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Lucerna 58, January 2020
Adam Parker
A Marble Relief of the 'All-Suffering Eye' in Woburn Abbey
6
Roland Cobbett
The Colliton Park Dice Tower and others Made of Wood and Bone
10
Summer L. Courts and Timothy M. Penn
A Corpus of Gaming Boards from Roman Britain
4
Alastair Willis
An Anthropomorphic Cosmetic Mortar from Flintham, Nottinghamshire
13
Gil Burleigh and Ralph Jackson
AImages of Silenius from the Territoriu, of Romano-British Baldock
4 Natasha Harlow
Roman Bone Gaming Counters from Caistor St Edmund
8
Michael Marshall
An Anthropomorphic Clasp-Knife Handle
from the Thames Foreshore at London5
Jörn Schuster
Is there such a thing as a Roman Slate Stylus?
8
Gil Burleigh
Finds from Sacred Places in the
Landscape around Romano-British Baldock5
Piercebridge, County Durham
Mystery Objects
19
Michael Marshall
Stained Bone Hairpins from Roman London
6
RFG
Spring Conference, St Albans
11
Can you help?
Linchpins and a Silver Finger-ring
6
Adam Parker
A Copper-Bowl with Phallic Decoration from Trier,
in the Collection of the Yorkshire Museum5
Martin J. Dearne
A Crossed Line:
A Slightly Different (?Military) Harness Mount9
Adam Parker
Mystery Object:
A Gold Plaque in the Yorkshire Museum10
David Sherlock
Bringing Writing Tablets to Life
11
Glynn J.C. Davis
Bone Spatulate Strips From Roman London
6
Tatiana Ivleva
Ongoing Research:
Global Glass Adornments Event Horizon in the
Late Iron Age and Roman Period Frontiers
(100 BC - AD 250)15
Ben Paites
The Manufacture and Symbolism of Radiating
Designs on Brooches in Roman Britain14-21
John Pearce, Sally Worrell and Frank Basford
Mars, Roma or Love. Actually?
A New Monogram Brooch from Britain22-23
Philip Smither
Ongoing Research:
Romano-British Weighing Instruments24-25
Humphreys, 0wen and Marshall, Michael
“The same, but different”: a miscellany of ‘Bügelzangen’ and related objects from Roman London
4-14
K. Adams, D. Boughton, A. Byard, R. Griffiths, M. Phelps, D. Williams, J. Pearce and S. Worrell
From figurines to fob-danglers: finds from PAS
25-29
Barbara Birley,
Keeping up appearances: the wooden hair combs from Vindolanda
5
Gill Dunn
Recent finds from Chester focusing on finds from the amphitheatre
5
Nicholas Ford
EXPLORING SECONDARY USE AND MEANING IN ROMAN COINS WITH REFERENCE TO A NUMMUS OF DIOCLETIAN
8-10
Greep, Stephen and Marshall, Michael
Brigantian immigrants to Londinium? New finds of perforated bone ‘spoons’
2-7
Worrell, Sally
Mystery objects (bronze ?vessel fragment with relief, gilded disc brooch, and ithyphallic figurines)
21
Dobson, Rebecca
Ritual or refuse? A summary of an artefact assemblage from the river Tees, Piercebridge
2-4
Lydamore, Chris with Hall, Jenny and Jackson, Ralph
Nodge Nolan obituary
5-6
Greep, Stephen
Red deer at the end of Roman Britain- a change in diet, hunting practices or new industrial processes?
7-9
Wardle, Angela and Marshall, Michael
Two obsidian objects from Roman London (probably handles)
1-2
Worrell, Sally and Pearce, John
A selection of Roman artefacts recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme in 2012
4-8
Greep, Stephen
Some more fishes? (bone fish pendants)
13
Bowsher, Julian and Marshall, Michael
A first glance at two prehistoric objects from Roman London
Cool, Hilary; Briggs, Stephen; Irving, Pam; Ward, Margaret; Henig, Martin
Glenys Lloyd-Morgan: an appreciation; the life; the young archaeologist; Glenys at Chester; Glenys and Venus
1-5
Crummy, Nina
Glenys Lloyd-Morgan: a bibliography
5-8
Swift, Ellen
An Iron Age helmet from Kent
9
Henig, Martin
The Silchester eagle: a comment
32-33
Durham, Emma
The Silchester eagle
7-8
Greep, Stephen
Five little fishes…or more? (bone fish pendants)
8-11
Mackreth, Donald
Dragonesque brooches (list including PAS items)
11-12
de Jersey, Philip
Jersey: a new coin hoard (iron age coins)
12
Friendship-Taylor, Roy
Mystery object
13
Friendship-Taylor, Roy and Greep, Stephen
A Claudian pit-group of bone hinges and box fittings from a ‘military’ latrine pit beneath the Piddington phase 1b proto-villa
2-9
Mackreth, Donald
Brooches needing a home (plea from specialist who wants to return finds to excavators)
9-10
Statton, Michelle
A follow-up on the AHRC collaborative doctoral awards, with an introduction to a study on dress, adornment and identity in late Iron Age and Roman Britain
16-19
Aggujaro, Angela
Roman razor from Bishop’s Cleeve, Cheltenham
3-5
Ferris, Iain
Images of disabled and Africans/black people (plea for information)
7
Dearne, Martin
A flagon lid from Enfield and a note on the type
3-5
Feugère, Michel
The Artefacts Project: an encyclopaedia of archaeological small finds
4-6
McIntosh, Frances
Wirral brooch: a regional variant of Roman bow brooch
3-5
Sherlock, David
Towards a typology of Romano-British spoons
5-8
Reynolds, Julie
A puzzling object from South Wales- any clues gratefully received (unusual pair of tweezers)
8
Payne, Naomi and Durham, Emma
The little horse from Chalk Pit Field, Sedgeford, Norfolk.
9-10
McIntosh, Frances
Brooch patterns? (lead trumpet brooch)
10
Daubney, Adam
Romano-British ‘ToT’ rings- some variations
3-4
Crummy, Nina
Evidence for an Isis cult in Colchester
4-5
Timby, Jane and Rigby, Val
Gallo-Belgic pottery database
5
Hobbs, Richard
British Museum collections now just one click away
6-7
Friendship Taylor, Roy (with Feugère, Michel)
Mystery object identified (as Etruscan strainer) (see Lucerna 35)
13-14
O’Riordan, Emma Jane
Small finds in the bigger picture: 3D scanning of archaeological objects for education and interpretation
3-10
Henig, Martin
A valedictory forbidding mourning (retrospective on his career as a small finds expert)
10-11
Dearne, Martin
A little poser from Enfield (possible Roman horse harness mount)
11-13
Dawson, Alan
‘Minerva’ wax spatula handle from near Norwich
2
Friendship-Taylor, Roy
Mystery object
2
Williams, Sandie
Plea for bells
3
Scott, Wendy
Possible temple site in Leicestershire
3
Webb, Dave
A patera/trulleum from Clay Farm, Cambridgeshire. Notes from ongoing research and the development of an online resource
2-5
Lydamore, Chris
A bath saucer from near Harlow, Essex
6
Lydamore, Chris
A possible method of producing barbed projectile heads in the late Roman period
6-8
Mould, Quita
A double-headed button and loop fastener from Reighton, North Yorkshire
2-6
Shaffrey, Ruth
The puddingstone rotary querns from Springhead Roman town, Kent
6-10
Kiernan, Philip
The Roman model objects project
2-3
Hobbs, Richard
Unusual silver spoon fragment
4
Crummy, Nina
A jug handle from Silchester
4-6
Schuster, Jorn et al
A late 5th – 6th century context (for a brooch) from Springhead, Kent
2-3
Jackson, Ralph
Unusual greyhound brooch
4
Hill, JD & Crummy, Nina
Late Iron-Age shears from Hertfordshire
2-4
Pooley, Laura
A gilded bone hairoin from Colchester
5
Puls, Jodi
Roman hairpins from Hampshire
6
Watters, Julian
Figurine of Harpcrates
7
Hobbs, Richard
Unusual Roman ‘test piece’
8
Williams, Sandie
Two bone stoppers from Silchester
9
Jackson, Ralph
An enamelled bronze pan from Staffordshire Moorlands, England: a souvenir from Hadrian’s Wall
10
Palmer, John
Catalogue of Roman Purbeck mortars
2-4
Major, Hilary
A pincer-type brooch from Southwark
5
Booth, Paul
Late Roman spurs from Lankhills, Winchester
6
Crummy, Nina
An unusual lamp from Colchester
7
Reece, Richard
The new Corinium Museum
8-9
Williams, Sandie
Tubular ferrules
9-11
Cool, Hilary
Brooches and moulds from Dymock
22
Jackson, Ralph
An unusual weapon find from Roman Britain
2-3
Wallace, Colin
(Portable) pine cone symbolism in Roman Britain
4-6
Friendship-Taylor, Roy
A new pair of Agathangelus type tweezers from Piddington Roman villa
6
Eckardt, Hella & Crummy, Nina
Presenting the body – toilet instruments in Roman Britain
7
Tracey, Justine
Purbeck marble inscriptions in Silchester
8-10
Minter, Faye
Strap fasteners from Suffolk
12-14
Worrell, Sally
Some new late Roman rivet spurs
20-22
Crummy, Nina
Using the Portable Antiquities Scheme data for research (using nail cleaners as a source)
23-27
Major, Hilary
The dating of Puddingstone querns
2-4
Bolton, Angie
Ox-head bucket mounts – a plea for details
4-5
Cool, Hilary
A soldier from Herculaneum
5-7
Hoffman, Birgitta
A brief note on the end date of the Cipius Polybius skillets
8-9
Herepath, Nick
A survey of Roman brooches from Cheshire
9-12
Herepath, Nick
‘Jelly baby’ mounts from Yorkshire
13
Crummy, Nina
And there’s more (wax spatula handles)
21
Tongue, James
Seal boxes from Britain – a morphological review
23-41
Jackson, Ralph
A new treasure and a new goddess for Roman Britain
2-4
Crummy, Nina
Hunter-god handle from Yorkshire
5-6
McSloy, Ed
A zoomorphic clasp-knife handle from Gloucester
6-8
Cambridge, Owen & Watt, Tommy
The northernmost Roman brooch from Britain
8
Feugere, Michel
Penknives from Newstead: writing accessories
9-11
Hobbs, Richard
New iron Age site from East Leicestershire
12-14
Pugsley, Paola
Pasta shapes
14-15
Croom, Alex
Sexing brooches
16-19
Eckardt, Hella & Hobbs, Richard
An unusual decorated candlestick from Springhead, Kent
2-5
Robinson, Dan & Clarke, Vanessa
Possible temple inscription found in Chester
6
Grew, Francis & Brown, Gary
Londiniensium – cast in stone
7-8
Snape, Margaret
A worked stone from the vicus at South Shields (Arbeia)
8
Jackson, Ralph & Friendship-Taylor, Roy
The Piddington gladiator clasp-knife
9-11
Hill, JD
A pair of silver penannular brooches from Wheathampstead
11-12
Wardle, Angela
Ivory implements from London
12-13
Worrell, Sally
More Minerva bust wax spatula handles
13
Crummy, Nina
Other types of wax spatula from Britain
14-17
Pugsley, Paola
An item of Roman coopered furniture from Dorchester (Dorset)
7-10
Worrell, Sally
Some portable antiquities from Hampshire and Wiltshire
13-14
Geake, Helen
New wax spatula from Suffolk
14-15
Greep, Stephen
More amulets (Silchester)
15
Eckardt, Hella
Candlesticks in Roman Britain
15-16
Cool, Hilary
The Catterick Gallus
18-21
Major, Hilary
Roman decorated iron styli
2-6
Crummy, Nina
Wax spatula handle from Yorkshire
6-8
Johns, Catherine
A gold amulet-pendant from Eaton Constantine, Shropshire
9-10
Dunn, Gillian
Bronze vessels from Middlewich
11
Eckardt & Crummy
Ivory folding-knife handle from Silchester
12-13
Abauzit, Pierre
No more mystery? Bone phalluses - an explanation for the mystery widgets in Lucerna 22
13-14
Harrison, Emma
Box appeal – boxes found from Grateley South, Hants
14-15
Codreanu-Windauer, Silvia & Bartei, Antja
(Trans, Eckardt & Crummy)
Spindle, Whorl, Pot – a remarkable group of grave goods from Bavaria
17-27
Crummy, Nina
Nail-cleaners: regionality at the clean edge of Empire
2-6
Wardle, Angela
Mystery widgets – 2 unusual bone objects from London
7
Stokes, Mike with contributions from Henig, M & Johns, C
Rings and things
7-8
Pugsley, Paola
Etruscan hinged shoes
9-10
Penny, Stephen
Lead salt pans
11
Cotton, Jon
Bibliography of sets of gaming counters
12-13
Pugsley, Paola
Of Timotei and boxwood combs
3-6
Hembrey, Nicola
Help needed – mystery sandstone ?table fragment
7
Crummy, Nina
Toy storey – stacked counters from Colchester
7
Carter, Barry
Two lead bull heads from Cambridgeshire
7-8
Paynton, Ceinwen
Button-and-loop fasteners in a Roman province: A step towards a regional typology?
8-9
Pugsley, Paola
Wooden combs and niche markets
9-10
Cooke, Nick
Antler combs, big hair and the Mafia in late Roman Britain – an e-mail correspondence
3-7
Eckardt, Hella
An imported candlestick from Silchester
8
Crummy, Nina
An unusual brooch from Heybridge
8-9
Carter, Barry
A lead model from St Albans
10
Crummy, Nina et al
Agathangelus stamp
10-11
Snape, Margaret
Some unusual brooches from Arbeia Roman fort, South Shields
12
Cool, Hilary
Hairstyles and lifestyles
3-6
Crummy, Nina
A late Roman grave group from Durobrivae
7-10
Cool Hilary
Surfing the database
9-10
Allason-Jones, Lindsay
Gilding the black lily
11-12
Carter Barry
Lead brooches from Gloucester
12-13
Cooper, Nick
Mystery objects from excavations at Scole, Norfolk/Suffolk 1993-94
3-6
Crimmins, Julia &
Keally, Claire
A fibula in Dublin
6-8
Riddler, Ian
Hone News from Abroad: The Clausentium Lamella
3
Guest, Peter
Johns, Catherine
The Hoxne Hoard – an update
4-8
Dearne, Martin
Research into Brooch Catchplate Return Decoration
3-4
Allen, Vincent
Mystery objects from Clausentium
- bone objects
6
Pollard, Richard
A ceramic cult figure from Leicester
Longer version published in Britannia 29 (1998)
2-4
Hoffman, Birgitta
Millefiori gaming counters
5-6
Ponting, Matthew
Roman Military Metalwork from Masada and Gamla, Israel: the chemistry of soldier and civilian in first century Palestine
7-9
Cool, Hilary
Panelled enamel vessels
2-3
Snape, Margaret
First century brooches on the northern frontier
2-5
Mackreth, Don
Colchesters in the North
5-8
Seeley, Fiona
An enigmatic object from Scole
12
Lucerna 10, November 1995
Wallace, Colin
Gallo-Roman clay figurines: how to find your way around the literature
2-5
Dearne, Martin
Spoon brooches
6
Wise, Philip
A fragment of Roman silver plate from Ratley and Upton
7-8
Lucerna 9, June 1995
Dearne, Martin
A burning question (Roman coal use in Britain)
(Later article published:
Dearne, M. I. & Branigan K. The use of coal in Roman Bntain Ant. J.75 (1995), 71-105)
3-4
Seeley, Fiona
Roman doorbells
5-6
Lucerna 8, March 1994
Croom, Alex & Snape, Margaret
Grave goods from the cemetery at Arbeia Roman fort, South Shields
1-2
Lucerna 7, April 1993
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Lucerna 6, July 1992
Cool, Hilary
Introducing - Empty Vessels Signifying Something: An introduction to the common types of drinking vessels found on Romano-British sites
4-8
Kennett, D H
Introducing – An Introduction to late Roman bronze vessels and their literature
9-13
Lucerna 5, February 1992
Snape, Margaret
A Roman or Sub Roman Brooch
2-3
Clay, Patrick
Lead seal rewrites history
– Roman lead seal from Thorpe by Glebe
4-5
Lucerna 4, September 1991
Mackreth, Don
Brooch stamps in third-century Britain
2-3
Appleton, Graham
An introduction to the literature on Roman garden decoration with special reference to sculpture
4-8
Lucerna 3, January 1991
Jones, Christine
Annum Novum Faustum Felicem Mihi!
- Ceramic lamp celebrating the New Year
3-4
Davies, John
A late Roman bronze punch from Hampshire
5-7
Dearne, Martin
A Hebridean brooch
8
Bishop, Mike
An introduction to the literature on Lorica Segmentata
9-12
Davies, John
An introduction to the literature on Roman coins from British sites
13-16
Lucerna 2, Spring 1990
Evans, David
Column base from the extra-mural settlement at Caerleon: Gwent
7-9
Jones, Christine
An identification problem unhinged – bone hinges
10-12
Lloyd-Morgan, Glynnis
An introduction to Roman mirrors and their literature
13-18
Bayley, Justine
Castleford moulds – bronze flask
(Request for parallels)
4
Clay, Patrick
A Roman clasp knife from the Shires excavation, Leicester
5-6
Cool, Hilary
An introduction to the literature on Romano-British brooches
8-12
Duncan, Holly
Roman boxwood comb
13-15
Summer L. Courts and Timothy M. Penn A Corpus of Gaming Boards from Roman Britain 4 Alastair Willis An Anthropomorphic Cosmetic Mortar
from Flintham, Nottinghamshire13
Summer L. Courts and Timothy M. Penn A Corpus of Gaming Boards from Roman Britain 4 Alastair Willis An Anthropomorphic Cosmetic Mortar from Flintham, Nottinghamshire 13
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