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Roman Britain in 1946
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page 165 note 1 The work is in charge of Mr. G. C. Dunning on behalf of the Ministry of Works, and is still proceeding.
page 165 note 2 Previous Roman discoveries are summarized in Arch. Camb. 1936, 378.
page 165 note 3 To be published in the Soc. Antiq. Scot. Proc.
page 166 note 4 Ibid. LXVI, 1932, 301. We are indebted to Dr. St. Joseph for the plan shown in fig. 2.
page 166 note 5 JRS XXIX, 200 f.; XXX, 160 ff.
page 166 note 6 The Nithsdale sites are published in the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Nat. Hist. and Antiq. Soc. Trans., N.S. XXIV, 1945–1946, 152–7Google Scholar, with plan of Barburgh Mill.
page 167 note 7 Information from Mr. John Clarke, whose report is also published in the same Transactions, pp. 100–110, which also contains an account of the pottery from the fort at Carzield dug in 1939 (JRS XXX, 162). The pottery from Milton, almost all of the first century, is in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow.
page 168 note 8 Publication of the full report is held over pending further work in 1947.
page 168 note 9 For mile-castle, Arch. Ael. 4 VIII, 309 f.; XIII, 270 ff. (JRS XXVI, 240).
page 168 note 10 For turrets, Arch. Ael. 4 XVI, 227, n. 14.
page 168 note 11 Information from Mr. C. E. Stevens, who carried out the work on behalf of the Durham University Excavation Committee.
page 168 note 12 This sum has been given to a Trust Fund to be expended by the Readers of Romano-British Archaeology in Durham University together with the Council of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
page 169 note 13 Information from Dr. I. A. Richmond, whose account of the road will be published in the Cumb. and West. Ant. and Arch. Soc. Trans.
page 170 note 14 Soc. Ant. Newcastle upon Tyne Proc. X, 341 ff.
page 170 note 15 JRS XXIX, 204 f., and XXXI, 131 f.; Yorks. Arch. Journ. XXXIV, 342.
page 170 note 16 Information and photograph kindly sent by Mr. Gilyard-Beer.
page 170 note 17 Information and photograph sent by the Reverend Angelo Raine, the City Archivist. Plans, sections, and photographs of all antiquities discovered in York Corporation undertakings are made with the help of the City Engineer and preserved in the City Library.
page 170 note 18 Yorks Evening Press, 14 February, 1947.
page 170 note 19 JRS XXXVI, 136; now published by Mr. Norman Smedley in Num. Chron., 1946, 69–72.
page 170 note 20 Num. Chron., 1945, 155.
page 170 note 21 Information from Miss D. Greene.
page 170 note 22 Chester and North Wales Archit. Arch. and Hist. Soc. Journal XXX, 1933, 5 ff., III ff.; JRS XXII, 204, and XXIV, 204.
page 171 note 23 Information from Mr. W. J. Williams who directs the work with the help of B. R. Hartley, who sent a plan. Mr. Williams reports a legionary stamp of Holt type 3 found close to the southernmost building.
page 171 note 24 Roman Lincoln 1945–46, edited by I. A. Richmond. See below, pp. 181 f., nos. 10, 17.
page 171 note 25 Num. Chron., 1945, 165 f.
page 171 note 26 Information from Mr.Rudsdale, E. J. of Wisbech Museum. Cf. JRS XXXVI, 140 fGoogle Scholar.
page 171 note 27 Information from Mr. Morris, who has about 100 coins from this site.
page 171 note 28 Information from Mr. R. R. Clarke, The Castle Museum, Norwich, where much of the hoard now is; coroner's inquest reported in Eastern Daily Press, 21 December.
page 172 note 29 Account by T. C. Lethbridge in The Times, of II July; see also The Times, 2 July; the Suffolk and Essex Free Press, 20 September; Bury Free Press, 5 July and 20 September. At a coroner's inquest on I July, the Jury pronounced the hoard Treasure Trove, and later it was handed by H.M. Treasury to the British Museum, where it now is. The two finders received £1,000 each. We are indebted for the photographs to the Dept. of British and Medieval Antiquities, British Museum.
page 172 note 30 The Times, II October; East Anglian Daily Times, 16 October; Evening Standard, 20 April, 1947; cf. JRS XXXV, 82; XXXVI, 141.
page 172 note 31 Information from Mr. M. R. Hull, who hopes to publish the kiln in the second report on Camulodunum (Soc. of Antiq. Research Reports).
page 173 note 32 Information from Mr. C. A. R. Radford, who with Mr. H. S. Dewar carried out the work. Interim report by Mr.Radford, C. A. R. in the Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries XXV, 1946Google Scholar, offprints of which have been issued.
page 173 note 33 Mr. Walrond has collected information of at least six sites with a possibility of more.
page 174 note 34 Polygonal rooms are, of course, common in Roman nouses as, for instance, Keynsham, (Archaeologia LXXV, IIIGoogle Scholar) and Maidstone, where it forms part of the baths (Arch. Cant. X, 164), but so large a plunge bath, almost completely filling the room, is not common.
page 174 note 35 The work is being carried out under the direction of Mr. and Mrs. Hayward, with the advice of the Somerset Archaeological Society. Mr. Hayward kindly sent information with the plan (fig. 5) and photographs.
page 174 note 36 The hoard will be published by H. St. George Gray and H. Mattingly in Somerset Arch. and N.H. Proc., 1946.
page 175 note 37 Interim report by Lady Fox, for Exeter Council of War Damaged Exeter, 27 June, 1946, published in The Times of 21 August.
page 175 note 38 The discoveries in the gravel-pit were noted in 1913 by Dr. Gibson of Aldershot, and later by W. F. Rankine and A. W. G. Lowther, which led, in 1936, to the site being scheduled as an Ancient Monument.
page 175 note 39 Information, plans, and photographs kindly sent by A. W. G. Lowther, whose joint report with W. F. Rankine, will be published in Surrey Arch. Coll., or as a separate publication by the Surrey Archæological Society. The house is being preserved as a show place by the Surrey County Council and the Farnham residents.
page 175 note 40 Information from R. G. Goodchild, who undertook the work. Observations made by the late Winbolt, S. E. in Surrey Arch. Coll. XXXV (1924), 49–67Google Scholar.
page 177 note 41 Information and plan kindly sent by Shepherd Frere, who directed the work after Mrs. Williams resigned. Interim reports have been published regularly by the Excavation Committee and a detailed report of the first season's work in 1944 by Mrs. Williams has appeared in Arch. Cantiana. This, and a general account of Roman Canterbury (by S. Frere), have been issued as separate publications by the Medici Society, Ltd., the first two of a series of reports. See also below pp. 181f., nos. 13, 16, 19.
page 178 note 1 When measurements are quoted the width precedes the height. The following abbreviations are used in addition to the usual ones, with superscript figures to denote the number of the series: AA = Archaeologia Aeliana; EE = Ephemeris Epigraphica; YAJ = Yorkshire Archaeological Journal.
page 178 note 2 e.g. CIL VII, 372, 380.
page 178 note 3 Lent by the Governors of the School to Colchester Museum, and seen by the present writer.
page 178 note 4 The formula VSLM is occasionally added rather loosely with little regard for the preceding words which express the gift or dedication, e.g. JRS XXII (1932), 223Google Scholar, aram u.s.l.m.; CIL VII, 416, ex u(oto) p(osuii) … u.s.l.m.
page 178 note 5 For an aerarius compare the dedication of the bronze statuette of Mars from the Foss Dyke, Lines., CIL VII, 180Google Scholar.
page 179 note 6 For the site see JRS XXXVI (1946), 146Google Scholar; YAJ
page 179 note 7 The present writer now considers that the text must have been [Deo] | Vinotono | Siluano, though the capital is now too weathered to show any trace of [Deo].
page 179 note 8 CIL VII, 274, which, as Huebner saw, gives in l. 1 the names of Frontinus, and not NOB. CAE[S.. It may now be restored thus: …] | no L. Cae[sius] | Frontinus [praef.] | coh. 1 Thrac. [u. s. l. m.].
page 179 note 9 JRS XI (1921), 237Google Scholar.
page 180 note 10 CIL VII, 667.
page 180 note 11 Discovered and read by Mr. John Charlton; seen by the writer.
page 180 note 12 This swastika is recorded in Canon J. T. Fowler's MS. notes in his copy of Bruce, Walletbook of the Roman Wall, 155 (now in Durham University Library), and his rubbing is preserved among Haverfield's epigraphic material. For swastikas see CIL VII, 420, 825, 1031.
page 180 note 13 Details kindly sent by Dr. J. K. St. Joseph and Miss A. S. Robertson.
page 180 note 14 Found in field no. 123 (O.S. 25 in. map XLIV, 4) one mile due east of Bishop Norton, andsouth of Stone-pit Road. Now in Lincoln Museum, where the present writer has studied it; information, photographs, and squeeze kindly sent by Mr. F. T. Baker.
page 180 note 15 For a silver ring with FELIX SIS see CIL XIII, 10024, 68.
page 181 note 16 For similar names see Holder s.v. -edo, listing 26 personal names with this ending, and JRS XXXIV (1944), 91Google Scholar, Vassedo (Colchester), and on item II (a) below (spoon from Mildenhall), Papittedo.
page 181 note 17 Assoc. Archit. Soc. Reports VII (1864), XCIGoogle Scholar, figs. 1–3, CIL VII, 1267, with JRS XXI (1931), 249Google Scholar. Caistor lies ten miles north-east of Bishop Norton.
page 181 note 18 First noticed by D. B. Harden, who kindly sent a photograph and details, with references to Loeschcke, Niessen Catal. 49, no. 714, pl. LV, Kisa, Glas 925 no. 10, 940 no. 8, and for British examples Haverfield, Roman Britain in 1913, 29. Later seen by the present writer.
page 181 note 19 Mr. T. D. Kendrick kindly made the spoons available for study.
page 181 note 20 Kindly put at the writer's disposal by the finder.
page 181 note 21 This and nos. 16 and 19 below were kindly submitted by Mr. S. S. Frere.
page 181 note 22 Compare, EE iv 716Google Scholar, RCHM, Roman London, 176, no. 49, iron ring from London VITA VOLO; or five bronze rings, reading VITA, from Mainz and elsewhere, CIL XIII, 10024, 86 (b)–(f).
page 182 note 23 Found by Miss B. Lindop, of Manchester University, and kindly submitted by Professor D. Atkinson. Now in Manchester University Museum.
page 182 note 24 EE IV, 7046, with VII, 1144b.
page 182 note 25 The finder, Mr. F. S. Shutter, kindly sent it for examination.
page 182 note 26 Seneca, de breuitate uitae I, translating a maxim of Hippocrates, has uitam breuem esse, longam artem. Petch, Compare, Arch. Ael. 4, IV (1927), 185Google Scholar, fig. 12, I, for a buff sherd …]VITΛ·B[…from Benwell.
page 182 note 27 Information kindly supplied by Lady Fox who cites a graffito of this form from Canterbury, Antiq. Journ. vii (1927), 321Google Scholar.
page 182 note 28 Cabrol-Leclerq, , Dict, d'arch. chrét. III, cols. 1485, 1504, s.v. chrismeGoogle Scholar.