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An Iron Age Tankard Fragment From Caerwent

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

Morna Simpson
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 52 , Issue 2 , September 1972 , pp. 330 - 331
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1972

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page 330 note 1 In a letter to the Museum's Deputy Director, Mr. C. Barnett, to whom thanks are due for the provision of photographs.

page 330 note 2 P.P.S. xviii (1952), 85–102.Google Scholar

page 330 note 3 Burwell Fen, Cambs., Ibid., 239 and pl. XXVIII; Caerwent, Mon., present paper; Puddlehill, Beds., P.P.S. xviii (1957), 233 and pl. XXVIIIGoogle Scholar; Welwyn, Herts., no. 11, Fox, C., Pattern & Purpose (1958), p. 78Google Scholar, fig. 48. Since writing this note, my attention has been drawn by Mr. J. Wacher to yet another recent discovery, from the Roman site at Catterick. This enamelled hold-fast, partaking of features of the Okstrow and (to a minor degree) Trawsfynydd tankard fitments, merits discussion at a future date.

page 330 note 4 I use the nomenclature of Sir Cyril Fox; see op. cit., pp. 147–8-

page 330 note 5 P.P.S. xviii (1952), pl. x, 2.Google Scholar

page 330 note 6 Ibid., pl. XIII, 2.

page 330 note 7 Ibid., pl. XI, 3.

page 331 note 1 Fox, op. cit., p. 122, fig. 75 and pl. 69.

page 331 note 2 Ibid., pl. 72b.

page 331 note 3 The hoard's deposit cannot far pre-date A.D. 60 in view of the ‘Colchester’ brooch type which it contains; on the other hand, the rest of its material might well be spread out over the preceding half century.

page 331 note 4 Ibid., pl. 57c.

page 331 note 5 Although I find the attribution of such metal-work to one or other tribe (whether Dobunnic, Silurian, Icenian, or, in the wider sense, Belgic) a hazardous task.

page 331 note 6 Ibid., p. 129, fig. 78.

page 331 note 7 E., Davies, ed., Celtic Studies in Wales; a Survey (1963), pp. 28–9.Google Scholar

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page 331 note 9 See p. 330 n. 3.

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