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The Water Newton Treasure is a hoard of fourth-century Roman silver, discovered near the location of the Roman town of Durobrivae at Water Newton in the English county of Cambridgeshire in 1975. [1] The hoard consisted of 27 silver items and one small gold plaque. [ 2 ]
The list of Roman hoards in Britain comprises significant archaeological hoards of coins, jewellery, precious and scrap metal objects and other valuable items discovered in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) that are associated with period of Romano-British culture when Southern Britain was under the control of the Roman Empire, from AD 43 until about 410, as well as the subsequent ...
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The origin of Durobrivae is said to have been as a vicus attached to a "pre-Flavian" fort, established about half a kilometre to the east of modern Water Newton, between the Claudian invasion of 43 AD, and the beginning of the reign of Vespasian in 69 AD. [2] Its first historical mention is in the Antonine Itinerary of the late 2nd century. [3]
Water Newton is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. [1] Water Newton lies approximately 5 miles (8 km) west of Peterborough . Water Newton is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic county of England.
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The Water Newton Treasure from Cambridgeshire is smaller, but is the earliest hoard to have a clearly Christian character, apparently belonging to a church or chapel; [105] the assorted collection probably includes items made in Britain. [106]
The Water Newton early Christian silver. British Museum Publications, London, 1977. ISBN 9780714113647; Painter, Kenneth & Whitehouse, David (1990). "The History of the Portland Vase". Journal of Glass Studies. 32. Corning Museum of Glass: 24–84. JSTOR 24188030. The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii: Volume IV: The Silver Treasure.