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Creating a Roman Confusion in the North-East Creating a Roman confusion in the North-east n a previous article in Leopard (April history as a series of violent tragedies, such 2015), I discussed some of the Roman Neil Curtis as Culloden and Mons Graupius, that objects found in Aberdeenshire and contributed little to contemporary Scotland. Ihow these can reveal something of the After the fusion of Marischal College relationships between the Romans and the and King’s College, in 1860, to form the native people of the North-east. Since the modern University of Aberdeen, a new 18th century, this has been a topic of great Archaeological Museum opened in Old fascination to local historians, and some Aberdeen with a catalogue published in Marsichal College a rusty iron loop that had of the stories they have written also reveal 1887. Alongside a section on “North-East been found at Raedykes a few years earlier, much about more recent ideas of identity. Scotland” which listed objects of many describing it as being “useful for no other In 1793, General William Roy’s Military periods relating to the region’s history, purpose than to contain the axle of one of [the Antiquities of the Romans in Britain was there was a special section on “Romano- Caledonian] war chariots” (Stuart 1823, 300). published, including beautiful and accurate British Antiquities”, showing the continuing On the other hand, an 1833 list of Curiosities plans of the Roman sites that could be seen significance of the Classical past. This in the Scottish landscape. As many of these Preserved in the Museum notes it, however, mentioned a second Roman sword, found sites have now been destroyed, his plans as having belonged to the other side in the at Netherley. This is an intriguing findspot continue to be useful for archaeologists. battle: “An Iron Hoop supposed to belonging as Balnagubs is next to the Red Moss of Other antiquarians, such as John Stuart, [sic] to the axle of Agricola’s Chariot. Found Netherley, implying that the two swords professor of Greek at Marischal College, near the place where Agricola fought a desperate were closely associated. The faint traces of wrote in 1818 that “the historical records of battle near Dunnottar (very much rusted no the words ‘Agricola’ and ‘Rome’ appear on the Romans, are our best guide, and almost Wonder)”. Today, we are much less confident this sword, probably written before it was only authority” to interpreting remains from - it might be from an 18th-century cart! antiquity. To classically-educated Scottish Another acquisition by the museum donated to the museum. However, by the antiquarians of the early 19th century, the in the early 19th century was “A Roman late 19th century, these swords were known history of Roman Scotland was dominated Gladius, and sheath. Found in 1809 under not to be Roman, instead resembling swords by the Agricola, written by Tacitus, which deep moss on the estate of Balnagubs, in the typical of early first millennium BC Europe. culminates in the battle of Mons Graupius line between the Roman camps of Rae-dykes Intriguingly, there is also a record of two and the defeat of the Caledonians under and Drumoak. Presented in June 1818 Bronze Age swords in the “North-East” their leader, Calgacus. Attempts to link by George Kerr Esqr, Surgeon, Aberdeen”. section of the catalogue. the literary account with archaeological Explaining why it was Roman, John Stuart In 1846-7, Danish antiquary Jens Worsaae evidence continue, despite General Roy’s said that “we must be permitted to believe that made a journey through England, Scotland warning that “unless a number of old Roman the arms of our ancestors were, in the age of and Ireland, during which he collected a and Caledonian arms should, by mere accident, Agricola, nearly the same as in modern times, number of items for the Royal Museum of be dug up in the neighbourhood of those viz the small shield and great iron sword or Northern Antiquities in Copenhagen, now places, or that the vestiges of a camp should be claymore; and that those of the same metal and the National Museum of Denmark. In his discovered fronting one or other of them, we can form as the one now described, were infallibly memoirs, he recorded that the Society of never hope to ascertain the particular spot.” Roman”. Written a year after the 1822 visit Antiquaries of Scotland gave him a collection While Bennachie is nowadays probably of George IV to Scotland, Stuart’s equation of objects, including a bronze sword. He the most popular suggested location of Mons of contemporary Highlanders and ancient knew that such swords were Bronze Age, Graupius, the Roman camp at Raedykes Caledonians emphasised the primitive and and saw it as being “interesting to have in our (not far from Stonehaven) was favoured by historically marginal character of both. museum a small collection of Scandinavian some antiquarians, including John Stuart. This was an attitude most clearly expressed antiquities found abroad” which would let In 1812, he presented to the museum in by Sir Walter Scott, who saw Scottish visitors “hold in our hands the swords with Red Moss of Netherley 30 LEOPARD MAGAZINE September 2015 Creating a Roman confusion in the North-east which they made the Danish name respected and feared. The remains of antiquity thus binds us more firmly to our native Land”. As has recently been shown in the Danish television series 1864, in the years before and after the 1848-50 Danish-Prussian war, this was high- stakes politics and Worsaae played a high- profile role in using antiquities to bolster national identity. As an astute archaeologist, when he looked at the sword he had been given he felt that it was not genuine and that he had seen similar swords “forged in the North of the Country, and he presumed the sword in question had come from that quarter”. The Society therefore decided that “should they receive any donations of genuine swords William Knight’s catalogue (c1810) similar in appearance to that presented to the Museum at Copenhagen, one of them should be rarer trace elements, such as bismuth, in reserved and forwarded in its stead”, though some of the swords. There was no doubt, this never happened. however, that the earliest sword acquired It now appears that there are at least by Marischal College was genuine. Looking seven swords in this group (pictured, closely at the swords, there were other right). One, in the British Museum (Royal oddities, particularly marks that appeared to Armouries Collection), was published in an be left by a metal file and oddly-placed rivet important corpus of Bronze Age metalwork holes. X-rays also showed that the first sword with the comment that “it is possible that it had been hammered, removing air bubbles, came from the same mould in antiquity” as the whereas the other six swords had been left as earliest one collected in Aberdeen. There cast. The final clinching evidence that six of is another in the Aberdeen City collection, the swords had been made in the early 19th though it has no provenance, while another, century was that they all showed a line across in the collections of National Museums the handle at exactly the same point at which Scotland, has written on it: “This sword is the first sword was broken, while a previously probably a reproduction of a genuine one and un-noticed comment in the catalogue has been acquired as such. The original may recorded that “some very exact facsimiles were yet be discovered”. The University collection made and given away, but this is the original, includes a third sword that had been in attested JS”, presumably John Stuart. Chape the collection of Alexander Thomson of Instead of seeing these swords as forgeries Banchory House (now Beannachar, part intended to deceive, this story reveals the and the knowledge of the copies made in the of the Camphill Community). Thomson importance of the Romans to antiquarians early 19th century was ignored. recorded it as being a “model of a at the turn of the 19th century. The meanings of the swords have bronze sword found at Netherley (about Rather than identifying changed dramatically over 200 years. Only 1815), Dr Geo. Kerr”, while it was with the native Iron Age by combining a detailed study of their later described as a forgery and had a people and the Picts, they material aspects with an understanding of wooden handle added to it. preferred to see the Romans their textual context has it been possible to As well as archival research, the search as their intellectual ancestors untangle the story. While this has confirmed to untangle this intriguing group of and written texts as the source that one of the swords was made and swords also involved scientific analysis of academic authority. This may deposited in the later Bronze Age, it has of the metal by the Analytical Research explain the reference to four swords also revealed a large group of replica leaf- Department of National Museums in the 1887 catalogue; by then, shaped swords in the British Isles, with a of Scotland and the Department of the Roman swords existed only as clear motivation for their creation. These Conservation, Documentation and texts. In subsequent years, some replicas were made not as fakes to deceive, Science of the British Museum. This of the swords were remembered but as tangible ‘souvenirs’ of the Romans analysis concluded that “on the basis of as copies, but for others this was in Scotland, encapsulating the changing composition alone, it would be difficult forgotten and they came to be attitudes of antiquarians and archaeologists to establish that the swords were published as genuine prehistoric to the distant past.
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