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I)resent occupier of the farm, Mr. Lucas, showed me a coin 

 lately found, on the reverse was GENIO POPVLI 

 E,OMA.NI. It appeared to me to be a coin of the Emperor 

 Maximianus, stnick in Britain, similar to that given in the 

 " ArchjBological Journal," No. 94, p. 156, pi. II., 1867. (See 

 paper on Roman coins struck in Britain, by the Count De Salis.) 



There is now at Tottenham House, the seat of the Marquis 

 of Ailesbury, some very good Roman pottery and coins, 

 found at Stinchcombe, parish of Mildenhall, on the farm of 

 Mr. Joseph Butler, where a tessellated pavement has also 

 been found. The pottery consists of coarse red ware and 

 Samian, one or two vessels being nearly perfect, and many 

 fragments of various kinds. Several of the potters' marks 

 may be read. The coins have been examined and described, 

 but I believe not published ; one I read was in good preser- 

 vation— ESVVIVS TETRICVS. There is also a piece of 

 rough sculpture preserved at the farm, of which I made a 

 sketch, 3rd October, 1867. From Sandy Lane the Roman 

 road can be traced to Speen, the Roman Spince, in Berks., 

 but the distance is longer than that given in the Iter. Six 

 miles east of Marlborough is Rudge, where the metal cup was 

 found in a well, having on the circumference below the rim the 

 names of some of the stations on the line of the Roman wall 

 in Northumberland. It is engraved in Horsley's "Brit. 

 Rom.," p. 192, n. Ixxiv., and described pp. 329, 330 ; also in 

 Bruce's " Roman Wall," p. 252, second edition. The inscrip- 

 tion reads thus — "AMais Aballava, Uxeloduno Amboglannis, 

 Banna." The Roman town of Spinse was, according to 

 Stukeley (" Itin. Cur.," p. 69), on the spot where now stands the 

 north part of the town of Newbury, still called Spinham. 

 iV'ewbury has derived its name from the ruins of the old town 

 of Spinse. From hence the road passed on to Silchester, the 

 ancient Calleva, which is the termination of this Iter. 



I must now give some account of the examination of the 



