A Hoard of Late Roman Bronze Bowls and Mounts from the Misbourne Valley, near Amersham, Bucks

Farley, Michael; Henig, Martin; Taylor, John W.

doi:10.2307/526205

Britannia

1988

DOI: 10.2307/526205

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A Hoard of Late Roman Bronze Bowls and Mounts from the Misbourne Valley, near Amersham, Bucks

Michael Farley¹,

Martin Henig²,

John W. Taylor³

Abstract: The discovery of a hoard of bronze bowls and of two bronze human-headed terminals in the vicinity of Amersham is of some importance. In the following account, the context of the finds is discussed by Michael Farley, the bowls and the coins by John Taylor and the heads by Martin Henig.

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“…Bowls of Irchester type are known from many sites in Britain. 85 Their distribution (FIG. 13) shows a high concentration of examples particularly in the East Midlands and East Anglia, and southwards to the River Thames, Metal hoards which include Irchester bowls, together with a single example, are known from farther afield in Yorkshire, north Wales and from Helmsdale in Sutherland.…”

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A Bronze Bowl of Irchester Type from Stainfield, Lincolnshire

Micheli

1992

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NOTES dated, later in the second century. If these four stones are indeed of the same date, then it follows that RIB 2054 cannot date to late in the reign of Hadrian, since there is no occasion then for rebuilding west of Benwell. It therefore seems improbable that the turf wall west of Milecastle 54 was rebuilt in stone late in Hadrian's reign. Since it is unlikely that that rebuilding was delayed to late in the second century, it probably dates to c. A.D. 158. Probably 11 Augusta was involved in restoring the stone wall in the area west of Benwell, after the gap in occupation occasioned by the advance into Scotland under Antoninus Pius, as well as in rebuilding the final stretch of turf wall west of Milecastle 54 at the same time. The comparatively elaborate style of decoration of all four stones would certainly fit this date in the reign of Pius very well. Even more elaborate decoration appears on some stones from Benwell itself set up by // Augusta. These are RIB 1341, 1342, and 1344. All feature the Capricorn and Pegasus, while the second and third record work by coh.il and coh.X respectively. It is not unreasonable to suggest that these stones may also belong to a quite extensive rebuilding in and to the west of Benwell fort, in or about A.D. 158. The same date may be appropriate for the dedication RIB 1330, which records (in the reign of Pius) a centurion of II Augusta, M. Liburnius Fronto. At the same date, AD. 158, and a little further west, VI Victrix was involved in rebuilding: RIB 1389 records such activity in that year, and the use of REF{ecit) is quite explicit. After the advance into Scotland under Pius, it would appear that much of the Wall in the sector from Benwell to the west was demolished, and extensive rebuilding was required at the time of the re-occupation of Hadrian's Wall as a frontier line in A.D. 158. Why this should be is unfortunately not clear. But it seems very likely that RIB 1388, recording rebuilding by coh.

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A Bronze Bowl of Irchester Type from Stainfield, Lincolnshire

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1992

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A Multidisciplinary Analysis of an Antiquarian Discovery: The Knaresborough 1864 Hoard of Late Roman Vessels

Gerrard,

DeMaso,

Romeo Pitone

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Antiq. J.

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This is the first comprehensive publication of the Knaresborough 1864 hoard of copper-alloy vessels and tools. A consideration of the circumstances of the hoard’s discovery, along with a biographical account of Thomas Gott (the man who deposited the hoard in the Yorkshire Museum), for the first time enables a case to be made for a findspot. A consideration of the vessels and other objects establishes the hoard as one of the most unusual assemblages of its kind from late Roman Britain. pXRF analysis of the vessels sheds light on their composition. Finally, a discussion of the hoard places it within the international context of late Roman deposition practices.

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Emperors and Deities in Rural Britain: A Copper-Alloy Head of Marcus Aurelius from Steane, near Brackley (Northants.)

Walker¹

2014

Britannia

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A half-life-sized copper-alloy head of a bearded man was published in the Portable Antiquities Scheme's report of finds from Roman Britain in 2009.1 The head was purchased by the Ashmolean Museum in 2011. In this paper evidence for the identification of the subject as a portrait of the emperor Marcus Aurelius is reviewed by comparison with metropolitan and other certainly identified heads of deities and portraits of the emperor. The technique and likely function of the head are compared with those of similarly worked Roman copper-alloy heads of emperors and deities found in South-East Britain. Finally, a brief account is given of geophysical survey and trial excavation conducted in 2012–13 in the field where the head was found. This offers a unique opportunity to explore the head's archaeological context.

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A Hoard of Late Roman Bronze Bowls and Mounts from the Misbourne Valley, near Amersham, Bucks

Abstract: The discovery of a hoard of bronze bowls and of two bronze human-headed terminals in the vicinity of Amersham is of some importance. In the following account, the context of the finds is discussed by Michael Farley, the bowls and the coins by John Taylor and the heads by Martin Henig.

Cited by 6 publications

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A Bronze Bowl of Irchester Type from Stainfield, Lincolnshire

A Bronze Bowl of Irchester Type from Stainfield, Lincolnshire

A Multidisciplinary Analysis of an Antiquarian Discovery: The Knaresborough 1864 Hoard of Late Roman Vessels

Emperors and Deities in Rural Britain: A Copper-Alloy Head of Marcus Aurelius from Steane, near Brackley (Northants.)

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