You can get a variety of Vindolanda Trust excavation final report ebooks from their online shop, most notably the granaries report which is only £15, compared to £100 for the dead-tree variant.
Mike Bishop
You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles
Quote:does anyone know in which one the leather finds are published?
That would be Driel-Murray, C. van, John Peter Wild et al.: Vindolanda. Research Reports, New Series. Vol. III The Early Wooden Forts. 1993. Unfortunately only a very small portion of what exists is actually in there, very disappointing if you have had the chance to visit the museum (and that doesn't even include whats in the archives).
On the up side, Elizabeth M. Greene is working on "The Roman Shoe Assemblage from the Roman Fort at Vindolanda (Monograph)" (no planned publication date yet), so we will see more eventually.
Is it really the case that these online reports do not contain any details on the leather small finds, can anyone confirm this?
I had the original prelim report since it was first published on a visit to Vindolanda and have basically starved since... that was 20 years ago, though there are one or two articles by various authors but they tend to serve more to wet the appetite.. not just interested in the shoes themselves but in provenance and find details etc....
Any help is appreciated....
Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
Quote:Is it really the case that these online reports do not contain any details on the leather small finds, can anyone confirm this?
You have to remember the sheer quantity of finds with which they are dealing. Most of these reports are the structural components with summaries of the other specialisms. One or two finds are singled out for attention (the 2007-2010 report has a detailed piece on the the griffin, an altar, and the gems, for example). I would expect specialist reports to be published separately as they have done in the past.
Mike Bishop
You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles
There is of course a slight correction I would make to the paper by Carrol van Driel-Murray on the Vindolanda Chamfron.
This is where she refers to the brow band having three holes in the form of a spectacle arrangement in the half circular rows along the brow which I of course followed with an image of an emperor when I made the replica Vindolanda Chamfron.
However since making also the Newstead one I came to the conclusion that these half circlular shapes had plain plates in them to represent shields with 17mm studs as their centre bosses and next to them are the reprsentation of spears.
For along with Carrol van Driel- Murray I also think that both the originals were made by the same craftsman who belonged to the VIIII Cohort of Batarvians.
Quote:I came to the conclusion that these half circlular shapes had plain plates in them to represent shields with 17mm studs as their centre bosses and next to them are the reprsentation of spears.
Is that a leap of faith or do you have evidence for that, Brian?
Mike Bishop
You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles
Here is a picture of the early Newstead when it was not known what fitted into the leaf shaped areas.
Then along came the Vindolanda with its 3 leaves intact having amor faces in them.
Then there is the knowledge from having made these things that no two areas of the 3mm studs are identical in shape that indicates that these areas were filled with their pictures or metal pieces before the 3mm studs went around them.
Therefore the line along the brow area is indeed spears and shields with of course the 17mm studs forming the umbos, the other size of studs being 6mm and these surround the general picture.
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