ROMANO-BRITISH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 



Cotton [Mill and Mallows]. — Mill Cotton seems not to be Roman ; Mallows Cotton a 



villa : see p. 194. In Raunds parish. 

 Cranford St. John. — Coin of Constantine [Gentleman's Magaxme (1757), p. 20]. Coins 



and pottery [Kelly's Director\\. 

 Cranslev. — Two liglit-coloured jugs and a third with Late Celtic affinities found 1892 



between Cranslev Wood and Mawsley Wood [Northampton Museum]. Whether the 



objects found in 1882 include Roman things is doubtful [Proceedings of the Society of jlnti- 



guaries, ix. 93]. 

 Crick. — Silver coin of Hadrian [Morton, p. 532]. 

 Culworth. — Coin of Quintillus [Beesley's Banhury, p. 30]. 

 Dallington. — Trench full of rude potsherds (i bit of Samian), found while making a railway 



siding in 1861 ; either a rubbish pit or a rude kiln [Associated Archit. Soc. Reports, vi. 



219, xiii. 125 ; Archaologia, xliii. 9 ; Northampton Museum]. 

 Daventry. — Villa inside pre-Roman camp on Borough Hill : see p. 195. 



Foundations at Burnt Walls : see p. 195. 

 Deene. — Bronze figurine of Minerva [Archatological Institute, 'Lincoln ' vol. p. xxix.]. 

 Deeping (West). — Skeleton, 5 much worn 'first brass' coins of Claudius I., Vespasian 



Nerva, Hadrian, Sabina, enamelled circular fibula, enamelled fibula shaped like a duck, 



3 rings, 2 bronze pins; found together in February, 1880. Now in Dr. Walker's 



collection in Peterborough. 

 Desborough. — Skeletons, bones, pottery, near railway station [Sir Hy. Dryden]. 

 DoDFORD. — Coins of Tetricus, Constantine, etc. [Morton, p. 532 ; Bridges, i. 50]. 

 DusTON. — Villa or village : see p. 197. 

 Evenley. — Coins (probably hoard), several hundred in number, of Nero, Domitian, Sev. 



Alexander, Probus, Carausius, Constantine, etc., found 1826 in draining Addington's 



Meadow [B.iker, i. 617]. 



Hoard, found 1854, '" earthenware urn : 2,448 'second brass' of Diocletian to 



Constantine Land 705 'third brass' of Valerian to Diocletian, apparently all mixed 



together [Numismatic Chronicle, xvii. (1854) 38, xi. (1871) 174]. 



Coins, including a Conbtantius, found in eighteenth century at Astwick [Bridges, 



i. 168]. 



Potsherds, vaguely mentioned in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, sen 2, ii. 75- 

 Everdon. — Coin of Constantine period, mortar, ashes — ploughed up in Longsmall Field [Baker, 



i. 368 ; hence Whellan, p. 415]. 

 Farthingstone. — See Castle Dykes. 

 Finedon. — Plain urn [Northampton Museum]. 

 Fineshade. — Coins, vaguely mentioned [Morton, p. 532]. 

 Foscote (Foxcote). — Villa: see p. 199. In Towcester parish. 

 FoTHERiNGHAY. — Pottery (much of it Late Celtic in character), skeletons, coins of later 



emperors, horns of red deer — in the gravel quarry called Elton Ballast Hole [R. F. 



Whistler, History of Elton (London, 1892), pp. 63-4]. 

 Gayton. — Villa : see p. 198. 



Gretton. — Coins mentioned vaguely [Kelly's Directory]. 



Gritworth. — Five urns, .'' Roman [Morton, p. 530 ; Beesley's Banhury, p. 32]. 

 Guilsborough. — Earthwork, now mostly destroyed : the plan is not Roman [Camden ; 



Morton, p. 524 ; Wetton, p. no, etc.]. 

 Haddon (West). — Urn containing ashes, covered by flat stone (? Roman). Elsewhere in 



parish Roman coins [Morton, p. 530]. The notion that Ostor Hill in this parish has 



anything to do with Ostorius is untenable. 

 Hardingstone. — Silver coins (i of Nero), perhaps hoard, found near Queen's Cross [Morton, 



p. 504 ; hence Bridges, i. 359, Whellan, p. 264 ; etc.]. 



Three coins of Probus and Tacitus, and perhaps more, said to have been found in 



an urn in Hardingstone Field, 1845 [Sir Hy. Dryden]. Perhaps a ' third brass ' hoard of 



circa a.d. 250-80. 



Potsherds (including Castor ware), bones of animals, found 1853 [Journal of the 



British Archieological Association, x. 92]. 



Pottery and a well found in 1884, 800 yards east of Hunsbury Camp [Associated 



Archit. Soc. Reports, xviii. 61]. 



Handbricks, 'third brass' coin of Claud. Gothicus, potsherds and perhaps rude kiln, 



found in 1875 on north side of Hunsbury Hill [ibid. p. 61]. 



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