Fremington Hagg Hoard
{{Short description|Roman hoard from North Yorkshire, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=February 2023}}
{{Infobox artifact
| name =Fremington Hagg Hoard
| image =YORYM H141 18.jpg
| image2 =
| image_caption =One of the silvered harness mounts from the hoard
| material =Roman horse harness equipment and fittings
|period = Romano-British
| size =
| writing =
| created = late 1st century AD
| discovered_place =Fremington Hagg, near Reeth, North Yorkshire, England
| discovered_date =before 1833
| location =British Museum, London
Yorkshire Museum, York
| id =
}}
The Fremington Hagg Hoard is a hoard of Roman horse harness fittings found in Fremington Hagg, near Reeth, North Yorkshire in the early 19th Century.{{PastScape |num=48764|accessdate=6 November 2019}} Parts of it are in the collections of the British Museum and the Yorkshire Museum.{{cite book |authorlink=Graham Webster (archaeologist)|last=Webster|first=G |year=1971 |chapter=A hoard of Roman military equipment from Fremington Hagg |editor-last=Butler |editor-first=R. M. |title=Soldier and Civilian in Roman Yorkshire: Essays to Commemorate the Nineteenth Centenary of the Foundation of York |publisher=Leicester University Press |pages=107–125}}
Discovery
The hoard was discovered before 1833, when the first objects were donated to the Yorkshire Museum. Other items were donated to the Museum by Captain Harland in 1852.{{cite book |authorlink=Charles Wellbeloved |last=Wellbeloved |first=Charles |year=1881 |title=Handbook to the Grounds and Museum of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society |page=115 |publisher=John Sampson}} In 1880 A. W. Franks donated a portion of the hoard to the British Museum.{{cite journal |title=Roman Horse-Trappings from Fremington Hagg, Reeth, Yorkshire, N.R |first=P. T. |last=Craddock |first2=Janet |last2=Lang |first3=K. S. |last3=Painter |year=1973 |journal=British Museum Quarterly |volume=37 |pages=9–17 |doi=10.2307/4423122}}
Contents
There are seven pieces in the British Museum and 68 pieces in the Yorkshire Museum which, together, probably constituted the original hoard. These are all harness fittings (horse gear) - decorative elements used on reigns and other straps. A further 28 objects in the Yorkshire Museum are associated with the hoard, but were considered by Graham Webster as not belonging to it - these include a scabbard mount, a chape, terret rings, studs, and other mounts.
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File:YORYM H141 18.jpg
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The hoard may represent a stolen or looted collection of Roman military fittings from the invasion period or an itinerant metalworker's stock hoard.{{cite book |first=M. C. |last=Bishop |chapter=Weaponry and military equipment |title=Artefacts in Roman Britain: Their Purpose and Use |editor-link=Lindsay Allason-Jones |editor-first=Lindsay |editor-last=Allason-Jones |page=122 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |date=2011}}