Schuster, J., 2016, Review of Session Three: Papers based on finds from York and the Yorkshire Museum. Presentations at the Roman Finds Group Spring Conference: Finds from Roman York, Brigantia and beyond, The University of York, 1st–2nd April 2016, Lucerna 51, 18–20. (original) (raw)
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The Roman pottery from the excavation totalled 140 sherds, weighing 1.469kg, 1.45RE. The condition of the sherds is mostly heavily abraded with few fresh sherds. The majority of the Roman sherds were found stratified with post-Roman finds and could best be considered as 'background noise' from occasional dumping of waste in the area. The freshest material was retrieved from the Plaza area. The majority of the pottery could be dated to the late 1 st to early 3 rd century AD suggesting that this was the main period of activity on the site during the Roman period. A typical range of Ebor wares and grey ware accompanied by samian and amphorae were present. A limited quantity of late Roman pottery was also retrieved including Crambeck grey ware and calcite-gritted ware from the Plaza area.
Recent Portable Antiquities finds from Yorkshire
Briefing Issue 13, 2023
A fully illustrated description of some of the more beautiful and interesting finds from Yorkshire since the summer. It includes various Roman brooches, late Roman 'Hawkes and Dunning' buckles, a complete early medieval hanging bowl, and many other items of interest.
Forum: The Journal of Council for British Archaeology Yorkshire, 2019
The rediscovery of a Roman gold plaque in the collections of the Yorkshire Museum is here recounted, along with the new identification of this object as a funerary mouth-plaque. The plaque is reconnected to a coin and the surviving skeletal remains from its original grave and its potential medicinal and ritual functions are broadly discussed. It is concluded that, at this time, this is believed to be the only example of this object from Roman Britain.
Some recent Roman Portable Finds from Yorkshire
Roman Yorkshire, 2024
Since the last PAS report there seems to have been quite a wealth of finds to report, some quite notable. A few of these have already appeared in Briefing but will bear repetition here. There are some strange coincidences, too!
Artefacts and the study of life in Roman London
Lunchtime lecture in the Gresham College series hosted by the Museum of London, presenting case studies of analysis of Roman artefacts from London at a variety of scales from individual objects to city wide distributions. Please do not cite without permission http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/artefacts-and-the-study-of-life-in-roman-london
2015
This article examines the significance of a major new source of archaeological data from Roman Britannia, the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS), a department within the British Museum responsible for documenting archaeological objects found in England and Wales by members of the public, mainly metal detectorists. Of the more than one million objects now recorded, more than a quarter are Roman in date, documented mainly from what were, in the Roman-period, rural landscapes in eastern England. After outlining their broad character and distribution the article uses two case studies to explore the contribution of this new dataset to understanding rural Britannia, one on brooch types in relation to the study of provincial costume, the other on the new iconographic evidence for the visual culture of the province.
2018
Archive report on the Roman small finds, glass and leather from excavations for Crossrail at Liverpool Street, London. This supplements the full excavation report. The finds come from the extramural area to the north of Roman London and are associated with a road, the adjacent cemetery and dumping around the upper Walbrook valley and the late Roman marsh. Amongst the notable features of the finds assemblage are: a large iron ring on the wrist of a decapitated male inhumation burial, a large group of hipposandals from the road surface and the adjacent ditches, some middle-late Roman militaria and several votive objects. The final published excavation report is 'Ranieri, S, and Telfer, A, 2017 Outside Roman London: roadside burials by the Walbrook stream, Crossrail Archaeol Ser 9, London' and more synthetic/integrated discussion of the finds can be found there. This report has been lodged with the ADS as part of the project archive at https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/xsm10\_crossrail\_2019/downloads.cfm
Review of session three of the 2017 RFG spring conference summarising contributions on priestly regalia in South-East Britain, the Clayton Collection at Corbridge Museum and two adjacent excavations at Ewell, Surrey.