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the end of the century a Mr. Meyrick, the proprietor of the estate, determined to 
stub up the bushes and clear the grounds. At that time there were portions of 
the walls of houses standing above ground, and quantities of antiquities of all 
sorts were found: vaulted chambers, sometimes containing wheat black as if 
charred with fire; tesselated pavements, bronze statuettes, fragments of pottery 
and coins, with scoriz, cinders, and ashes, in abundance. 
In Britton and Brayley’s Beauties of England and Wales (V. vi., p. 514) 
it is stated there was found there ‘‘an immense quantity of Roman coins and 
some British. Among the antiquities were fibule, lares, lachrymatories, lamps, 
rings and fragments of tesselated pavements. Some pillars were also discovered 
with stones having holes for the jambs of the doors, and a vault or two in which 
was earth of a black colour and in a cinerous state . . . Innumerable pieces of 
grey and red pottery lie scattered over the whole tract (1805), some of them of 
patterns by no means inelegant . . . . Some of the large stones found 
among the ruins of the station, and which appear to have been used in building, 
display strong marks of fire. During the course of last summer (1804) in widening 
a road that crosses the land, several skeletons were discovered; and also the 
remains of a stone wall, apparently the front of a building; the stones were well 
worked and of considerable size.” 'The same writer also states that the ‘coins 
which were chiefly of the Lower Empire were of gold, silver, and copper.” 
The British Archeological Society visited the site in 1870 (see Journal, 
Vol. xxvii., pp. 203—18). The coins then exhibited by Mr. Palmer consisted 
of one gold, six silver and two copper British coins, some of them of Cunobelin ; 
one hundred and eighteen silver, billon, and brass Roman coins, ranging fronr 
Claudius, A.D. 41, to Magnentius, a.D. 350—3 ; twenty fibule of bronze, a silver 
ring, six bronze rings, bronze keys, pins and nails, four intagli (two of them corne- 
lian), glass beads of various colours, bronze buckles, and other bronze instruments. 
In the Archeologia (Vol. ix., Appendix, p. 368,) a figure of Diana is described, 
which is also said to have been found at Ariconium. 
Mr. Thomas Wright spent some time there to make enquiries. He says 
“Local tradition states that the town was beaten down and all the people killed ;” 
that the field of the site is called ‘‘ Bury Hill,” or ‘‘ Rose Hill,” and some think 
the stones built Ross; that the name of the house and estate of ‘‘ Bollitree” is 
vulgularly believed to be derived from its being built on the belly of the town ; 
and that the field sloping down from the site is called ‘‘ Killground Meadow,” 
from the blood of the people killed there. The gentle slope of the ground on the 
western side of the site towards Weston-under-Penyard is called ‘‘ Cinder Hill,” 
and the surface has only to be turned up at this time to show that it consists of 
an immense mass of iron scoric. A farm close by is called ‘Aske Farm,” pro- 
bably from the abundance of ashes and cinders found there. 
The site at the present time (1882) presents a blackened soil extending over an 
area of nearly one hundred acres. It is cultivated as arable land, and still yields 
Roman remains to every visitor who will look for them. 
