A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK 



the station, still standing in 1740, and the site generally, are described by J. Kirby [Suffjii 

 Traveller (ed. 2), 89-91]. Camden mentions Walton Castle, but not as a Roman station. 

 Gough in his 'Additions' to his edition of Camden speaks of 'a castle (at Walton), the 

 foundations 187 yds. long and 9 ft. thick . . . plenty of Roman coins and other anti- 

 quities found there' [Camden, Brit. (ed. Gough), ii, 85]. The mention of the length of wall 

 remaining is probably taken from Kirby. In Grose's account accompanying his text a view 

 apparently taken in 1 766 is given showing the remains of the wall lying upon the beach [Grose, 

 Antiq. of Engl, and (Fales ; Suppl. ii]. Besides the view of the ruined wall in Grose's account 

 others may be mentioned. There is a small sketch in Indian ink entitled ' Remains of Felixstow 

 Castle 1780,' the drawing being by Isaac Johnson, in vol. ii of SufF. Illus. (Fitch Coll.). Another 

 drawing in pen and ink, washed, was in the collection of the late Mr. Eyre of Ipswich. It pur- 

 ports to be a copy from a print in the possession of Mr. Oxburgh of HartclifF in Kent, the print 

 itself having been executed from a drawing made in 1700 by Thomas Bates of Ipswich. A 

 second copy of this print is in the collection of Miss Nina Layard of Ipswich. Neither print 

 nor original drawing is now traceable. These copies show the ruins of a circular bastion on the 

 edge of the cliff, evidently that of the one at the south-west angle of the station, with a small 

 portion of the south wall running seawards, and overhanging the precipice. Masses of the 

 same wall lie upon the beach. Mr. Eyre also had a tracing from a pen-and-ink outline 

 drawing washed with colour, of much earlier date than the last mentioned. Upon the 

 original drawing there appears to have been this inscription in writing of the 17th century : 

 'E Pros (?) Walton Caste!,' and it was signed in one corner 'John Sheppard 1623.' The 

 sea front of the station is represented entire, the edge of the cliff being in the foreground. A 

 circular bastion is seen at each angle, and a wide break about the centre of the front marks a 

 gateway. Beneath the view is a rough plan indicating that the walls of the station formed 

 a parallelogram with a bastion at each angle. The drawing from which this tracing was made 

 is not now to be found, and judging from the tracing it had the character of a sketch of the 

 1 8th rather than of the 17th century, although the writing on it seemed to be of the latter 

 period. Unless something more could be ascertained respecting the original drawing from 

 which the tracing in question was made, its value as an authority for the condition of the 

 remains early in the 17th century must be considered doubtful. Many objects of the Roman 

 period have been found about the site. Beginning with coins, it may be mentioned that Davy 

 [Suff. Coll. B.M. MSS. 19087, fol. 53-60] described a collection made at Felixstowe in the 

 years 1742-3-4, in full detail. The coins range from Pompey the Great (ob. 48 B.C.) 

 of whom there was one example, to Honorius (a.d. 395-423), and their total number amounted 

 to 420. This collection was the property of the Rev. W. Brown of Saxmundham, and at 

 the sale of his goods in 1827 it passed into the possession of the Rev. W. Layton of Ipswich. 

 Coins were found at a later date, of Victorinus (a.d. 265-8), Tetricus (a.d. 268-73), Urbs 

 Roma, Valens (2) (a.d. 364-78), and Gratian (a.d. 375-83) \yourn. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xiv, 

 271] ; also a gem of oval form, possibly a cornelian, engraved with a figure wearing a. petasus^ 

 and with a panther skin hanging from one arm. In the right hand it held a poppy head and 

 wheat ear, and in the left a pedum [ibid. 339]. A find is recorded in 1749 of very small 

 Roman coins and some pieces of metal, as if melted in the fire, near Bawdsey Haven [MS. 

 Min. Soc. Antiq. v, 241]. During the process of digging for coprolites in the field known as 

 the Park near Felixstowe Church, many objects of the Roman period were turned up. Such 

 as were noted were as follows : — ;-Vase of so-called Samian ware, with hunting scenes and 

 ornament of oak leaves and acorns (purchased by the South Kensington Museum), flue tiles, 

 amphorae^ lagenae, a small glass phial, bronze pms, tweezers, a speculum, several fibulae and 

 gold rings, silver rings, some set with stones, a gold chain of twisted wire, and a bronze bracelet, 

 a bronze disk enamelled (a zxxqaAzx fibula ?), a bronze enamelled tag ox fibula, and other objects 

 in the same metal ; coins of gold, silver, and bronze, of Severus (a.d. 222-35), Gordian III 

 (a.d. 238-44), Gallienus (a.d. 253-68), Victorinus (a.d. 265-8), Constantine (a.d. 306-37), 

 and Arcadius (.\.D. 383-408). There was a great quantity also of mussel, periwinkle, and cockle 

 shells, and of snail shells. Many sepulchral urns were dug up containing bones and ashes, 

 closed in some instances with a cover, in others only with a stone {Proc. Soc. Antiq. (Ser. 2), 

 xi, 12, 14: 'Communication from Mr. E. St. F. Moore of Woodhridgc ']. In 1843 Prof. 

 George Henslow and his father found ' a sort of kitchen midden in the London clay cliff near 

 Felixstowe.' Rough pottery, bones, cores of deer horns, a skull, rusty nails, and a so-called 

 Samian vase, were among the objects discovered in it [Antiq. xlii, 283 (1906)]. The Roman 

 objects of bronze in the collection of Lord Londesborough from this site are a bust of 

 Mercury and several keys [Antiq. Etching Club Publ. iii, pi. 25]. In the Ipswich Museum 

 there are three flue tiles, perfect, one of large size with reeded ornamentation ; vessels of 

 ordinary ware, some probably cinerary urns ; a large thumb-pot of unusual size, and a harp- 



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