Comment: iRomans website

The above Roman lamp was found at Ravenglass some years ago and is on the iRomans website.  Further information about the lamp from iRomans:

Grey painted ware oil lamp with a stamp "CAPITO.F" on the base. This shows that it was made by either a man or a factory called Capitus. Oil lamps were used from the earliest times and were mass produced in the Roman empire. Filled with olive oil, a wick would have been placed in to the nozzle and lit. They were commonly used throughout the empire, in domestic as well as military contexts.

As well as having information about several more Ravenglass artefacts, the iRomans website from the Tullie House Museum allows you to explore other Roman sites in Cumbria

Comment: Tullie House Museum, Carlisle

Kurt went to visit the Tullie House Museum in Carlisle recently to check out the Crosby Garrett Helmet currently being displayed there. Catch it while you can, as it continues its travels 26th January!

There was also a newly refitted Roman Frontier Gallery to explore, and there were a plethora of interesting Roman finds from Carlisle on show.  Here's a taster:
 

This is an elegant way of showing how the hair pins of bone and jet would be worn by a Roman woman, and also shows the glass beads she may have worn

Here's a selection of Roman glass beads, including three examples of melon beads

Roman bronze brooches which would have held up a Roman woman's dress (stola), as well as being decorative, and having a chain joining them (for further bling effect!)

 

An antler/bone comb.  The Romans didn't have hair brushes, just using combs instead.

 It's Venus Anadyomene again!

A steelyard, along with its lead weight, used for weighing out food and other commodities

A side-on view of the Roman ceramic roof tile system.  The flat tile, with edges turned up is called a tegula, and the curved tile is called an imbrex.