A Hoard of Military Awards, Jewellery and Coins from Colchester

Crummy, Nina; Henig, Martin; Ward, C. Osborne

doi:10.1017/s0068113x16000027

Britannia

2016

DOI: 10.1017/s0068113x16000027

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A Hoard of Military Awards, Jewellery and Coins from Colchester

Nina Crummy¹,

Martin Henig²,

C. Osborne Ward³

Abstract: A hoard of objects found at the early Roman colony at Colchester in a small hole scraped into the floor of a house destroyed during the Boudican revolt includes a group of high-quality gold jewellery, three silver military awards, a bag of coins, an unusual silver-clad wooden box and other items. Buried in haste as the British approached, they provide a remarkably clear image of one couple's background, achievements, taste and social standing. A bulla shows that the man was a Roman citizen, the awards that he … Show more

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“…Crummy cites two penannular armlets from London to which at least four more can be added from modern excavations in the Middle Walbrook valley which have produced extremely large groups of contemporary militaria at 1 Poultry (Hill and Rowsome 2011, 26) and Bloomberg London (Marshall and Wardle in prep.). See also Crummy 2016, 7–11.…”

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The Museum of London selected four individuals for multidisciplinary scientific analyses in order to establish their ancestry, aspects of their personal appearance and health. We also reinterpreted their burial context in order to better understand how identity was constructed and expressed in this unique Roman settlement. Our study discovered the presence of people with Black and White European ancestry, some of whom had migrated from the southern Mediterranean. The most surprising result was that Harper Road woman's chromosomes were male. Overall, our experience of undertaking a multidisciplinary study served to further underline the need for these different techniques to be used in combination when investigating past identities. The mtDNA results were very broad and required the mobility isotopes to better understand their significance, while the aDNA evidence confirmed the osteological analysis. In terms of public engagement at the Museum of London, the ability to determine hair and eye colour had a significant impact.

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A Hoard of Military Awards, Jewellery and Coins from Colchester – Corrigendum

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WARWICKSHIRE (1) Radford Semele, Spring Lane (SP 34215 64219): archaeological excavation in advance of a proposed residential development uncovered part of a ditched boundary aligned north-south, with a return on the east side and an entrance, confirming the results of a previous geophysical survey. The features are likely to form part of a field-system dating from the late Iron Age to early Roman period, probably associated with an unidentified settlement located somewhere in the vicinity. The paucity of artefactual evidence suggests that the settlement was not particularly close. 89 WORCESTERSHIRE (1) Bredon, Oak Lane (SO 9250 3670): an excavation identified the remains of a Roman farmstead which comprised a probable roundhouse and a well, surrounded by enclosures. The finds assemblage revealed that these were occupied from the first to the late third/fourth centuries, with abandonment having occurred by the early fourth century. The skeletal remains of one human and several dogs, as well as a number of cremation urns and three well-preserved leather shoes, were retrieved from the well, most likely representing a deliberate symbolic closure of the feature when the settlement was abandoned. 90

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A Hoard of Military Awards, Jewellery and Coins from Colchester

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‘Written in Bone’: New Discoveries about the Lives and Burials of Four Roman Londoners

‘Written in Bone’: New Discoveries about the Lives and Burials of Four Roman Londoners

A Hoard of Military Awards, Jewellery and Coins from Colchester – Corrigendum

6. East Anglia

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