Roman Hairpin.
The excavations at the Roman amphitheatre at Caerleon, near Newport, in Monmouthshire, have yielded some interesting discoveries. The bath building just outside the amphitheatre was pulled down in Roman times, and in one of the roadways subsequently built across its ruins there has been I found a brass Vespasian coin. Vespasian was commander of the Roman orces in southern England in the first century and of the second legion quartered at Caerleon. An ear pick, a lainty silver honey spoon, and a voman’s brenze hairpin, the end of vhich is delicately decorated in the orm of a hand with the first finger nd thumb holding an apple, have ’ >een recovered, as well as two mason’s 1 ools known as banker's chisels, very i nuch like those in use to-day. (
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20266, 28 March 1934, Page 14
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