Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-4hhp2 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-05-28T07:11:15.942Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

An Unusual Romano-British Brooch from Norfolk, with a Note upon its Probable Affnities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2010

D.F. Mackreth
D.F. Mackreth
Affiliation:
Peterborough, dfm@globalnet.co.uk
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

A brooch from Marham, Norfolk, is identifed as being a hybrid Colchester Derivative and its relationship with other Colchester Derivatives is discussed. An examination of the basic distribution of the parent of the Marham brooch, the Rearhook, shows that it is of Icenian origin. Discussion of other rare hybrids along with the dating of the parent reveals that, alone of British brooches, the Rearhook has what may be described as an abrupt cut-off date which can be equated with the suppression of the Iceni. Only one hybrid has any development, and that is the one to which the Marham brooch belongs. The fantail foot found on many Rearhooks also has a later history which is examined. The discussion focuses on the dating and distribution of what may be described as ultimate Rearhook derivatives. The early post-Boudiccan history of the Iceni is alluded to and a case presented for the probable deliberate plantation of Icenians at Castleford.

Type
Articles
Information
Britannia , Volume 40 , November 2009 , pp. 137 - 149
Copyright
Copyright © D.F. Mackreth 2009. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Apted, M.R., Gilyard-Beer, T., and Saunders, A.D. 1977: Ancient Monuments and their Interpretation, Essays presented to A.J. Taylor, ChichesterGoogle Scholar
Beresford, G. 1987: Goltho, the Development of an Early Medieval Manor, c. 850–1150, English Heritage Archaeological Report 4, LondonGoogle Scholar
Blockley, K., Blockley, M., Blockley, P., Frere, S.S., and Stow, S. 1995: Excavations in the Marlowe Car Park and Surrounding Areas, The Archaeology of Canterbury 5, CanterburyGoogle Scholar
Brailsford, W. 1962: Hod Hill, Volume One, Antiquities from Hod Hill in the Durden Collection, LondonGoogle Scholar
Bushe-Fox, J.P. 1926: First Report on the Excavation of the Roman Fort at Richborough, Kent, Reports of the Research committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London 6, OxfordCrossRefGoogle Scholar
Butcher, S.A. 1977: ‘Enamels in Roman Britain’, in Apted et al. 1977, 41–70Google Scholar
Cameron, H., and Lucas, J. 1973: ‘Tripontium, Second Interim Report on Excavations by the Rugby Archaeological Society at Cave's Inn, near Rugby, Grid Reference SP.57, 535795’, Trans. Birmingham and Warwickshire Arch. Soc. 85 (1971–1973), 93–144Google Scholar
Clifford, E.M. 1961: Bagendon: A Belgic Oppidum, A Record of the Excavations of 1954–56, cambridgeGoogle Scholar
Cool, H.E.M., and Philo, C. 1998: Roman Castleford, Excavations 1974–1985, Volume I, The Small Finds, Yorkshire Archaeology 4, ExeterGoogle Scholar
Crummy, N. 1983: The Roman Small Finds from Excavations in Colchester, 1971–9, colchester Archaeological Report 2, colchesterGoogle Scholar
Dix, B., and Taylor, S. 1988: ‘Excavations at Bannaventa (Whilton Lodge, Northants.), 1970–1’, Britannia 19, 299–356CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Dool, J., Wheeler, H. et al. 1985: Roman Derby: Excavations 1968–1983, The Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 105Google Scholar
Ellis, P. (ed.) 2000: The Roman Baths and Macellum at Wroxeter, Excavations by Graham Webster, 1955– 85, English Heritage Archaeological Report 9, LondonGoogle Scholar
Esmonde Cleary, A.S., and Ferris, I.M. 1996: Excavations at the New Cemetery, Rocester, Staffordshire, 1985–1987, Staffordshire Archaeological and Historical Society 35, 1993–4Google Scholar
Flitcroft, M. 2001: Excavation of a Romano-British Settlement on the A149, Snettisham Bypass, 1989, East Anglian Archaeology 93 [The author decided to drop the passages giving the dating evidence]Google Scholar
France, N.E., and Gobel, B.M. 1985: The Romano-British Temple at Harlow, GloucesterGoogle Scholar
French, C.A.I. 1994: The Haddon Farmstead and a Prehistoric Landscape at Elton: the Archaeology along the A605 Elton-Haddon Bypass, Cambridgeshire, cambridgeGoogle Scholar
Frere, S. 1987: Britannia, a History of Roman Britain, LondonGoogle Scholar
Frere, S.S., and St Joseph, J.K. 1974: ‘The Roman fortress at Longthorpe’, Britannia 5, 1–129CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gregory, T. 1992: Excavations in Thetford, 1980–1982, Fison Way, East Anglian Archaeology Report 53, GressenhallGoogle Scholar
Hand, A.R. 1993: The Romano-British Roadside Settlement at Wilcote, Oxfordshire, I, Excavations 1990–92, BAR British Series 232, OxfordCrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hands, A.R. 1998: The Romano-British Roadside Settlement at Wilcote, Oxfordshire, II, Excavations 1993–96, BAR British Series 265, OxfordGoogle Scholar
Hattatt, R. 1985: Iron Age and Roman Brooches, a Second Selection of Brooches from the Author's Collection, OxfordGoogle Scholar
Hawkes, C.F.C., and Hull, M.R. 1947: Camulodunum, First Report on the Excavations at Colchester, 1930–1939, Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London 14, OxfordCrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jackson, D.A. 1980: ‘Roman buildings at Ringstead, Northants’, Northamptonshire Archaeology 15, 12–34Google Scholar
Jackson, D., and Dix, B. 1987: ‘Late Iron Age and Roman settlement at Weekley, Northants’, Northamptonshire Archaeology 21, 41–93Google Scholar
Jackson, R.P.J., and Potter, T.W. 1996: Excavations at Stonea, Cambridgeshire, 1980–85, LondonGoogle Scholar
Jones, A.H.M. 1964: The Later Roman Empire, 284–602, a Social Economic and Administration Survey, OxfordGoogle Scholar
Kenyon, K.M. 1948: Excavations at the Jewry Wall Site, Leicester, Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London 15, OxfordCrossRefGoogle Scholar
May, J. 1996: Dragonby, Report on Excavations at an Iron Age and Romano-British Settlement in North Lincolnshire, Oxbow Monograph 61, OxfordGoogle Scholar
Partridge, C. 1979: ‘Excavations at Puckeridge and Braughing, 1975–79’, Hertfordshire Archaeology 7, 28–132Google Scholar
Potter, T.W., and Trow, S.D. 1988: Puckeridge-Braughing, Herts.: The Ermine Street Excavations, 1971–1972, The Late Iron Age and Roman Settlement, Hertfordshire Archaeology 10Google Scholar
Pryor, F., French, C., Crowther, D., Gurney, D., Simpson, G., and Taylor, M. 1985: Archaeology and Environment in the Lower Welland Valley, The Fenland Project 1; East Anglian Archaeology Report 27, DerehamGoogle Scholar
Rahtz, P.A., and Greenfeld, E. 1977: Excavations at Chew Valley Lake, Department of the Environment Archaeological Report 8, LondonGoogle Scholar
Richmond, I.A. 1968: Hod Hill, Volume Two, Excavations carried out between 1951 and 1958 for the Trustees of the British Museum, LondonGoogle Scholar
RIB 1965: R.G. Collingwood and R.P. Wright, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, Volume I, Inscriptions on Stone, OxfordGoogle Scholar
Stead, I.M. 1976: Excavations at Winterton Roman Villa, and other Roman Sites in North Lincolnshire, 1958–1969, Department of the Environment Archaeological Report 9, LondonGoogle Scholar
Stead, I.M. 1980: Rudston Roman Villa, LeedsGoogle Scholar
Stead, I.M., and Rigby, V. 1986: Baldock, The Excavation of a Roman and Pre-Roman Settlement, 1968–72, Britannia Monograph 7, LondonGoogle Scholar
Stead, I.M., and Rigby, V. 1989: Verulamium: the King Harry Lane Site, English Heritage Archaeological Report 12, LondonGoogle Scholar
Timby, J. 1998: Excavations at Kingscote and Wycomb, Gloucestershire, a Roman Estate Centre and Small Town in the Cotswolds, with Notes on Related Settlements, cirencesterGoogle Scholar
Ward-Perkins, J.B. 1938: ‘The Roman Villa at Lockleys, Welwyn’, The Antiquaries Journal 18, 339–76CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Webster, G. 1960: ‘The discovery of a Roman fort at Waddon Hill, Stoke Abbott, 1959’, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 82, 88–108Google Scholar
Wheeler, R.E.M., and Wheeler, T.V. 1936: Verulamium, a Belgic and two Roman Cities, Reports of the Research committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London 11, OxfordCrossRefGoogle Scholar