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2. SCOTLAND

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 February 2025

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Roman Britain in 2023
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11 Claimed as Treasure Trove and allocated to Shetland Museum. Length 46 mm.

12 Other stray finds of Roman items allocated through Treasure Trove in 2023 were a headstud brooch fragment from near Liff, Angus, with trumpet motifs surrounding the headstud (D. Mackreth, Brooches in late Iron Age and Roman Britain (2011), 107 type 5b), a Polden Hill brooch found near Kincaple, Fife (ibid., 72 type CD PH 4a), another from Ayton, Scottish Borders (ibid., same type), a fragmentary enamelled headstud brooch from Currochs, Perth & Kinross (ibid,, 106 type 3a), and a Roman or early Medieval polyhedral-headed pin from Kinnaber, Angus. A kräftig-profilierte brooch said to have been found in the vicinity of Invergowrie (Perth and Kinross) is an unusual find for Scotland, and in the absence of supporting detail on the findspot it is not certainly an ancient loss. For details of all, see Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 2023.

13 Directed by C. MacIver of AOC Archaeology for Campion Homes.

14 By N. Hannon and H. Blake of Historic Environment Scotland.

15 For which, see A.S. Robertson and L. Keppie, The Antonine Wall. A Handbook to Scotland's Roman Frontier (6th edn, 2015), 98–9.

16 By N. Hannon and H. Blake of Historic Environment Scotland; Dr Hannon sent details.

17 Britannia 54 (2023), 339.

18 G. Bailey, The Antonine Wall in the Falkirk District (2021), 484–92.

19 Excavations were led for Falkirk Local History Society by G. Bailey, who sent a full report.

20 By L. Cavanagh. Allocated to National Museums Scotland via Treasure Trove.

21 By N. Hannon and H. Blake of Historic Environment Scotland. Dr Hannon sent plots and discussed the results.

22 Journal of Roman Studies 56 (1966), 199; 57 (1967), 176.

23 Hunter, F., Henig, M.. Sauer, E., and Gooder, J., ‘Mithras in Scotland: a Mithraeum at Inveresk (East Lothian)’, Britannia 47 (2016), 119–68CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

24 Four copper-alloy coins (Flavian as, as of Domitian, three unidentified) and two denarii (Nero, Vespasian). Allocated to Peebles Museum via Treasure Trove.

25 By T. Romankiewicz, A. Lawrence, and S. Campbell for the Universities of Edinburgh and Bern and the Trimontium Trust. The site had seen previous investigation as part of the Newstead Environs Project; J.S. Dent in F. Hunter and L. Keppie (eds), A Roman Frontier Post and Its People: Newstead 1911–2011 (2012), 216.

26 Few stray finds associated with Roman sites were reported this year, the only instance being a trumpet brooch found south of Port Seton (East Lothian) in an area of known later prehistoric activity; Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 2023.

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