Posted on 07/29/2011 10:24:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists working on the site of Doncaster's new civic and cultural quarter have unearthed a rare Roman glass jug dating back to around AD150.
The area is believed to have been the site of a Roman cemetery where cremations took place.
And on Saturday visitors will be able to tour the excavation site in the company of archeologists to learn about the jug and other finds, as well as about the town's important Roman history...
The unearthed vessel, which is 15cm tall and was found close to the site of the new performance venue, would have been filled with rich goods like oils and placed next to a high status burial with the neck of the jug deliberately broken off to be placed in the grave.
A similar vessel was found in the 1960s when the Arndale Centre -- later the Frenchgate Shopping Centre -- was being built. Now restored, the piece is on display in Doncaster Museum.
Doncaster's Roman history dates back nearly 2,000 years and the town was then known as Danum. A Roman fort was established close to the Market Place near the minster in around AD71.
(Excerpt) Read more at fr.sott.net ...
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...fascinating.....
SunkenCiv, what ever happened to that Bay of Jars dispute with the Brazilian government? Did anyone ever determine if there really is a sunken Roman merchant ship in S. America? For that matter, what about that allegedly Roman figurine that was unearthed in Mexico City? I’ve never heard much about either since they were in the news years ago.
This is the best scientific argument ever for NOT recycling.
LOL
I find this jar quite beautiful. How great that it is intact, too.
I would LOVE to dig for old bottles in Rome.
Dug up a lot of medicines, inks and brown glass Clorox bottles here in my city
In 1976, diver Jose Roberto Texeira salvaged two intact amphorae from the bottom of Guanabara Bay, 15 kilometers from Rio de Janeiro. Six years later, archeologist Robert Marx found thousands of pottery fragments in the same locality, including 200 necks from amphorae.
Amphorae are tall storage vessels that were used widely throughout ancient Europe. These particular amphorae are of Roman manufacture, circa the second century B.C. Much controversy erupted around the finds because Spain and Portugal both claim to have discovered Brazil around 1500 A.D. Roman artifacts were distinctly unwelcome. More objectively, the thought of an ancient Roman crossing of the Atlantic is not so farfetched. Roman wrecks have been discovered in the Azores; and the shortest way across the Atlantic is from Africa to Brazil -- only 18 days using modern sailing vessels. [Science Frontiers, No. 28: Jul-Aug 1983; Photo from Professor Legner Faculty Homepages]
Just how far did the Romans go? Is there a Roman ship off the Azores, as some say? Are there thousands of Phoenician and Roman amphora fragments on Salt Island in the Cape Verdes, as reported by the underwater salvor Robert Marx? Is the "Rio Wreck," at the bottom of Guanabara Bay near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a Roman ship that in ancient times was blown off course?
Twice a year London's Sunday Times phones me to ask if I know anything more about the Rio Wreck. The highly publicized amphoras Robert Marx found in the ship are in fact similar in shape to jars produced in kilns at Kouass, on the west coast of Morocco. The Rio jars look to be late versions of those jars, perhaps datable to the third century A.D. I have a large piece of one of the Rio jars, but no labs I have consulted have any clay similar in composition. So the edges of the earth for Rome, beyond India and Scotland and eastern Europe, remain shrouded in mystery.
Fascinating stuff. I can’t imagine why this isn’t thoroughly investigated; it has the possibility to be sensational if true - it would re-write history.
Here’s that figurine I was talking about:
http://www.econ.ohio-state.edu/jhm/arch/calix.htm
Whoops, probably should have posted the links to the site with that graphic [blush]:
The links were screwed up in the original homepage anyway, so here they are corrected (backslash was in the link, and incorrect):
http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/ethnic/image.htm
http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/archeol/archeol.htm
http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/bronze/fell2.htm
http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/ethnic/ethnic.htm
Nice links to some Roman coin finds there, as well! Thanks.
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