Roman Britain in 1914

Roman Britain in 1914, by F.
Haverfield

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[Illustration: FIG. 1. POTTERY STAMPS AND STAMPED
POTTERY FROM HOLT.
(A) Head of Silenus (1/1). Probably an artist's die, for casting stamps

for stamped ware (p. 20)
(B) Fragment of stamped ware (1/1), with ornament imitated from
Samian (p. 19)
(C) STAMP FOR MORTARIUM (1/1)]

THE BRITISH ACADEMY SUPPLEMENTAL PAPERS. III

Roman Britain in 1914

By Professor F. Haverfield
Fellow of the Academy

London: 1915 Published for the British Academy By Humphrey
Milford, Oxford University Press Amen Corner, E.C.
[Transcribers Note: Professor Francis Haverfield]

TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 4
PREFACE 5
A. RETROSPECT OF FINDS MADE IN 1914 7
(a) Raedykes, near Stonehaven; Wall of Pius; Traprain Law;
Northumberland (Featherwood, Chesterholm, Corbridge); Weardale (co.

Durham); Appleby; Ambleside (fort at Borrans); Lancaster; Ribchester;
Slack (near Huddersfield); Holt; Cardiff; Richborough.
(b) Wroxeter; Lincoln; Gloucester; London; country houses and farms;
Lowbury (Berkshire); Beachy Head, Eastbourne; Parc-y-Meirch (North
Wales) 21
B. ROMAN INSCRIPTIONS FOUND IN 1914 29
Balmuildy (Wall of Pius); Traprain Law; Featherwood (altar);
Chesterholm (two altars); Corbridge (inscribed tile); Weardale (bronze
paterae); Holt (centurial stone and tile); Lincoln; London; rediscovered
milestone near Appleby.
C. PUBLICATIONS RELATING TO ROMAN BRITAIN IN 1914.
1. General 38
2. Special sites or districts 41
APPENDIX: LIST OF PERIODICALS HAVING REFERENCE TO
ROMAN BRITAIN 64
INDEX OF PLACES 67

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE
1. Pottery-stamps and stamped pottery from Holt (see p. 19)
Frontispiece
2. Plan of Roman Fort at Borrans, Ambleside. From a plan by Mr. R. G.
Collingwood 10
3. Sketch plan of Principia (Praetorium) of Roman Fort at Ribchester.
After a plan by Mr. D. Atkinson and Prof. W. B. Anderson 13

4. Sketch plan of part of the Roman Fort at Slack. From a plan by
Messrs. A. Woodward and P. Ross 14
5. Holt, plan of site 16
6. Holt, plan of barracks 17
7. Holt, plan of dwelling-house and bath-house 17
8. Holt, plan of kilns 18
9. Holt, reconstruction of the kilns shown in fig. 8 18
10, 11. Holt, stamped 'imitation Samian' ware 20
(Figs. 1 and 5-11 are from photographs or drawings lent by Mr. A.
Acton, of Wrexham)
12. Sketch plan of Roman bath-house at East Grimstead, after a plan by
Mr. Heywood Sumner 24
13. Sketch plan of Romano-British house at North Ash, after a plan
prepared by the Dartford Antiquarian Society 25
14. Plan of Romano-British house at Clanville. After a plan by the Rev.
G. Engleheart, in Archaeologia 26
15. Fragment of inscription found at Balmuildy 29
16. Altar found at Chesterholm, drawn from a photograph 31
17-19. Graves and grave-nails, Infirmary Field, Chester. From
drawings and photographs by Prof. Newstead 41-2
20-22. The Mersea grave-mound. From the Report of the Morant Club
and Essex Archaeological Society 43
23, 24. Margidunum, plan and seal-box. From the Antiquary 51

25-28. Plan, section and views of the podium of the temple at Wroxeter.
From the Report by Mr. Bushe-Fox 53
29. General plan of the Roman fort and precincts at Gellygaer. After
plans by Mr. J. Ward 59
30. Postholes at Gellygaer 63
For the loan of blocks 14, 17-20, 21-2, and 23-4, I am indebted
respectively to the Delegates of the Clarendon Press, Prof. Newstead,
and the Liverpool University Press, the Morant Club and the Essex
Archaeological Society, and the publisher of the Antiquary.

PREFACE
The contents of the present volume are of much the same character as
those of its predecessor, 'Roman Britain in 1913'. The first section gives
a retrospect of the chief finds made in 1914, so far as they are known to
me. The second section is a more detailed and technical survey of the
inscriptions found in Britain during that year. The third and longest
section is a summary, with some attempt at estimate and criticism, of
books and articles dealing with Roman Britain which appeared in 1914
or at least bear that date on cover or title-page. At the end I have added,
for convenience, a list of the English archaeological and other
publications which at least sometimes contain noteworthy articles
relating to Roman Britain.
The total, both of finds