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elsewhere.* In the present notes, however, I propose to 

 deal with some of the various antiquities of Roman date 

 which have from time to time been washed out of the cliff. 

 Unfortunately, at the present time objects are rarely met 

 with, and certainly, from my own experience, they do not 

 occur in anything like the profusion in which they did twenty 

 years ago. 1 am informed that in earlier times it was a much 

 better collecting ground still, and of this I have abundant 

 evidence. Unquestionably the person who loved more 

 than all others to gather the various objects as they were 

 washed out of the cliffs, was a somewhat eccentric collector, 

 Thomas Smith of South Ferriby, locally known as "Coin 

 Tommy," who died recently. With a very few exceptions 

 the whole of his collection was secured for the museum at 

 Hull, being sold at Barton-on-Humber, and these specimens, 

 together with others collected by Mr. J. Hatliffe, Mr. T. 

 Havercroft, and myself, form the material upon which the 

 following notes are based. I have also had an opportunity of 

 seeing a small but interesting collection in the possession of 

 Mrs. Pechell, whose late husband, formerly residing at Bar- 

 ton, secured several interesting objects. 



South Ferriby is within quite a short distance of Winter- 

 ingham, which was the point on the south bank of the 

 Humber at which the Roman soldiers, on their way from 

 Lincoln to York, along Ermine Street, embarked for Brough, 

 the landing-place on the Yorkshire side. In addition to the 

 various Roman remains found at Winteringham, there is 

 evidence that small parties of Romans occupied various 

 suitable sites in the district. One of these was at Horkstow, 

 about a mile from South Ferriby, where there is a wonderful 

 mosaic pavement, upon which a chariot race is represented, 

 and which is figured in Fowler's well known coloured plate. 

 This pavement is about all that is left of what was once a 

 magnificent villa, probably occupied by some Roman of note. 



From Horkstow, over the hills behind South Ferriby, 

 along what is now known as Middlegate, was a Roman road 

 leading to a spring near the Humber side. This spring, 

 surrounded by trees, still exists, though it is now much nearer 

 the Humber shore than it was in Roman times. It is re- 

 ferred to in old documents, and still known amongst the 

 older Ferriby folk as St. Chad's Well, or Cadwell ; hence the 

 name often applied to the natives of Ferriby, — "Caddies." 

 The name alone of this spring is evidence of its antiquity, 



* " Notes on the Geology of South Ferriby, Lines," by the present 

 writer ; Trans, of the Lincolnshire Naturalists' Union for 1905, pp. 53-72. 



