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(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.

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

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