NOTES. 77 



which is nol in Mr. Reedinjj's work, nor in Pegge's ' Essay on the Coins of Cuno- 

 beline.' It was lately found near Epping : the Metal is Electrum ; its weight 

 3 dwts. 10 grs. ; on one side is represented a man in Armour on horseback ; on 

 the reverse, Tasciovricon.' 



" Near Harlow, Essex, are the remains of a Roman station, not j-et noticed 

 by antiquarians. The Castellum, or place of strength, appears to have been in 

 the neighbouring Parish of Latton, on an Elevated field which was formerly 

 almost surrounded bj- the waters of the River Stort. The works are not now 

 Visible, but a few feet below the surface are the foundations of very strong walls. 



" It is not improbable that this was one of the forts formed by the Romans to 

 defend the Trinobantes from the Cateuchlani ; as the Stort here, and, for some 

 distance up its course, divides the Counties of Essex and Herts. This Conjec- 

 ture is rendered more plausible by the appearance of four of these stations on 

 the Essex side of the River, in the short space of nine miles — viz., this at 

 Harlow or Latton ; one at Hallingbury, called Wallbnry, distant four miles ; one 

 at Bishop Stortford, three miles, and another at Stanstead Mount-Fitchet, two 

 miles further. 



" Perhaps some of our Antiquarian Readers can assist in discovering the 

 Roman name of this Station at Harlow ; it is distant from London 23 miles, 

 from Cheshunt 12 miles, and from St. Albans, or Verulamium (24) twenty-four 

 miles. 



" Amongst the Antiquities found here (most of which are in Mr. Barnard's 

 possession) are, a small bronze head of Silenus, of very good Workmanship ; a 

 large bronze brooch, and fragments of a Cup of highly polished red ware, and on 

 the outside of which are figures of a Cock and Triton, found in a grave eight or 

 ten feet deep. 



" British Coins. — A helmeted head with Cunobilini ; reverse, a hog- and 

 Tasciovanit. — Another with a head on one side ; on the other a man striking 

 upon an anvil. — One with a star, between the rays of which are the letters 

 Verlamio ; reverse, an Ox.' — Another similar, except that the head of the Ox is 

 turned the Contrary way — and two or three others not intelligible. 



" Roman Coins. — Silver, of Sabina, Tautus the Elder, and Constantinus Junr. 



" Brass. — Various sizes and V^arious Emperors, from the first Claudius to 

 Valentinian — in all, upwards of 200." 



Ancient Remains at Shoebury. — " The well-known camp at Shoeburyness 

 on its first establishment, was placed within the entrenchments of the Danish 

 fortress mentioned in the Saxon Chronicle [see Mr. F. C. J. Spurrell's paper 

 on 'Haesten's Camps at Shoebury and Benfleet, Essex,' ESSEX NATURALIST, vol. 

 iv., pp. 150-153], and previous to the Danish occupation the district appears to have 

 been a favourite dwelling place with the earlier inhabitants of this country, for 

 at various times considerable numbers of Celtic weapons of the Bronze period 

 have been unearthed, besides palico- and neolithic implements. In fact, the 

 whole district is rich in antiquities, Roman pottery and weapons and Saxon 

 and Danish remains having frequently come to light. Lately the military 

 authorities have been forming a new road near the artillery barracks, and in 



1 "In consequence of the connection between the n.imes of Ciinobeline and Tascio, those coins 

 which bear the latter name, without the former, are usually attributed to that monarch." — 

 " Keeding on Coinage." Vol. i., p. 200. 



2 Engraved in Reeding, PI. 5, Fig. 23. 



3 Ibid, Fig. 3. 



