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number of Roman remains were turned up by the plough. Mr. Hardwick soon 
obtained a large collection of coins, though they were almost all of small brass. 
No specimen of gold coin is known to have been found, and very few of silver. 
A small but very perfect silver coin still remains in the collection of the late Mr. 
Hardwick, with the bust of the Emperor Nerva (A.D. 96-98). Many with the 
effigies of the Menapian pirate, the British usurper Carausius (A.D. 287-293), 
Allectus (A.D. 294-296), and Constantine (A.D. 306-337). Several of them had on 
the reverse the children sucking the wolf, illustrating how the Romans at that late 
period of their history preserved the annals of their past on their national coinage, 
a point, by the way, in which the English have been grossly negligent. The 
absence of gold and silver coins is what would be the result of a deliberate 
military evacuation, followed by plunder of the natives in after years. Mr. Hard- 
wick also found some curious little rudely made bronzes of a stag, a mouse, a 
lion, and a cock, varying in size from an inch to an inch anda half. The three 
latter have been figured by Mr. Thomas Wright, in their real size, in his Wander- 
ings of an Antiquary (p. 33). He figures also a small bronze chopper, or cultrum, 
and he believed them to have been simply children’s toys, although it had been the 
fashion to call them ex votos, or votive offerings. In Mr. Hardwick’s collection also 
were several finger rings, an imperfect brooch, a bronze open-work knife handle, 
in the form of a running greyhound-like dog, keys, pins, beads, &c. He had also 
many flat circular stones, or querns, used by the women for grinding corn by hand, 
from 12 to 18 inches in diameter, with a hole in the upper stone more or less 
imperfect, some curious fragments of pottery and glass, a bowl of finely-glazed 
pottery work with cameo ornamentation, &c. Mr. Hardwick gave away, un- 
fortunately, many of the most interesting objects of his collection to Dean 
Merewether, Mr. Roach Smith, and to many other enthusiastic antiquarians, and 
thus they have been scattered abroad to enrich private collections and are lost to 
the county. 
In the years 1840-41 and 42 the late Dean Merewether, with the consent of 
Mr. John Hardwick, the proprietor, made a partial exploration of the site. A 
street was traced out by the remaining foundations of the walls on either side. 
The walls were found from one to three feet below the surface. These were about 
two feet wide and five or six feet deep. The base of a suite of rooms and passages 
which must have formed a house of no mean order, was laid bare. There were 
tracings of decorations on the walls, tesselated pavements, and beneath was a 
hypocaust for warming the apartments by hot air. The Mosaic patterns of the 
pavements were marked by tessere, from three-eighths to half an inch square, 
whose prevailing colours were red, blue, and white. One pavement in scroll 
pattern, measuring thirteen feet by two feet, was found in a fair state of pre- 
servation. It seemed to form the floor border in a large room, and a portion of the 
plastering on the side walls presented still a beautiful red colouring. There were 
also devices of sea-horses and fish on the pavement patterns in an imperfect state 
of preservation. Three portions of these pavements were removed and the tesserz 
re-set in plaster of Paris, for the Museum of the Philosophical and Antiquarian 
Society, and they are at the present time in the Museum at the Library. 
