Category: Finds

Horslip (Windmill Hill) Long Barrow, Avebury

Filed under Barrow, Britain, Early Neolithic, Europe, Flint Scatters, Long Barrow, Neolithic

Sitting on the south‑east shoulder of Windmill Hill (grid ref. SU 086 070), 140 ft (43 m) above the Kennet valley, the Horslip long barrow commands the same chalk ridge that carries the famous Early‑Neolithic causewayed enclosure 400 m upslope.

Wellhill, Dunning Early Neolithic Farm – Perthshire

Filed under Agriculture, Early Neolithic, Field Systems, Mesolithic, Neolithic, New Sites, Norman, Pottery, Scotland

The village of Dunning in Perthshire, Scotland, has been revealed through excavation as having traces of human activity dating back 10,000 years. This included evidence of what could be the earliest farming activity recorded in Scotland so far, and also remains of hunter-gathering activity dating back to the Mesolithic period.

Ard, Dunning.Early Neolithic Farm, Earliest.Rare, Farm, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Perthshire, Pits, ploughing, Ploughmarks, scotland, Wellhill
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Kirkhaugh Cairns – Cumbria

Filed under Barrow, Brigantia, Brigantia England, Britain, Bronze Age, Cairn, Europe, Finds, Funerary Urns, Hair Braid - Ring, Megalithic, Mining, New Sites, Rock Art

This mound is 22ft. in diam. and about 3ft high. It has been built upon a natural knoll which makes the barrow look larger than it is. Excavation showed that the mound has an earthy core with a rubble capping.

Amesbury Archer, barrow, Basket, britain, Bronze Age, cairn, Cumbria, Earliest Gold, Early Bronze Age, Gold, Hair Braid, Kirkhaugh, Metalworker
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Aldborough Roman Town

Filed under Brigantia England, Burial Mound, Early Christian, Iron Age, Mosaic, Mound, Roman, Town

Aldborough, or Isurium Brigantia as it was known in Roman times was the capital of Brigantia, at least from some point during Cartimandua’s acceptance as client Queen, governed by Rome. As such, it is a key site in our search for Brigantia

Age, Aldborough, iron, Isurium Brigantium, mosaic, North Yorkshire, Roman, syncretism, Town
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Curse tablet addressed to the god Bregneus – Bath

Filed under Breogans, Brigantia England, Curse Tablet, Finds, Inscription, Latin, Latin translation, Roman, Translation

‘To the god Bregneus I give the axe which I have lost from my house, (the house) of Hegemon. […] has stolen, he is not to be permitted sleep or health (until) he has brought it to your temple as we ?arrange. The hammer which I previously lost, it also […] ?I give.’

Bath, Bregneus, Brigantia, Curse tablet, god, Roman
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Altar dedicated to Bregans and the Divinity of the Emperor

Filed under Altar, Archaeology, Augustus Caesar, Brigantia England, Finds, Inscription, Latin, Latin translation, Roman, Translation

Altar dedicated to Bregans and the Divinity of the Emperor

altar, Bregans, breogan, Brigantes, Brigantia, dedicated, Divinity, Emperor, Roman, skack
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Potentially False Altar to Brigantia – Vindolanda

Filed under Altar, Brigantia England, Finds, Latin, Latin translation, Roman, Suspect, Translation

‘The goddess Brigantia.’

altar, Brigantia, goddess, Potentially False, Roman, vindolanda
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Altar dedicated to Victoria Brigantia – Castleford

Filed under Altar, Brigantia England, Finds, Inscription, Roman

To the goddess Victoria Brigantia Aurelius Senopianus dedicated this altar.

Altar dedicated to Nympha Brigantia – Castlesteads?

Filed under Altar, Brigantia England, Finds, Inscription, Iron Age, Roman

“This offering to the goddess-nymph Brigantia, which he had vowed for the welfare and safety of our Lord the Invincible Emperor Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus and of his whole Divine House, Marcus Cocceius Nigrinus, procurator of our Emperor and most devoted to his divinity and majesty, gladly, willingly, and deservedly fulfilled.”