{"id":563,"date":"2017-08-29T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/silchester\/?p=563"},"modified":"2018-06-07T14:37:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T13:37:43","slug":"nero-stamped-at-little-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/silchester\/2017\/08\/29\/nero-stamped-at-little-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Nero stamped at Little London!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three weeks into the archaeological excavations of Englefield Estate land at Little London and the Silchester team from the Department of Archaeology\u00a0has made significant progress and made some exciting finds.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A series of Roman kiln structures have started to be uncovered. Some live up to the Little London Tile kiln name of the site and are huge brick and tile\u00a0\u00a0production facilities, with an associated quarried out clay pit, full of rejected overfired or broken pieces.<\/p>\n<p>There are also two small round pottery kilns, with associated dumps of discarded high quality pottery flagons. The kilns are remarkably well-preserved, with their stokeholes, fuel and possible flue intact. One has a central supporting plinth topped with a line of \u2018tegulae\u2019 roof tiles. Either side are larger tiles, used to support the vessels, which have broken under the weight of the collapsed superstructure. Two curved tiles \u2018voussoirs\u2019 have also been found \u2013 perfect for use in the curved arch of a kiln flue. One edge of the kiln area is defined by a 1.8m deep v-shaped ditch, its profile and the scale\/early start to such a large-scale operation all hint at the Roman military being involved.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-563 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/silchester\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/20170826_101939-Copy-300x225-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/silchester\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/nero-tile-Copy-300x217-300x217.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h2>The newly found Nero stamped tile<\/h2>\n<p>Of particular significance is the extremely rare find of a mis-stamped tile bearing the name \u00a0Nero. The piece confirms that the site was used in the production of building material endorsed by the Emperor Nero for use in construction at Silchester. There are only 14 such tiles known in the UK including this one and one found in the 1920s at this site by the Rev, Carslake, plus the examples from the Roman town at Silchester. This example has revealed a new variation of lettering of Nero\u2019s title. From the fragment shown below, it can be seen that the E and R from the contraction of \u2018Germanicus\u2019 are joined together and are followed by a small mark as a spacer before the beginning of \u2018Nero\u2019. There is no record of Nero having visited England but clearly felt moved to sponsor Silchester during his short reign from 54-68 AD. With two weeks still left to go, the team are confident this site has plenty more to reveal about the industry and Nero\u2019s part in its establishment, we\u2019ll give another update when the dig has finished and the finds have been further examined.<\/p>\n<h2>The open day<\/h2>\n<p>There has been a steady flow of visitors to the site, including many members of the local community. The site i is open daily Mon-Sat throughout the dig until 5<sup>th<\/sup>September but in addition, well over 500 people visited the site on the recent open day, where they were taken on site tours and were able to handle many of\u00a0the artefacts found so far. The team are grateful for everyone\u2019s interest in the work and in particular to Dr Peter Warry, the Englefield Estate and to the Kolosowski family as tenants for access and their encouragement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three weeks into the archaeological excavations of Englefield Estate land at Little London and the Silchester team from the Department of Archaeology\u00a0has made significant progress and made some exciting finds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nero stamped at Little London! 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