Principal Contributors: Julie Bond, B. Dickinson, Jeremy Evans, A. P. Fitzpatrick, S. Greep, B. R. Hartley, Jacqueline I. McKinley, Quita Mould, H. W. Pengelly and Fay Worley. Other Contributors: Lindsay Allason-Jones, M. J. Baxter, Justine Bayley, Sarnia Butcher, Gill Campbell, David Dungworth, Martin Henig, Frank Jenkins, Jacqui Watson and Tony Wilmott.
The rescue excavations at Brougham uncovered the largest cemetery associated with a fort in the north yet dug. They revealed a 3rd cemetery where not only the soldiers, but also their wives and children were cremated and buried. The dead were provided with expensive pyre goods, such as elaborately decorated biers, jewellery, military equipment, household items and a wide range of animal offerings including horses. Their remains were generally deposited with pottery vessels including a large number in samian and Rhenish colour-coated wares. There is good evidence that the unit was originally from the Danubian frontier. The volume includes detailed specialist reports on all aspects of the finds and funerary rituals.
Author(s): Hilary E. M. Cool
Series: Britannia Monograph Series, 21
Publisher: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: XXVIII+514
City: London
List of figures ix
List of tables xvii
Acknowledgements xxi
Summary xxiii
Résumé xxv
Zusammenfassung xxvii
1. ROMAN BROUGHAM AND ITS CEMETERY 1
2. THE EXCAVATIONS OF 1966 AND 1967 AND THEIR POST-EXCAVATION HISTORY 9
3. THE CEMETERY: FEATURES AND LAYOUT 21
4. INVENTORY OF THE DEPOSITS 41
5. THE PYRES AND BIERS 267
6. THE HUMAN REMAINS AND ASPECTS OF PYRE TECHNOLOGY AND CREMATION RITUALS by Jacqueline I. McKinley 283
7. THE ANIMAL BONE by Julie M. Bond and Fay L. Worley 311
8. THE VESSELS 333
9. THE PERSONAL ORNAMENTS AND OTHER EQUIPMENT 381
10. THE TOMBSTONES AND INSCRIBED STONES by A. P. Fitzpatrick 405
11. FUNERARY RITES AT 'BROCAVUM' IN THE THIRD CENTURY AND AFTER 437
12. SOME CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD? 463
APPENDICES 469
BIBLIOGRAPHY 481
INDEXES 499
