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Contents

Arbeia Magazine
   
Prices
Issues 1-30 £0.90 to members
  £1.10 to non-members
Issues 30+ £1.00 to members
  £1.20 to non-members
Postage and packing  
£0.50 per copy
(for overseas posting, please contact the Secretary)
   
Cheques should be made payable to ‘The Arbeia Society’
   
Please order from: The Secretary, The Arbeia Society, Arbeia Roman Fort, Baring Street, South Shields, NE33 2BB
   
Contents  
   
Issue 45 2012
A Croom A Survey of Finger Rings
R Oram Here Be Dragons
TWA Discoveries at Shotton, Northumberland
   
Issue 44 2011
J Frazer Ballast railways and Ropewalks at Arbeia
G Stobbs Excavations at Arbeia in 2010 and 2011
R Oram Dear Ma...When a Roman Writes a Letter
A Croom Wine and Amphora
B Griffiths The Arbeia Society at 20
   
Issue 43 2011
A Croom Knocking and Creeing
R Oram Acis and Galatea
J Frazer Tynemouth Headland -its Place in Our History
D Richardson, J Strickland, J Scott Burials in Durham Marketplace
   
Issue 42 2010
A Croom Old Objects
F Garrett Killingworth Waggonway, Tyne and Wear
R Oram Atalanta
J Frazer The Battle of Boldon, the March to York and the Battle of Marston Moor
J Pugh Jesmond Mill, Jesmond Dene
   
Issue 41 (first issue in colour ) 2010
A Croom A visit to the baths
R Oram A Silent Saxon Story
J Frazer Monastic Granges and the Fox Covert Excavations 2005
J Frazer Tyneside in the English Civil War
   
Issue 40 2009
R Oram The Food Chain
C Romar The Painful Plough: A look at Ridge and Furrow
A Croom The Shape of Pots to Come
G Stobbs Excavations at Arbeia 2009
   
Issue 39 2009
D Richardson Material Culture Reflecting Gender in the Early Monasteries of Northern England
N Hodgson and P Bidwell The Pilgrimage and Limes Congress
R Oram I Hunt...So I Gather
A Croom Name and Number: the Centurial Stones of Hadrian's Wall
H Lynch Understanding Flint
R Ibrahim The Journey of the Cuneiform Tablet
   
Issue 38 2008
N. Hodgson The Reconstruction of Legionary Temples at Corbridge, on the Northern Frontier of Britain
R. Oram A Grimm Experience
TWM Staff Excavations at Delhi and Shotton, Northumberland
A. T. Croom, G. Scott and H. Lynch Finds Spot: the Museum Collection
   
Issue 37 2008
P. Bidwell Results of a Survey of the Saxon Crypt at Hexham Abbey
A. T. Croom I to X
R. Oram I Sing a Tale That is Still Worth Telling
A. T. Croom The People of Arbeia
R. A. Mor Waking in the Age of Iron
Editor Transformation
   
Issue 36
2007
A. T. Croom Finds Spot: the Finds of 1878
A. T. Croom A Prospector at South Shields
G. Ramoorer A Walk Around Segedunum
R. Oram A Misericord For a Monk
R. Oram Misericord
   
Issue 35
2007
R. Oram Changing Ways in Archaeology
A. T. Croom Disability in the Roman World
R. Oram A Remote Chance
A. T. Croom Finds Spot: Lead
M. E. Snape and T. Frain The Roman Bridge at Corbridge –Latest News of the Project
   
Issue 34
2006
W. B. Griffiths Eu-Roman Coinage
S. Panesaar ‘To the God Eusculapius, Publius Viboleius Donated This Altar as a Gift’
A. T. Croom Finds Spot: That’s Entertainment
R. Oram Tales of the Old Garderobe Cleaner
C. Romar The Many Walls of Hadrian
G. Stobbs The Rerend John Horsley
   
Issue 33
2006
A. T. Croom Appearances Can Be Deceptive
E. Thompson Archaeology and Learning in Tyne and Wear Museums
A. T. Croom Military Law
R. Oram The Year of a Slave
T. W. Museums Excavations at Fox Covert Dinnington, 2005
N. Hodgson The Roman Villa and Society in the North East
G. Stobbs Constantine
   
Issue 32
2005
T. Frain Recovering the Roman Bridge at Corbridge
R. Aroma Made to measure
A. T. Croom Handy household hints for the Roman housewife
R. Oram Dear Corinthus
L. Gidney The Romano-Gaulish woman’s garments from Les Martres de Veyre: a possible reconstruction
   
Issue 31
2005
G. Stobbs The Reverend John Hodgson
A. T. Croom Finds spot: using finds as dating
R. O. Satsuma Picture story, The long tea break
B. Griffiths Les Baños Publicos (the Roman Baths) as a Roman symbol
A. T. Croom Lights, camera…wristguards!
TWM staff Hadrian’s Wall: fitting the pieces together
   
Issue 30
2004
G. Stobbs Punch-ups on the Wall: a History of Trouble on the Frontier
R. Oram Olympic Spirit
A. Goldwater Flushed with success? Confessions of a Roman Latrine Hunter
A. T. Croom Finds Spot: Greek Graffiti
Domestica (aka A. T. Croom) Handy household hints for the Roman housewife
   
Issue 29
2004
A. T. Croom Finds Spot: Painted Plaster
N. Hodgson Fire! Destruction by the Enemy
R. Oram Groundbreaking Discoveries
R. Oram New Frescos for Old
Domestica (aka A. T. Croom) Roman Lifestyle
   
Issue 28
2004
T. Frain &J. McKelvey Hadrian’s Wall at Throckley
A. T. Croom Furnishing the Commanding Officer’s House
R. Oram The Tail end of the Pig
R. Oram Macc Da Tho’s Pig
G. Stobbs The 2003 Excavation Season at Arbeia
E. Elliott Arbeia’s Golden Year
R. McBride Arbeia Browser
   
Issue 27
2003
M. E. Snape People of the Castle Garth, Newcastle upon Tyne
  Training for Archaeology: the Regina Project
A. T. Croom Finds Spot: The Last 50 Years
R.Oram A Nice Age for Some
A. T. Croom The Barrack Interiors
R. Oram The Lawe Top’s Story
  The Arbeia Society (Drumming up Recruits)
   
Issue 26
2003
N. Hodgson The Reconstructed Commanding Officer’s House
A. T. Croom Finds Spot: the Museum
G. Stobbs The Limes
R. Oram Hawker’s Tale
R. McBride Arbeia.Browser
R. McBride Picking up the Pieces
P. Carrick The Story of Valerius Valentinius continued
   
Issue 25
2002
A. Wightman Roman Nomenclature
M. E. Snape The Roman Fort of Newcastle upon Tyne: Results of a Recent Post-excavation Programme
A. T. Croom Finds Spot: Amphorae
R. Oram A Little Light Linguistics
J. McKelvey An Excavation at Swan Hunter’s Shipyard, Wallsend
W. B. Griffiths 10 Years On – the First Decade of the Arbeia Society
A. T. Croom Food & Drink: 101 Roman Cocktails
S. Speak Iron Age Settlements at Newcastle Great Park
   
Issue 24
2002
J. McKelvey Hadrian’s Wall at Shields Road, Byker
A. T. Croom Food & Drink
A. Wightman Astronomical Ideas in the Roman Period
R. Oram Groundbreaking Discoveries
N. Hodgson Prehistoric Remains beneath Arbeia Roman Fort, South Shields
W. B. Griffiths (with M. Forrester) A ‘Grate’ Project
A. T. Croom Finds Spot: Prehistoric Finds
   
Issue 23
2001
S the D Contracting Archaeology
N. Hodgson Cavalry Barracks at South Shields and Wallsend
R. Oram The Gladiators
R. Oram Never too Late
P. T. Bidwell A Roman shipwreck in the Tyne (based on an article)
A. T. Croom Finds Spot: Late Roman Fittings
P. Carrick The Journal of Valerius Valentinius
   
Issue 22
2000
W. B. Griffiths Emperors in Britain
G. Stobbs John Collingwood Bruce
A. T. Croom Finds Spot: Gladiators
R. Oram Picture Story
A. T. Croom Food & Drink: Pliny the Elder
A. Wightman The Roman Calendar
W. B. Griffiths Book Review: Roman Woman – Everyday Life in Hadrian’s Britain
   
Issue 21
2000
M. E. Snape The Victorians at Hardknott Roman Fort
G. Stobbs Mr John Clayton of Chesters
R. Oram Some Notes on Bathing
R. Oram Along the Waggonway
A. T. Croom Finds Spot: Segedunum
W. B. Griffiths Segedunum 2000
A. T. Croom Food and Drink: Luxuries
   
Issue 20
1999
P. T. Bidwell The 1875 Excavations at South Shields
N. Hodgson The last 50 years & the next 50 years of research at South Shields
R. Oram A day in Rome
A. T. Croom Food & Drink: the meals of the day
E. L. Thornborrow Arbeia & the South Shields Archaeological & Historical Society
G. Stobbs All Fired Up! Testing the reconstructed baths at Wallsend
   
Issue 19
1999
R. Oram Hadrian’s Wall at Wallsend 1998
W. B. Griffiths The units of the Roman Army (part 2)
R. Oram The North-East coalfield in the 18th & 19th centuries
G. Stobbs Along Hadrian’s Wall; the pilgrim’s progress
R. Oram Hadrian has an Idea
A. T. Croom Finds Spot: Animals in Roman art
A. Lloyd-Hughes Heads you lose
A. T. Croom Food & Drink: Cato
   
Issue 18
1998
R. Oram The Wallsend Colliery B Pit
A. T. Croom Food & Drink: Apicius
G. Rogan Discoveries in a Barrack at Segedunum
A. Lloyd-Hughes Come On Team!
R. Oram Roman Remedies
G. Stobbs Excavations at Arbeia
A. T. Croom Finds Spot: Harness Fittings
W. B. Griffiths Obituary
C. Waddington Poem
   
Issue 17
1998
P. T. Bidwell What’s in a Name?
M. E. Snape The Roman Baths at Segedunum
A. Lloyd-Hughes Mars has an Identity Crisis
G. Brogan Religion in the Roman Army
R. Oram Happy Birthday, Quinta
G. Stobbs The 1997 Excavations at Arbeia
Various Comments from Quinta
A. T. Croom Finds Spot: The Soldiers of CVG
W. B. Griffiths Soldiers of Segedunum
A. T. Croom Food & Drink: Chicken
M. E. Snape Taking the Plunge
E. Montgomery Building Brigantium
   
Issue 16
1997
S. Speak &P. Frodsham Hillforts in the Northumberland National Park – a strategic study
W. B. Griffiths Frontier spotting – or what I did in my holidays
J. McKelvey Segedunum fort excavations: Camp Road site
A. Lloyd-Hughes Trust in the gods & keep your spear sharp
A. T. Croom Finds Spot: finds from the barrack
R. Oram You are Tomb-Digger
G. Stobbs What’s the story, Arbeia glory?
A. T. Croom Food & Drink: Anthimus
C. Hudson A standard recipe
   
Issue 15
1997
R. Oram (Rodent Scolar) A Little Roman Research
A. Lloyd Jones We Who Are about to Die
W. B. Griffiths The Segedunum Project
Billy Bruce Simpson’s Hotel 1955
A. T. Croom Finds Spot: Coins
R. Oram In the Reign of Severus
W. Flood Ancient Technology
M. E. Snape 20th Anniversary of the Excavations at Arbeia
V. Douglas Alan Bell; A Life
R. Oram What Spellcheckers Really Mean
   
Issue 14
1996
A. Lloyd-Hughes The Tauroctonous God: who on earth?
W. Flood & G. Brownsword Book Review: Rambling on Roman Roads
S. Foss The Calf Path
G. Stobbs Coastal Defences
G. Brownsword TimeQuest: the Barbour Archaeology Resource Centre
R. Oram A trip to Tir Nan Og
A. T. Croom Food & Drink: The Banquet
M. E. Snape Arbeia Interview: Jane Miller
J. McKelvey Excavations at Arbeia 1995-6
A. T. Croom Finds Spot: The Museum
W. B. Griffiths Some nails from Roman Scotland
   
Issue 13
1996
S. Speak Aerial photography
M. E. Snape Arbeia Interview: Clive Hart
S. Brown Book Review: Archaeology – an Introduction
R. Oram ‘Salus Republicae’
S. Speak From our Roman Correspondent
A. Lloyd-Hughes What’s up, Doc?
A. T. Croom Finds Spot: stamps & graffiti
A. T. Croom Food & Drink: cheese & pickles
M. E. Snape Surveying at Corbridge: Introduction
G. Foley Surveying at Corbridge: Survey of the southern abutment of the Roman bridge at Corbridge
G. Stobbs Surveying at Corbridge: Ground survey at Corbridge
   
Issue 12
1995
A. T. Croom Finds Spot: The Museum Grave Display
A. T. Croom Food & Drink: Bread
A. Lloyd-Hughes Gilding the Lily
W. B. Griffiths What is an Archaeologist?
J. McKelvey Windmills & Watermills
A. Dunn Local Mining
M. E. Snape Arbeia Interview: A. Bell & V. Douglass
R. Oram The Cauld Lad
P. T. Bidwell Roman Barracks
R. Oram A Pig’s Ear View
   
Issue 11
1995
Aur. Germanus (aka P. Clark)” “What I did on my Holidays
J. Reay Robert Blair, MA, FSA
Ael, Fortunatus Food & Drink: Hare & Rabbit
A. T. Croom Finds Spot: Tooth Amulets
J. Jackson The Coastal Geology & Palaeontology of Tyneside
R. Oram A Pig’s Ear View
W. B. Griffiths Reconstructing Hadrian’s Wall
N. Hodgson A Day in the Life of the Commanding Officer’s House at South Shields Roman Fort
S. Speak ‘aaaaand… ACTION!’ The Making of the Time Team II Programme at Hylton Castle
M. E. Snape Arbeia Interview: A. T. Croom
  Obituary: Raymond Hutchinson
   
Issue 10
1994
M. E. Snape The Roman Cemeteries at Arbeia
P. Younger What Wallsend & South Shields Forts Stand on
M. Hoyle Arbeia in the News
M. E. Snape Arbeia Interview: Mrs. Evelyn Waugh Almond
R. Oram What Ho! Toucan’s Tales
A. Fortunatus Food & Drink: Fish
C. Lloyd Inspired by the Muse
W. B. Griffiths The Fabric of History: The Rose Line Building
A. T. Croom Finds Spot: Intaglios
P. Stokes Butchery Practices at Roman Arbeia
C. R. Hart A Bronze Age Find
   
Issue 9
1994
N. Hodgson A decade of Excavation at South Shields 1984-1994
P. Bidwell The 1875 Excavations at South Shields
J. W. Thornborrow South Shields Archaeological and Historical Society
J. Reay The Reverend Robert Eli Hooppell MA LLD FRAS
W. B. Griffiths TWM to the Rescue
R. Oram How Pieces of the Past Survive
M. E. Snape Arbeia Interview: C Lloyd
S. Speak The Mounthooly Project
A. T. Croom Finds Spot: Identification
   
Issue 8
1994
N. Hodgson Earthwatch 1993 & the Prehistoric Settlement they Helped to Uncover
V. Douglass The Fort in Flower
A. T. Croom Finds Spot: Jet & Amber
M. E. Snape Arbeia Interview: K. McQueen & F. Beavers
R. Oram How to Identify Archaeologists
J. Mahavier &G. Foley Poems
B. Whitaker Summer 1915
C. Lloyd The Young Archaeologists’ Club
   
Issue 7
1993
N. Hodgson South Shields & the End of Hadrian’s Wall
W. B. Griffiths A Guide to the Types of Unit in the Roman Army
M. E. Snape Arbeia Interview: Paul Bidwell
R. Oram Roman Remnants: Fashion
A. T. Croom Roman Calendars
S. Speak The Roman Garden at South Shields
A. T. Croom &M. E. Snape Finds Spot: 2 Recently Discovered Enamelled Objects
   
Issue 6
1992
S. Speak Digging Without Digging
W. B. Griffiths Excavations at Chesters Roman Bridge 1990-1
G. Foley Pictures of the Past
W. B. Griffiths The Segedunum Hadrian’s Wall Project
P. T. Bidwell A Different Design for the Late Fort at South Shields
C. Lloyd Schools invade Arbeia!
R. Oram A Romance
A. T. Croom Finds Spot: Sculpture on Altars
C. R. Hart A Miniature Altar
M. E. Snape Arbeia Interview: Steve Speak
C. Lloyd Children at the Fort
   
Issue 5
1992
N. Hodgson The 1991 Summer Excavation Campaign at Arbeia
W. B. Griffiths Roman Board Games
R. Oram What the Butler Saw
C. R. Hart The Barbarians
S. Speak The Monastery of Abbot Utta, Gateshead
M. E. Snape Roman Brooches
A. T. Croom Finds Spot: Military Equipment
M. E. Snape Archaeological Training at the Fort
   
Issue 4
1991
N. Hodgson Latest Excavations at South Shields: the Commanding Officer’s Bath-suite
W. B. Griffiths Metal Detectors – Useful Tools or Dangerous Weapons?
M. E. Snape Peoples of the Past
A. T. Croom Finds Spot: Regina Tombstone
R. Oram Professor Fishhead Informs: the Auxiliary Soldier
J. R. Howie The Skill of a Tour Guide
N. Holbrook Excavations outside the South Gate of Segedunum Roman Fort, Wallsend, 1991
N. Holbrook Excavations at Chesters Roman Site, Hadrian’s Wall, 1991: A Preliminary Note
S. Speak Bede’s Monastery at Jarrow
K. Wolfshead ET at the Roman Fort
A. T. Croom Re-enacting the Past
   
Issue 3
1991
N. Hodgson The Newly-Discovered Headquarters Building
A. T. Croom Finds Spot: Worked Bone & Antler
W. B. Griffiths The Tyne Shield Boss
R. Oram The Sandfort Building
M. E. Snape The Defensive Ditches at South Shields
N. Hodgson New Light on the Early Garrison of the Supply Base
L. Bailey Foreign Feet on South Shields Soil AD 1990
R. Oram Other Sites Undertaken from the South Shields Base 3
   
Issue 2
1990
N. Hodgson Life in the Barracks
P. T. Bidwell The Setting of South Shields
N. Holbrook An Exotic Roman House at Arbeia
R. Oram Professor Fishhead Informs: Archaeological Sites
A. T. Croom Finds Spot: The Decorated Sword
S. Speak A Gold Ring from the Fort
R. Oram Other Sites Undertaken from the South Shields Base 2
S. Speak Excavations at Crompton Eternacell
   
Issue 1
1990
S. Speak The Changes Made to South Shields Fort in Roman Times
A. T. Croom The Discovery and Excavation of the Fort
R. Oram The Progress of an Excavation
N. Hodgson A Recent & Unusual Feature Excavated
R. Oram Other Sites Undertaken from the South Shields Base
A. T. Croom Finds Spot: Samples