Roman armour and metalworking at Carlisle, Cumbria, England.(Brief Article)
Antiquity, September, 2001 by BISHOP, MIKE; MCCARTHY, MIKE; RICHARDSON, THOM
Recent excavations at the Roman fort in Carlisle, Cumbria, have yielded a large number of pieces of articulated Roman armour and other items. This is the most important such find in Britain since the Corbridge hoard was excavated in 1964 (Allason-Jones & Bishop 1988).
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On the north side of the via principalis adjacent to the headquarters building (principia), the corner of a timber building was uncovered (FIGURE 2). On the floor was a quantity of articulated and disarticulated fragments of predominantly ferrous Roman armour, including as many as three crushed, but complete, ...
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