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Figure 7.4 Left-hand panel of the distance slab found at Bridgeness, West Lothian, 1868,
marking the eastern terminus of the Antonine Wall, and erected by the Second Augustan
Legion early in the reign of Antoninus Pius (AD 138-61). The scene shows a fully equipped
cavalryman triumphantly overcoming four native warriors (RIB no. 2 I 39). (Copyright:
The Trustees of the National Museums of Scotland.)
wool by her side.^17 Other evidence for the preparation of thread and its manufacture
into cloth is given by the so-called weaving-combs of bone and antler, as for example
the pieces from Hunsbury hill-fort, Northants; Danebury, Hants; and from Padua in
the Venetia region of north-east ltaly.18 Loom weights of baked clay, as used on the
upright warp-weighted loom, were triangular in shape and pierced across the angles
during the Iron Age, and, like the spindle-whorls, were of a weight appropriate to100