The Second Belgic Invasion

Christopher Hawkes; G. C. Dunning

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The Second Belgic Invasion

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Christopher Hawkes and

G. C. Dunning

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‘Was there’, asks Mrs. Cunnington in the January number of this Journal, ‘a Second Belgic Invasion (represented by bead-rim pottery)?’ The answer on her last page is that it ‘remains extremely doubtful’. Her article is in fact a vigorous challenge to belief in this invasion, as maintained by us in a paper published last year, entitled ‘The Belgae of Gaul and Britain’. To this paper she does not indeed allude by name, for her notice is confined to one or its six sections only. In bringing the issue here once more under discussion, we feel bound to restore this section to its context, if only to give it no more importance than its due, for there are sundry points that have thus lain outside the scope of Mrs. Cunnington's article which may nevertheless perhaps prove important in estimating the matter as a whole. We will follow her arguments in order.

Type: Research Article
Information: The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 12 , Issue 4 , October 1932 , pp. 411 - 430

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581500044127 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1932

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^{page 411 note 1} Antiq. Journ., xii, pp. 27–34.

^{page 411 note 2} Archaeological Journ., lxxxvi, pp. 150–335.

^{page 411 note 3} Swarling Urnfield (Soc. Ant. Research Committee Report no. v, 1925), p. 27Google Scholar.

^{page 412 note 1} Hengistbury Head (Soc. Ant. Research Committee Report no. iii, 1915), p. 47Google Scholar.

^{page 417 note 1} For list of sites see Appendix II of our paper (pp. 330–5).

^{page 417 note 2} Wilts. Arch. Mag., xxxvi, pp. 125–39; May, Silchester Pottery, pp. 6ff., 161 ff.

^{page 418 note 1} Num. Chron., 1877, pp. 309 f.

^{page 419 note 1} Swarling Report, pp. 36–7.

^{page 419 note 2} Hengistbury Head Report, pp. 24–6.

^{page 419 note 3} Pitt-Rivers, Excavations, i, pp. 151–2, pl. liv; ii, p. 188, pl. cxxiv.

^{page 419 note 4} Warne, Ancient Dorset, p. 154.

^{page 419 note 5} Wilts. Arch. Mag. xliii, p. 182, pl. iii, E–F; p. 332, pl. IV, L.

^{page 419 note 6} Ibid., xxxviii, p. 277.

^{page 419 note 7} St. Catharine's Hill, 182–6.

^{page 419 note 8} Wilts. Arch. Mag. xxxviii, p. 89, note.

^{page 420 note 1} Arch. Cambridge Region, pp. 79–80.

^{page 420 note 2} Antiq. Journ. iv, p. 355 and fig. 14.

^{page 420 note 3} Proc. Spelaeological Soc., Bristol, II, iii, pp. 238–43.

^{page 420 note 4} Fox, Arch. Cambridge Region, pp. 76–7.

^{page 421 note 1} Wilts. Arch. Mag. x, p. 90.

^{page 421 note 2} Devizes Mus. Cat. p. 16, x 40 (pl. vi, 4).

^{page 421 note 3} Typical pottery and other recent finds are in the Spelaeological Museum at Bristol University.

^{page 421 note 4} The Antiquary, xlv, pp. 326 ff., 419 ff., 451 ff.

^{page 421 note 5} Wilts. Arch. Mag. xlii, pp. 489–90.

^{page 421 note 6} Proc. Hants Field Club, x, pt. 2, pp. 181–2, 193–5.

^{page 421 note 7} Wilts. Arch. Mag. xxxviii, pp. 77–9.

^{page 421 note 8} Ibid. xlii, p. 373.

^{page 421 note 9} Ibid, xliii, p. 344.

^{page 421 note 10} Antiq. Journ. v, pp. 31–2.

^{page 421 note 11} Private information.

^{page 421 note 12} Arch. Journ. lvii, pp. 60–2.

^{page 422 note 1} Quoted ibid.

^{page 422 note 2} Arch. Cant, xxvi, pp. 11–12.

^{page 422 note 3} Extended skeleton in flat grave with locally-made butt-shaped pot, found in 1929 near Eastbourne: Antiq. Journ. xi, pp. 71–3.

^{page 422 note 4} Proc. Soc. Antiq. 1st ser., iv, p. 188.

^{page 422 note 5} B.M. Early Iron Age Guide, pp. 134–5.

^{page 422 note 6} Proc. Soc. Antiq. xxv, p. 189.

^{page 422 note 7} St. Catharine's Hill, p. 176.

^{page 422 note 8} Excavations, i, pp. 35–6; ii, pp. 191–8.

^{page 423 note 1} Section IV of our paper (pp. 263 ff.).

^{page 422 note 2} Bell. Gall. viii, 24, 1: ‘ex oppidis demigrare, ex agris diffugere ad praesens imperium evitandum.’

^{page 422 note 3} Bell. Gall. viii, 19, 8.

^{page 424 note 1} Ibid. 48, 9.

^{page 424 note 2} Frontinus' account (Strat. ii, 13, 1) shows that he was not escaping as a single fugitive: he gives his orders to a regular fleet.

^{page 424 note 3} Bell. Gall. iv, 21, 7–8; 27, 2–4.

^{page 424 note 4} See our Sections I and II, pp. 157–82, 183–240.

^{page 425 note 1} Pp. 194–7.

^{page 426 note 1} ‘Hill-forts’: Antiquity, v, pp. 60 ff., quoted in our paper, p. 299.

^{page 426 note 2} Ibid. 93.

^{page 426 note 3} The distribution-map, which first appeared in Antiquity, v, 91, as fig. 14, was reproduced as fig. 29 in our paper, p. 301.

^{page 427 note 1} Devizes Mus. Cat. pt. ii, p. 41, no. 314 (pl. xxiii, 1); pottery, ibid., pp. 95–6, nos. 838–47. We regret that the pedestalled vessel (no. 841) was accidentally omitted from our list (Appendix I), where it should have followed the example from Oare (Wilts. Arch. Mag. xxxvi. 132, pl. v, F) on p. 329.

^{page 427 note 2} Wilts. Arch. Mag. xxxv, pp. 416 ff., 426 ff.

^{page 427 note 3} All Cannings Cross, p. 195.

^{page 427 note 4} Wilts. Arch. Mag. xlii, pp. 368–9.

^{page 428 note 1} Wilts. Arch. Mag. xxxv, p. 414.

^{page 428 note 2} Excavations, ii, pp. 233 ff.

^{page 428 note 3} In section III, op. cit. p. 245, and relic-table, p. 271.

^{page 428 note 4} Ibid. p. 273.

^{page 428 note 5} Ibid. pp. 246, 274.

^{page 428 note 6} St. Catharine's Hill, pp. 78, 166.

^{page 428 note 7} Antiquity, v, p. 92.

^{page 428 note 8} Ibid, v, p. 90.

^{page 429 note 1} Wessex from the Air, pp. 116–18, pl. xvii.

^{page 429 note 2} Proc. Hants. Field Club, x, pt. ii, p. 184 (pl. vi, 48); cf. Déchelette, Manuel, II, iii, p. 1321.

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