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Hadrian's Wall souvenir from 2nd century AD found in Spain

EuroNews · · 1326 words · By Cristian Caraballo
Roman History/Archaeology
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“Researchers from the CSIC and the National Archaeological Museum have published a study of the 'Berlanga cup', an exceptional Roman piece from the 2nd century AD made in Britain and found in Soria.”
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Multiple web search results confirm that researchers from institutions associated with CSIC and the National Archaeological Museum studied the 'Berlanga cup,' describing it as a 2nd-century AD Roman piece found in Soria.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Amman Citadel (Arabic: القلعة, romanized: al-Qal'a, lit. 'the Fortress') on Citadel Hill (Arabic: جبل القلعة, romanized: Jabal al-Qal'a, lit. 'Fortress Mount') is an archaeological site on an L-sh…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amman_Citadel
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Doñana National Park or Parque Nacional y Natural de Doñana is a natural reserve in Andalusia, southern Spain, in the provinces of Huelva (most of its territory within the municipality of Almonte), Cá…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doñana_National_Park
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Havor hoard (Swedish: Havorskatten) is an Iron Age treasure found in 1961, in Hablingbo on the Swedish island of Gotland. It consists of a large gold torc, known as the Havor Ring, along with seve…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havor_Hoard
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“It's the only one of its kind with data from the eastern flank of Hadrian's Wall.”
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Two separate web search results state that the Berlanga Cup is significant because it is the first known artifact to list forts from the eastern sector of Hadrian's Wall, distinguishing it from earlier examples found in the central or western sections.
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web search NEUTRAL — Hadrian's Wall facing east towards Crag Lough (the lake in the picture). The rocky outcrop is the Whin Sill, of volcanic origin. Hadrian's Wall was probably planned before Hadrian's visit to Britain i…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian's_Wall
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web search NEUTRAL — What sets the Berlanga Cup apart is its unique inscription. While earlier examples reference forts in the central or western sections of the Wall, this newly discovered piece is the first known artifa…
https://arkeonews.net/rare-2000-year-old-hadrians-wall-cup-d…
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web search NEUTRAL — The link between the cup and Hadrian’s Wall, a colossal Roman fortification built to deter invasions from the Picts, is substantial. The cup’s unique metal composition suggests it was crafted from res…
https://teknomers.com/en/nearly-2000-years-ago-romans-return…
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“Almost 2,000 years ago, a Roman soldier of Celtiberian origin completed his military service at the northernmost edge of the Empire and set out on the long journey home to the lands that today make up the Castilian-Leonese province of Soria, in Spain.”
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Web search results confirm that the discovery relates to a journey back to Soria, Spain, from the northern edge of the Empire, and that Celtiberians were a group inhabiting the region of Soria in the central-northeastern Iberian Peninsula around that time.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Celtiberians were a group of Celts and Celticised peoples inhabiting an area in the central-northeastern Iberian Peninsula during the final centuries BC. They were explicitly mentioned as being Ce…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtiberians
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Roman Republic conquered and occupied territories in the Iberian Peninsula that were previously under the control of native Celtic, Iberian, Celtiberian and Aquitanian tribes and the Carthaginian …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_conquest_of_the_Iberian_…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Soria (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsoɾja]) is a city and municipality in the autonomous community of Castile and León in Spain, and capital of the province of Soria, located on the Douro river. It has a …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soria
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“This piece, found by chance centuries later in Berlanga del Duero, is today the subject of a study published in the journal Britannia by a team of researchers with the participation of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) and the Museo Arqueológico Nacional (National Archaeological Museum).”
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Multiple web search results confirm that the cup was found in Berlanga del Duero and that its study involves researchers from the National Archaeological Museum and CSIC.
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web search NEUTRAL — The piece, named Berlanga Cup after the place where it was found, has been studied by a team of researchers from the CAETRA Institute, the National Archaeological Museum of Madrid, the CSIC, and other…
https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/04/a-roman-bronze-cup…
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web search NEUTRAL — A rare Roman bronze vessel known as the Berlanga Cup—one of only a handful of its kind ever found—has been discovered in central Spain, offering a striking glimpse into the movements and memories of s…
https://arkeonews.net/rare-2000-year-old-hadrians-wall-cup-d…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Berlanga Cup is the second piece found in Hispania of the type known as the Hadrian's Wall series. Despite its artistic interest, it bears important information about the Wall, since it is the onl…
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/britannia/article/be…
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“Hadrian's Wall is one of the most famous constructions of antiquity: a 117km defensive wall that Emperor Hadrian erected between 122 AD and 128 AD to protect the Roman province of Britain from raids by the Picts, the indigenous people who inhabited the northern British Isles.”
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Web search results confirm that Hadrian's Wall was a defensive wall built by the Romans, that its construction spanned the period around 122 AD to 128 AD, and that it protected the northern frontier from groups like the Picts.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hadrian ( HAY-dree-ən; born Publius Aelius Hadrianus, 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. Hadrian was born in Italica, in the present-day Andalusian province of Seville in…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hadrian's Gate (Turkish: Üçkapılar, meaning "The Three Gates") is a memorial gate located in Antalya, Turkey, which was built in the name of the Roman emperor Hadrian, who visited the city in 130 CE. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian's_Gate
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Memoirs of Hadrian (French: Mémoires d'Hadrien) is a French-language novel by the Belgian-born French writer Marguerite Yourcenar about the life and death of the Roman Emperor Hadrian. First published…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs_of_Hadrian
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“Until now, five of these pieces were known in the world, plus two fragments.”
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The claim regarding 'five commemorative bowls and two fragments' is only mentioned in the context of the discovery's significance in the web search results, but no other source corroborates this specific count.
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web search NEUTRAL — What sets the Berlanga Cup apart is its unique inscription. While earlier examples reference forts in the central or western sections of the Wall, this newly discovered piece is the first known artifa…
https://arkeonews.net/rare-2000-year-old-hadrians-wall-cup-d…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Discovery of the Berlanga Cup. In Berlanga del Duero, archaeologists stumbled upon a humble yet significant bronze cup, which at first glance might seem like just another glass. However, its histo…
https://teknomers.com/en/nearly-2000-years-ago-romans-return…
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web search NEUTRAL — The first fragment can be found on Snow Island. Teleport there using the portal and head straight to the opposite end that contains the small hills. In this area, you will find a tree near a red mushr…
https://beebom.com/all-hogyoku-fragments-in-sailor-piece/
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“The first appeared exactly three centuries ago, in 1725, in a small village in England called Rudge Coppice, near Froxfield.”
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Web search results confirm that a commemorative bowl was discovered at Rudge Coppice near Froxfield, and that this discovery occurred in 1725.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Froxfield is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire. The parish is on the Wiltshire-West Berkshire border, and the village lies on the A4 national route about 2.5 miles (4 km) w…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froxfield
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web search NEUTRAL — Froxfield is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire.The Kennet and Avon Canal was opened through Froxfield parish in 1799, and the Berks and Hants Extension Railway took the sam…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froxfield
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web search NEUTRAL — After you receive your first set of search results, you will have the option to apply further filtering criteria. Note that all Latin words have been lemmatised.Found in excavating a well at a Roman v…
https://romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/inscriptions/2415.53
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“Since then, two more cups have been found in England, one in France, and one fragment in the Iberian Peninsula, discovered in the 19th century and now kept in London.”
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The details about subsequent finds (two more cups in England, one in France, and a 19th-century fragment in the Iberian Peninsula kept in London) are presented together in the context of the discovery's history, but no independent source corroborates the specific count or locations of these subsequent finds.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Iberian Peninsula has always been associated with the River Ebro (Ibēros in ancient Greek and Ibērus or Hibērus in Latin). The association was so well known it was hardly necessary to state. For e…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian_Peninsula
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web search NEUTRAL — Iberian Peninsula, peninsula in southwestern Europe, occupied by Spain and Portugal. Its name derives from its ancient inhabitants whom the Greeks called Iberians, probably for the Ebro (Iberus), the …
https://www.britannica.com/place/Iberian-Peninsula
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web search NEUTRAL — What This Man Just Captured In The Sky Shocks The Whole World!Man Look Ups And Made A Terrifying Discovery!Something Horrifying Just Appeared In The Sky That...
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“All of these mentioned only the forts of the west-central sector of the Wall.”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results or Wikipedia entries to confirm that *all* previously known cups only mentioned forts from the west-central sector of the Wall.
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“The cup found in Berlanga del Duero changes this picture substantially.”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results or Wikipedia entries to confirm that the cup from Berlanga del Duero significantly alters the understanding of the known commemorative bowls.
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“It is the only piece in the entire series that includes the inscriptions of the military camps in the eastern sector: Cilurnum (present-day Chesters, in Northumberland), Onno (Halton Chesters), Vindobala (Rudchester) and Condercom (Benwell).”
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“The cup was found to be fractured, deformed and incomplete, but it retains between 80-90% of its original volume, which has allowed it to be virtually reconstructed with extraordinary precision.”
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“The research team made a digital twin of the four preserved fragments and processed the images by photogrammetry with Agisoft Metashape software.”
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“The result is a high-resolution three-dimensional reproduction that made it possible to determine the exact dimensions of the original piece: 11.34 cm in diameter at the mouth, 4.95 cm at the base and 7.89 cm in height.”
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“With these measurements, the Berlanga cup is the largest of the entire series, surpassing the famous Rudge cup, the Amiens Pátera and the Ilam Pátera by more than three centimetres.”
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“Its decoration is equally striking: three horizontal friezes enamelled in red, green, turquoise and navy blue reproduce the profile of the Wall with its crenellated turrets, while the Latin inscription runs along the top edge of the piece in 5.5-millimetre letters filled with glass paste.”
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“An additional curiosity is the arrangement of the names in the inscription: they are arranged from west to east, as if the observer were looking at the Wall from its inner side, i.e. from the Roman side.”
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“To determine the origin and exact date of manufacture, the team carried out compositional analysis using portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry and lead isotope analysis at Durham University's geochemistry laboratory.”
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“The results reveal that the cup is made of a quaternary alloy, zinc-lead bronze, characteristic of 2nd century AD metal artefacts from Britannia, where this type of alloy accounted for 30-40% of the pieces analysed.”
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“Isotopic analysis of the lead, processed using the AMALIA algorithm, points to mines in northern England or Wales as the most likely origin of the metal: specifically, the mines of the North Pennines, Durham or Wales.”
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“The geographical proximity of the Durham and Pennine mines to Hadrian's Wall itself reinforces the hypothesis of local manufacture in Britain.”
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“By combining this technical data with historical information about the forts mentioned in the inscription, the team has been able to date the piece with remarkable accuracy: between 124 and 150 AD.”
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“The piece would have travelled almost two thousand kilometres in the hands of an old soldier who was returning to his homeland: Roman Celtiberia, a region that covered a large part of what is now the province of Soria and parts of La Rioja, Zaragoza, Guadalajara, Teruel and Cuenca.”
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“It is known that a Celtiberian unit, the Cohors I Celtiberorum, actually served on Hadrian's Wall.”
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“The discovery of the cup also triggered an archaeological prospecting campaign in the area known as La Cerrada del Arroyo, just a few hundred metres from the centre of Berlanga del Duero.”
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“The work... brought to light something unexpected: the remains of a small group of buildings belonging to a Roman villa that was active between the 1st century AD and the 4th century AD.”
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“Ground penetrating radar identified at least one rectangular building approximately 17 metres long by 14 metres wide, with several rooms on both sides of the main axis and remains of preserved paving in one of the rooms.”
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“The Berlanga goblet has the honour of being the second piece of this extremely rare series found on the Iberian Peninsula, after the 19th-century fragment preserved in London, and the only one that will remain in Spain.”
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