ROMANO-BRITISH SUFFOLK 



shaped ^ia/a 2^ in. long. Here are preserved an arm and a finger bone from one of the skele- 

 tons found by Prof. Henslovy, together with bronze bracelets. The objects added to the 

 museum in 1897 were fragments of vases of Durobrivian, Upchurch, and so-called Samian 

 ware (all plain) ; pieces of a glass vessel, one fragment of window-glass, and small portions of 

 roof and flue tiles. The animal remains consist of fragments of horns of red deer, &c., and 

 there arc some oyster shells. 



In the Norwich Museum (Fitch Coll.) are preserved keys, tags of belts, tweezers, fibulae — 

 two perfect, two in fragments — nails, rings, a small bronze column 3 in. high, a figure of a 

 goat, a head of an animal, two small busts, one perhaps of Mercury, a leaf, a portion of a vase, 

 and fragments of ligulae. All these bronzes appear to be water-worn. 



In the Bury Museum are a small vase with black glaze, presented by the late Lord John 

 Hervey, 1853; needles and bone pins (Acton Coll.); implement in bone, probably a mesh 

 gauge ; jet pins ; a double comb in bone, one button in shale and one in jet. 



In the British Museum are bronze studs found here in a leaden coffin in 1853 > *^* 

 central band of an enamelled buckle ; a bronze toilet implement ; a brooch ; a pin ; beads ; an 

 armlet ; a necklace of glass beads and shell found in a glass urn with bone bracelets in 1853 5 

 glass beads, one being engraved ; a small rude flanged pan of dark drab ware, a pot of grey 

 ware ornamented with groups of dots in slip, a small black vase with glazed bands ; a small pot 

 of rough reddish grey ware ; and a reddish-grey vase with black bands. A vase of so-called 

 Samian ware of oval form has the body ornamented with a wide band and simple marginal 

 lines, this band having vine foliage, amongst which are interspersed figures of stags ; the 

 animals appear to be of slip, and resemble those seen on Durobrivian ware. This vase was 

 given by Sir A. W. Franks in 1881 [For site see O.S. 6-in. xc, NW. and SW.]. 



Fritton. — Half a mile to the north of Fritton Broad, in a small hillock, pieces of pottery are 

 occasionally found [Suckling, Hist. Suff. i, 353]. 



Glemsford. — A first brass coin of Antoninus Pius (a.d. 138-61) was found here [Proc. Bury and 

 Weit Suff. Arch. Inst, i, 235]. 



Grundisburgh. — Here were found a small pan of reddish cream-coloured ware, the top of the 

 neck of a vase with oval mouthpiece, so-called Samian, and an ampulla of buff ware. A 

 flat circular glass bead was discovered in 1848-50 [Davy, Suff. Coll. B.M. MSS. iii, 19178, 

 57]. Two terra-cotta lamps have also been found, and part of a third [Suff. lUus. (Fitch 

 Coll.), ii]. 



Haverhill. — In the summer of 1759, between Withersfield and Haverhill, a cemetery appears to 

 have been discovered. The site of it was in a disused lane, beside the old Roman road from 

 Cambridge to Colchester, near a rivulet under the wood by Haverhill Castle. In digging for 

 gravel at this spot many cartloads of human bones were removed besides complete skeletons. 

 In the same place the earth was black with the ashes of burnt bodies, and several large glass 

 urns had been found. The following is a list of objects found on this spot in the possession of 

 Mr. Barnard, then rector of Withersfield : A large white transparent glass vase, capable of 

 holding 2 gallons, with a ribbed handle and short neck ; a small bottle of transparent white 

 glass, filled with an unctuous substance ; another of the same character ; a round squat vessel 

 of transparent glass ; a small patera of so-called Samian ware standing on a foot, the rim orna- 

 mented with sprigs and leaves (it had a potter's mark which was not recorded) ; another, 

 without a foot, and a portion of a third, of the same ware ; a large urn of whitish ware of 

 coarse texture full of burnt bones ; another of the same ware with handle and straight neck, and 

 a small ordinary lamp of red ware. Besides these there were many pieces of urns and 

 paterae with ashes and partly burnt bones [Coles MS. B.M. MSS. v, 31, fol. 91^, 92, 92^, 

 93 ; MS. Min. Soc. Antiq. xi, 38 (1869)]. No coins were discovered. 



Hawkedon. — An amphora of globular form deprived of neck and handles, within which were two 

 fragments of statuettes of pipeclay, both representing a nude type of the goddess Venus, 

 was found in draining the Glebe Farm [^Proc. Suff. Arch. Inst, vi, 2 pi]. A fragment of one of 

 these statuettes and the amphora are in the Museum, Bury St. Edmunds. 



Hazlewood. — In May 1907 some excavations were made on 'Barber's Point,' a small sandy 

 mound near the River Aide, about 3 miles from Aldeburgh. Finds of rough pottery, oyster 

 shells, and other indications had led to the suggestion that a small settlement of some kind had 

 existed on the spot. No foundations were discovered, but a quantity of fragments of so-called 

 Samian and other ware, some bronze objects, iron nails, and hypocaust tiles were found, as well 

 as one stone spindle-whorl, a horse-shoe, masses of oyster and other shells, bones of animals 

 and birds, charcoal and burnt earth. It is thought possible that there may have been a villa on 

 the common near this site. The so-called Samian ware has been identified by Mr. R. A. 

 Smith, F.S.A., as follows : (i) A small patera, made at La Graufesenque in the is century. 

 The potter's name on it is quintvs in a lozenge. The dish is 5^ in. in diameter, 2 in. high. 



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