Life, death and rubbish disposal in Roman Norton, North Yorkshire. Excavations at Brooklyn House 2015-16

Abstract

drinking customs. Based on its local context the authors propose that the hoard was deposited between c.AD 45–60/61, perhaps by a member of the local native elite. Various theories for its deposition have been proposed previously, some more plausible than others, with the authors leaning towards a votive explanation, which does seem likely given the proximity of the temple. Here they suggest that this act may have been conceived as a deliberate repudiation of the newly emerged cultural practices of the immediate postConquest period in the aftermath of the Boudiccan rebellion, a convincing theory given the deliberately fragmented condition in which it was deposited. It is a credit to the original finder of the hoard that we know so much about its discovery and it is good to finally see this publication as there has been little easily accessible information available previously. Although slim in size and limited in its scope the study nonetheless makes a worthwhile contribution to the study of the fascinatingly complex cultural transitions of the mid-first century AD in south-east Britain and the developing material culture of this period.