Pearce, J., Scott, W. and Wood, E. (2022). A spear for Silvanus, a horse for Mars, a rural shrine? New evidence of Roman votives from the Cambridgeshire claylands. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 111. Vol 111, Cambridge: Cambridge Antiquarian Society. pp. 103-116.
Title The title of the publication or report |
A spear for Silvanus, a horse for Mars, a rural shrine? New evidence of Roman votives from the Cambridgeshire claylands | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Issue The name of the volume or issue |
Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 111 | |||
Series The series the publication or report is included in |
Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society | |||
Volume Volume number and part |
111 | |||
Page Start/End The start and end page numbers. |
103 - 116 | |||
Downloads Any files associated with the publication or report that can be downloaded from the ADS |
|
|||
Licence Type ADS, CC-BY 4.0 or CC-BY 4.0 NC. |
ADS Terms of Use and Access
|
|||
Publication Type The type of publication - report, monograph, journal article or chapter from a book |
Journal | |||
Abstract The abstract describing the content of the publication or report |
Two copper-alloy objects from Cambridgeshire, a spear head and a fitting, carrying inscriptions dedicated respectively to Silvanus and (probably) to Mars, were reported to the Portable Antiquities Scheme in 2017 and 2018. Found. c. ten km west of Cambridge, both represent the use of objects hitherto unattested as media for Roman religious writing. This paper discusses the texts and media of the inscriptions, identifying them as dedications which extend our understanding of votive practice in rural Britannia. Found with abundant associated metal-detected objects of Roman date, including further likely votives, their discovery enables the identification of a previously undocumented Roman religious site in the Cambridgeshire claylands, likely connected to the many farmsteads identified by intensive archaeological fieldwork in its environs. | |||
Year of Publication The year the book, article or report was published |
2022 | |||
Locations Any locations covered by the publication or report. This is not the place the book or report was published. |
|
|||
Source Where the record has come from or which dataset it was orginally included in. |
ADS Archive
(ADS Archive)
|
|||
Relations Other resources which are relevant to this publication or report |
|
|||
Created Date The date the record of the pubication was first entered |
27 Oct 2022 |