59 ff.; plan on pl. IX, no. A.

page 125 note 73 Information from H. C. Bowen, who directed the excavation carried out under the auspices of the Ministry of Works.

page 125 note 74 Information from D. B. Connah, who excavated the site with the Newbury Grammar School Arch. Soc.

page 125 note 75 See Surrey Arch. Coll. XLIII, 34, south of site 3 on the map, fig. 16; JRS XXV, 222.

page 125 note 76 Information from A. W. G. Lowther, who dug the section. He suggests that numerous potsherds on this dry ground, together with the presence of a spring, makes it possible that this is the site of the first mansio from London rather than at Merton Priory, a wet site without evidence of occupation, as suggested by I. D. Margary, Roman Ways in the Weald, 1948, 46. For another section of the road near Ewell dug in 1948 see Fox, J., Surrey Arch. Coll. LI, 147 ffGoogle Scholar.

page 125 note 77 Surrey Arch. Coll. XXXVII, 160, fig. 3, 17c; XLVIII, 51, fig. 5, 11, 17.

page 126 note 78 Sussex Arch. Coll. LXXX, 190. burial group 59.

page 126 note 79 ibid. LXXV, 118 ff.

page 126 note 80 ibid. LXXV, 108, plan no. 3.

page 126 note 81 The Report of the Excavation, 1947–1950, is published in Sussex Arch. Coll. XC, 164 ff.

page 126 note 82 Caiger, J. E. L. and Tester, P. J., Arch. Cant. LXV, 178 fGoogle Scholar., and information from the latter. For earlier finds in the wood see Arch. Cant. LIV, 1941, 10 ff., with map; LXI, 1948, 133 f.

page 126 note 83 For a similar well, see above, p. 118 (Caves Inn).

page 127 note 84 Information from Lieut.-Colonel G. W. Meates.

page 127 note 85 Information from W. S. Penn, whose ‘Excavation Report No. 2’ of the Gravesend Historical Society is also published in Arch. Cant. For earlier finds compare Vict. Co. Hist. Kent. III, 90, fig. 15, and Arch. Cant. LXV, 171 f.

page 127 note 86 Information from R. A. G. Carson and Surgeon-Commander Peter Gray. It is of the same date as a hoard of denarii and jewellery found in 1864 100 ft. to the N.W. The jewellery is in the British Museum. At this spot was much Samian and coarse ware of the mid-first and late-second century, roofing tiles, and burnt earth, Vict. Co. Hist. Kent III, 168. A report on the hoard will appear in Arch. Cant. LXVI, 1953.

page 127 note 87 Information from Surgeon-Commander Peter Gray, R.N., who found the intaglio in surveying and says that discoveries of the pre-Belgic Iron Age, Belgic and Romano-British period, with many wasters of the so-called Belgic terra nigra type and briquetage like that of the Red Hills of Essex, are limited to isolated patches of the tidal land in the Upchurch Marshes not more than 100 sq. ft. in extent.

page 128 note 88 Mr. Frere kindly sent the plans shown on fig. 39 and pl. XXVIII.

page 128 note 1 When measurements are quoted the width precedes the height.

page 128 note 2 Mr. F. Higenbottam kindly sent the fragment for drawing.

page 128 note 3 Dr. T. R. Thomson kindly sent details and the Hon. Curator, Miss A. C. Dowden, of Cricklade Museum supplied a squeeze.

page 128 note 4 The present writer has drawn the inscription.

page 128 note 5 Kirk, Joan R., Oxoniensia XIV (1949), 45 Google Scholar, with a drawing of A in fig. 9, no. 11. (a) and (b) were acquired in 1935, (c) and (d) are on loan in the Wyndham Hughes collection.

page 128 note 6 Now in the Ashmolean Museum; excavated in 1952 by Mr. R. G. Goodchild and Miss J. R. Kirk, the latter of whom kindly provided details.

page 129 note 7 Ant. Jour. XXXII (1952), 185, pl. XXXII.

page 129 note 8 JRS II (1912), 210.

page 129 note 9 CIL V, 8750, 8988c.

page 129 note 10 Stevens, C. E. (Arch. Jour. XCVII (1941), 151)Google Scholar shows that a magister militum ranked too high to be placed on the inscription in a position secondary to the praepositus.

page 129 note 11 CIL VIII 22774; Inscr. Rom. Trip. 876.

page 129 note 12 See drawing by Collingwood in Archaeology of Roman Britain 171, fig. 44b. The stone itself now shows no trace of the horizontal bars of an E, but there is enough space in which such a letter may have been cut, and later flaked away.

page 129 note 13 Mr. A. Barton, of Newburn Garage, kindly gave details of this stone to the present writer, who has subsequently seen it.

page 129 note 14 Northd. County Hist. XIII, 563, for milecastle 9; CIL VII, 536, for several seen by Horsley near Wallbottle. X is the highest number previously recorded in this sector; at Chesterholm a series of numerals reaching XIIII was cut on the voussoirs of a vault in the bath-house west of the fort ( Hunter, , Phil. Trans. XXIII (1702), 1131 Google Scholar).

page 129 note 15 Mr. J. P. Gillam kindly submitted the fragment for study.

page 129 note 16 CIL VII, 706.

page 129 note 17 Mr. R. W. P. Cockerton kindly sent details, a photograph, and an impression of the incisions.

page 130 note 18 Kisa, Glas im Altertume 948, no. 80. Mr. L. P. Wenham kindly sent details and Dr. D. B. Harden's report and submitted the bottle for examination.

page 130 note 19 Now in Warrington Museum, where Mr. W. C. Sprunt kindly provided details of provenance.

page 130 note 20 In Warrington Museum; Lancs. Chesh. Hist. Soc. Trans. XLVIII, 15, pl. 2.

page 130 note 21 Professor I. A. Richmond kindly submitted them for examination. The roundel is decorated on both faces and perforated and seems to be a spindle-whorl.

page 130 note 22 Bruce, Lap. Sept. p. 391.

page 130 note 23 Mr. R. Hogg kindly gave details.

page 130 note 24 Now in the Yorkshire Museum, York, where the Keeper, Mr. G. F. Willmot, kindly gave details of his excavation.

page 130 note 25 The finders of the tile without authority removed it and broke it; Mr. D. J Nicholls recovered most of the fragments. Mr. G. C. Boon, of Reading Museum, kindly sent full details and a photograph and the tile is now in the Museum. See Oxoniensia XVI (forthcoming).

page 130 note 26 The cognomen Datius occurs on the tombstone of L. Fulvius Datius, an under-pilot from Misenum (ILS 2864, CIL X, 3483), on a tombstone at Plasencia, in Spain, set up by Datius, L. Aelius (CIL II, 830 Google Scholar), and on the ware of a Rheinzabern potter (Oswald, Stamps on T.S.).

page 131 note 27 Mr. F. Harris kindly sent it for drawing and has presented it to the Royal Museum, Canterbury.

page 131 note 28 Mr. D. T. D. Clarke kindly gave details.

page 131 note 29 Mr. F. Higenbottam kindly sent it for examination.

page 131 note 30 Mr. R. Hogg kindly pointed it out.

page 131 note 31 Mr. L. P. Wenham kindly submitted it for examination

page 131 note 32 Mr. F. Jenkins kindly sent it for drawing.

page 131 note 33 Mr. and Mrs. K. Watson, of Stanwix, who excavated the urn, kindly sent it for examination.

page 131 note 34 CIL XIII, 9097.

page 131 note 35 Mr. F. Jenkins kindly sent full details and the sherds for examination.

page 132 note 36 Ant. Jour. XXXII (1952), 198, fig. 1.

page 132 note 37 Novus thesaurus veterum inscriptionum III, p. 1787, no. 2; CIL VI, 21918.

page 132 note 38 Lap. Sept. no. 324.

page 132 note 39 CIL VII, 799.

page 132 note 40 Part of the carved left-hand bolster, 5 by 7½ in., from the capital of this altar was found in February, 1953, by Mr. Marwood in the Eller Beck, a mile below the site of the shrine.