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tusks and cocks' spurs ; pottery of several different kinds, coarse 

 black and grey ware, of which the larger culinary vessels were made j 

 a harder kind, of brown color, for drinking vessels, some of them 

 ornamented with patterns laid on in white lines; and basins of fine 

 Samian ware ; upon a fragment of one of them an embossed design 

 of animals and figures, suggesting a portion of a zodiac ; mortaria, 

 for grinding grain; a single thin glass bowl of green color; quan- 

 tities of window-glass of various tints and thickness, some of the 

 pieces smooth on one side and rough on the other — almost identical 

 with " Hartley's patent " ; small pieces of marble and spar, the 

 latter thrown down apparently in one spot ; nails of all sizes, from 

 the " clavi trababales/' which held in their places the large beams 

 of the roof, to small iron tacks ; iron pincers, gouges, hooks, rings, 

 knife blades, cramps, and the bowl of a fire-shovel — found in one of 

 the stoke-holes ; fragments of lead and sheet-copper ; bones of cattle, 

 deer, swine, &c. ; shells of oysters, whelks, mussels, and snails. 



Of personal ornaments and utensils there were bone pins and knife 

 handles, a bronze pin silvered, wooden rings and whorls, bronze 

 fibulae, buckles, armillse, links, and lockets ; and — most interesting 

 of all, because identifying the occupation of the villa with post- 

 Christian times — a small bronze seal or stud, set with a white stone, 

 bearing a crucifix impressed upon it. A.11 these are in my possession, 

 and form the nucleus of a small parochial museum, which, I trust, 

 may be preserved and extended by my successors. 



The coins found were chiefly of second and third brass, comprising 

 specimens of Victorinus, Aurelianus, Carausius, Allectus, Helena, 

 Alexander (silvered), Constantinus Magnus, Crispus,ConstantinusII, 

 Constans, Constantius II, and Magnentius. A first brass of Com- 

 modus, and one of Helena were the only coins of that size. No 

 gold or silver ones were found, nor any object whatever of any 

 intrinsic value. 



I have a few Roman coins in my collection, not found by myself, 

 but picked up at various times by others within the limits of the 

 parish. Among these is a second brass, in good condition, of 

 Antoninus Pius, and a remarkably beautiful bronze medallion of the 

 Empress Faustina. 



