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Some Further Roman Bronzes from Brigstock, Northamptonshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2011

Brian Dix
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 66 , Issue 1 , March 1986 , pp. 126 - 130
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1986

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45 Greenfield, E., ‘The Romano-British shrines at Brigstock, Northants.’, Antiq. J. xliii (1963), 228–63.CrossRefGoogle Scholar The results from re-examination of the site and further excavation in 1970 remain unpublished, but for summaries see: Department of the Environment, Archaeological Excavations, 1970 (London, 1971), 21,Google Scholar and Britannia, ii (1971), 266Google Scholar.

46 cf. aWheeler, H., ‘Two Roman bronzes from Brigstock, Northamptonshire’, Antiq. J. lxi(1981), 309–11CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

47 Taylor, M. V., ‘A Roman bronze statuette from Northamptonshire’, Antiq. J. xxxvii (1957), 71–2;CrossRefGoogle Scholaread., ‘Statuettes of horsemen and horses and other votive objects from Brigstock, Northants.’, Antiq. J. xliii (1963),264–8Google Scholar.

48 In whose possession they remain. They are published here with his permission through the kind offices of Mr Michael Webster. The drawings which illustrate this note were prepare d by Linda Meadows.

49 cf. Antiq. J. xliii (1963), pl. xxxixGoogle Scholar.

50 Greenfield, , op. cit. (note 45), fig. 5, no. 6Google Scholar.

51 cf. Britannia, xvi (1985), 185,Google Scholar fig. 7; see further the article cited in note 54.

52 e.g. Hawkes, C. F. C., ‘Cauldron and bucket animals’ in Grimes, W. F. (ed.), Aspects of Archaeology in Britain and Beyond: Essays presented to O. G. S. Crawford (London, 1951), 172–99,Google Scholar esp. pp. 190-9 with pls. 7-9 and figs. 50-2.

53 Smith, R. A., ‘A peculiar type of Roman bronze pendant’, Proc. Soc. Antiq. 2nd ser.xxx (1917-1918), 54–63.Google Scholar Followed among others by Crummy, N., Colchester Archaeological Report 2. The Roman Small Finds from Excavations in Colchester 1971-9 (Colchester, 1983), 146,Google Scholar citing further refs.

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55 cf. Kirk, J. R., ‘Bronzes from Woodeaton, Oxon.’, Oxoniensia, xiv (1949), 1–45,Google Scholar esp. pp. 32-5. More recently discussed in two papers by aGreen, M. J.: ‘Romano-British non-ceramic model objects in south-east Britain’, Arch. J. cxxxii (1975). 54–70Google Scholar(esp. pp. 59-60) and pp. 256-8 in ‘Model objects from military areas of Roman Britain’, Britannia, xii (1981), 253–69Google Scholar.

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57 A further horse-and-rider statuette found in 1970 shouldbe added to the list of examples published previously (see note 47): cf. summaryreports cited in note 45.

58 Greenfield, , op. cit. (note 45), 238–40Google Scholar.

59 Antiq. J. xliii (1963), 266–7.Google Scholar See also Ross, A., Pagan Celtic Britain. Studies in Iconography and Tradition (London, 1967), 256Google Scholar; Henig, M., Religion in Roman Britain (London, 1984), 51 and 148Google Scholar.

60 Peterborough Museum Identification Report no. 0395. Information by courtesy of the Curator, Mr M. D. Howe.

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62 Todd, M., ‘A relief of a Romano-British warrior-god’, Britannia, ii (1971), 238CrossRefGoogle Scholar and pi. XXXIIIA.

63 cf. the strator tombstone from Irchester, Northants., R.I.B. 233. See also pp. 218-19 of Applebaum, S., ‘Roman Britain’ in Finberg, H. P. R. (ed.), The Agrarian History of England and Wales, i.2:A.D. 43-1042 (Cambridge, 1972), 1–277Google Scholar.