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Stamped Tiles found in Gloucestershire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2012

E. M. Clifford
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The stamps on Roman tiles found in Gloucestershire are sufficiently numerous and varied to make it worth while publishing an illustrated list of them with full details. They fall into two categories.

(A) Tiles stamped R P G (no. i below), = Rei publicae Glevensium, R P G I I V M E T P G, = rei publicae Glevensium duoviris M et P G (no. 2), R P G Q Q I V L FLOR ET C C R S M, = rei publicae Glevensium quinquennalibus Iulio Floro et C …. (no. 7), and also with other names (nos. 4-6), have been found in Gloucester, in the Roman cemetery at Barnwood near by, and at the Roman villas of Hucclecote and Ifold, near Painswick (fig. 3), and it has been suggested that their distribution should serve as a clue to the extent of the territorium of the colonia of Glevum in the surrounding country. They were first discussed by Haverfield and interpreted by him as municipal tile stamps, the R P G standing for ‘res publica Glevensium’ while the other letters indicate the names of the magistrates of the colonia who, in the municipal government, corresponded to the consuls of the Roman Republic.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 45 , Issue 1-2 , November 1955 , pp. 68 - 72
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Copyright © E. M. Clifford 1955. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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References

1 The legionary stamp, LEG II AVG found at Sea Mills, near Bristol, in 1922 (JRS XI, 238) is not included nor those from Berkeley Church (Ephemeris Epigraphica (= EE) IX, 1288, and references there given) nor any graffiti.

2 The Barnwood and Hucclecote specimens in the Clifford Collection, now in Cheltenham Museum, have been described by ProfessorHawkes, Christopher in Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society (= B & GT) LII, 228Google Scholar; 55. 351.

3 EE IX, 1283–4.

4 B & GT XXIX, 1906, 178 f.

5 These measurements refer to the height of the letters.