4th October 2011, 08:34 AM
An interesting aspect is how the 'post-Romano-British' people viewed their 'Romano-British' past - many moons ago (and I'm sure that one day the mongraph will get published) I dug an Anglian cemetery where one of the graves was absolutely stuffed with random bits of RB metalwork re-used as jewelery items, 6 coins strung as part of a necklace, couple of cu-alloy studs, a mystery cu-alloy obj (always good when the finds specialists are flummoxed) etc. The dead woman clearly had a fixation with the stuff unlike her (funerary) neighbours...antiquarian, superstition, or maybe it was just a fashion thing and she'd got bored with the Anglian look, all those cruciform brooches and glass beads get sooo boring after you've seen the first few hundred....
[As an aside, can anyone come up with any good refs for pierced Roman coins, am sure I read an article about it not that long ago?]
[As an aside, can anyone come up with any good refs for pierced Roman coins, am sure I read an article about it not that long ago?]