MINING OPERATIONS OE TUE ROMANS. 15 



informs us that a pig of lead, in perfect preservation, with 

 the stamp of the imperial works, as above given, and of the 

 time of Hadrian, is exhibited in the dining-roorn of Linley 

 Hall, the residence of Mr. More, near which are the 

 remains of a Roman villa. The vveight of this pig is 190 Fb. 

 It was found about 60 years since in the parish of Shelve ; 

 and one exactly like it has been found much more re- 

 cently in the parish of Snead, and is now in the Mu- 

 seum of Joseph Mayer, Esq., at Liverpool. The descrip- 

 tion of the pig from Snailbeach, now in the British 

 Museum, agrees with this account. Mr. Wright's descrip- 

 tion of the great open trenches, excavated above one another 

 in the declivity of the mountain, coincides with Mr. Strange's 

 account of the " very deep and large caverns in the lime- 

 stone," which he saw at the Roman lead mines of 

 Kevenpwll-du, near Machen, in Monmouthshire.* Mr. 

 Wright, moreover, gives a wood-cut of two remarkable 

 wooden implements, of the size and shape of a common 

 spade, with handles only just long enough to hold by, and 

 with other peculiarities. They were found in the mine. 



NORFOLK. 



Mr. Samuel Woodward, in bis Descriptive Outline of the 

 Roman Remains in Norfolk, traces a Roman road to the 

 west of Venta Icenorum, leading to Peterborough ; and, 

 Coming to the parish of Saham, he says, " In removing 

 Saham wood, some years ago, tbree pigs of Roman lead 

 were discovered, and sold to the village plumber.f 



SOMERSETSHIRE. 



A pig was found some years ago at Bath, near the 



* Archaologia, vol. v., p. 75. This account of the open workings of the 

 Romans is confirmed by other vvriters ; seo Beihe, p. 27. 



t Archmologia, vol. xxiii., p. 369, London, 1881. 



