The Ruins of the Roman City of Uriconium, at Wroxeter, near ShrewsburyWright, Thomas
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The Ruins of the Roman City of Uriconium, at Wroxeter, near Shrewsbury
Wright, Thomas
Romans -- England -- Wroxeter; Wroxeter (England) -- Antiquities, Roman
1. Hair pins, in great variety; more than 30 specimens have been found
made usually of bone; with some of bronze, but these are much more
slender. _Pl._ 11.
2. Bodkins or needles made of bone.
3. Fibulæ, and buckles in great variety.
4. Bracelets or armlets, and brooch.
5. Bronze studs or buttons, some flat, and others very convex.
6. Finger rings:—_a_. silver; _b_. yellow bronze; _c_. bronze, with iron
wire; _d_. bronze, with open work on one side; _e_. fragment of one of
wood; _f_. iron signet ring: device engraved upon a blue stone, a fawn
coming out of a nautilus shell.
7. Combs made of bone, one much ornamented. _Pl._ 10, _figs._ 5, 6.
8. Beads of glass of various sizes, some large to suspend round the
neck, others to string together upon a thread.
9. Bronze bracelet of twisted work.
COINS.
1. Coins found in the present excavations at Wroxeter.
2. Coins found at Wroxeter, at different times, and given to the Museum.
3. The coins found with a skeleton in the hypocaust.
4. Coining-mould of baked clay. Julia Domna.
CINERARY URNS.
1. Large red earthenware urn, containing human hones (burnt), inclosed
in an outer urn of lead, which was brought from Wroxeter many years ago.
2. Another Cinerary urn of black pottery, containing burnt human bones,
found in a field adjoining the cemetery, and outside the town walls.
Purchased by the secretary.
3. A large Cinerary urn, found in the recent excavations, ten inches
high, and thirty in circumference, almost entire, containing bones, but
not human.—_See pl._ 13, _fig._ 2.
4. Cinerary urns in red and black pottery of various sizes, from 4 to 12
inches high. Some contained burnt human bones and unguent
bottles.—(Cemetery.) Many small flask-shaped bottles were found, some
broken, some entire, some which had evidently been exposed to heat. Oily
matter was detected in one; hence they have been termed unguent
bottles.—(Cemetery.)
V.
MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS.
MEDICINE STAMP, found at Wroxeter in 1808, by Mr. Upton; purchased from
his family in 1859, by the late Beriah Botfield, Esq., M.P., who
presented it to the Museum.
1. Oyster shells in great number; shells of some nut found in an oyster
shell.
2. Remains of small animals and birds.
3. Nondescript articles in iron, shapeless masses of lead, innumerable
fragments of pottery, bone, &c.
4. Fragments of horn and bone which have been cut with a saw or other
tool.
5. Fragments of bone, which have been turned in a lathe.
6. Inscribed sepulchral stone with Latin inscription, partly legible.
There has been a statue on the top.—(Cemetery.)
7. A skiff-shaped vessel in bronze, with round handle, and a lid which
closed with a catch.
8. Several legs of the fighting cock, with very large natural spurs.
9. Roundels, formed chiefly from the bottoms of earthenware vessels,
perhaps used in some game; others made with a hole in the centre.
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