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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 ]
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.
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]
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Playground (1/3) is located at the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, NY. Playground (2/3) and the artist's proof belong to private collections. In addition to large, welded steel sculptures and an artist's proof, Smith also made smaller versions of his sculptures out of cast bronze, welded bronze, or steel. [ 4 ]
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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]