Description of a Remarkable Deposit of Roman Antiquities of Iron, Discovered at Great Chesterford, Essex, in 1854
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11616385 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Cornwallis Neville |
| Year | 1856 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-13 |
| Publication date | 1856-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archaeological Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0066-5983 • E-ISSN: 2373-2288 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00665983.1856.10850997 |
| OpenAlex | W2325741203 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
THE discovery of a shaft or cavity filled with Roman implements and objects of iron, in most perfect preservation, has been noticed in a former volume of this Journal. 1 A detailed description was then given of the numerous deep pits at Chesterford, filled with black mould, and containing Roman reliques and debris in great variety.The nature of the receptacle which I now propose to describe would have entitled it to a place in that communication, had it been possible to do justice at that time to a discovery, which, from its importance and singular character, seemed worthy of a separate memoir.In order to introduce the subject properly, it is necessary to describe some of the contents of the ground in close proximity to the pit which contained the iron, without reference to the numerous other shafts in the same locality.On the 3rd of January, 1854, a sort of square grave was opened by my labourers in the Rectory grounds at Great Chesterford ; this contained four skeletons, three of them lying intermingled, the fourth at some little distance.Six armlets of bronze, plain and ornamented, of Roman type, a slight bronze finger ring, the neck and shoulders of an elegant two-handled glass bottle, an iron faL•, a buckle, a ladle, and a dark coloured vase, broken, were found with the three first; with the fourth skeleton, was found a bronze ring upon the bone supposed to be that of the middle finger, and, besides a bronze bracelet, two iron knives, and a
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Archaeological Research and Protection · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geology · History · Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,12 |
| Citation span | 1984 - 2017 (34) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |