A Romano-British Roadside Settlement near Beanacre, Wiltshire by Cai Mason

Author:Cai Mason [Mason, Cai]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Ancient, Rome, Europe, Great Britain, General, Social Science, Archaeology
ISBN: 9781911137085
Google: -mqaswEACAAJ
Publisher: Wessex Archaeology Limited
Published: 2018-01-15T22:24:25+00:00

Other Finds

by Elina Brook

With the exception of the worked flint, coins and pottery (see above) all other material categories have been grouped and are presented here according to functional categories following Crummy (1983, 5−6).

Personal Adornment or Dress

Brooches

Seven copper alloy brooches or brooch-related objects were found. Bow brooches include the upper part of a small hinged strip-bow brooch (Fig. 3.12, 1) possibly of 1st-century AD date, a possible Polden Hill type brooch (Fig. 3.12, 2) from pit 1697, and a South-western T-shaped brooch (Fig. 3.12, 3) from posthole 1739, similar to one from Uley (Butcher 1993, 152, fig. 124, 5). Both the Polden Hill and South-western T-shaped brooches are datable to the second half of the 1st century into the first half of the 2nd century AD. Pit 1527 contained an almost complete, small, enamelled rectangular plate brooch (Fig. 3.12, 4, and back cover), along with the remains of food debris including pig bones. An almost identical brooch was found at Old Sarum, Wiltshire and dated to the 2nd century AD (Hattatt 2000, 349, fig. 208, 586), whilst a further, very similar item was found at Broughton, Hampshire (Shoemark 2014, PAS WILT-596884). The bow and partial catchplate of a small brooch of unidentifiable type was found unstratified, whilst brooch-related items consist of one sprung brooch pin (layer 1308) and one hinged brooch pin (oven 1157).

Hairpins

Two hairpins were found (Fig. 3.12, 5 and 6), one of copper alloy and one of bone. The copper alloy example has a spherical decorated head (Fig. 3.12, 5) and falls within Cool’s group 13 (Cool 1990, 164), possibly dating to the 2nd century AD. The group 13 types typically have a distribution centred on the West Country, but more local examples include a similar object from Kingscote, Gloucestershire (Redknap 1998, 93, fig. 54, 1.5). The bone hairpin (Fig. 3.12, 6) is of Crummy type 6 (1983, 24), dated from the 2nd century AD onwards. Both came from late Romano-British deposits (ditch 1915 and layer 1161 respectively).

Beads

Two small glass beads were recovered. Layer 1161 contained a complete blue-green cylinder bead (Fig. 3.12, 7; 18 mm long, 6 mm diameter). Clear striations are visible along its length, indicating that it may be of late Romano-British date (Guido 1978, 94, fig. 37.4). The second bead (ON 38; late Romano-British robber trench 1923) is incomplete; it is dark blue in colour, teardrop-shaped and broken at the narrower end.

A possible copper alloy bullae pendant (Fig. 3.12, 8) was found in the phase 2 deposits of early Romano-British Building 1. These items were worn like a locket around the necks of male children to protect against evil spirits and forces.

Bracelets

One fragment from a plain, lathe-turned shale bracelet came from late Romano-British ditch 1933. The internal edge is slightly chamfered, with a diameter of approximately 50 mm. Such objects were in use from at least the late 1st century to the end of the Roman period (Lawson 1976, 248−50). A tapering strip of copper alloy (pit 1802) may also be from a bracelet.

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