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gatherers, and hung them upon gibbets. Olennitts made his escape. He 

 fled for refuge to a castle known by the name of Flevum, at that time 

 garrisoned by a strong party of Eomans and auxiUaries, who were stationed 

 in that quarter for the defence of the country bordering on the German 

 Ocean." (A>-N.u,s, Book iv. lxxii.) 



This led to a very bloody war, in which the Roman power in 

 northern Germany was shaken to its foundations; the legions 

 being again and again beaten, and on one occasion a body of 

 nine hundred Romans cut to pieces to the last man. 

 Other articles found are — 



I. Some loose tesserae, rounded with wear on the upper sides, 

 and evidently thrown away with rubbish, from repairing a house ; 

 also some unused mortar, and pieces of wall plaster with coloring 

 of dull red, buff, and green, similar to those found m Roman 

 houses at Cirencester. This mortar is very friable and inferior 

 in quality to that used in the wall of the city. 



The tesselated pavement was, at the beginning of the empire, 

 a mark of the ofoial quarters of a Roman General. It would 

 seem, indeed, to have been made use of as an emblem of the 

 permanent conquest of the spot on which his tent was pitched; 

 somewhat as we now annex a newly discovered island by planting 

 the British flag ; for Sttetonixts (himself a Praetorian tribune, or 

 in modern phrase, a colonel in the Guards), states that the mate- 

 rials for making tesselated pavement always formed part of the 

 bacraace of a Roman General on the march. {Life of Jxtlitts 



CiESAK.) .-,-114- 



II. Two pieces of Cornish Malachite Copper, evidently kept 

 as curiosities : as they are not cut or shaped in any way. 



A rounded ball of flint, with some artificial indentations 

 round the centre, as if for placing the finger tips; about If 



inches diameter. -, i - 



III Small articles of Brokze, &c. A little stand, about 



2 ins. square ; a needle, 6 ins. in length, the eye of which is formed 



by beating one end flat and cutting a slit in it with a chisel; 



the shank is round, but squared or four-sided towards the point. 

 A fibula with its spring and catch, perfect when raised, but 



broken by handling it too soon after being exposed to the air. 



