A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK 



(2) The base of a flat bowl, with Tasc on it, made at Lezoux. The name appears at 

 Aldborough (Isurium) in Yorkshire as Tascilli ; other specimens found at Colchester and in 

 London have been read as Tascilli. (3) A smaller fragment measured | in. in lower section 

 and I in. in upper section. (4) Part of a two-inch vase ; the potter's name on it was 

 obliterated. (5) Portions of a flat dish, i^ in. across. There were also a large portion of an 

 urn of dark grey ware and a mortarlum in two pieces, besides quantities of smaller fragments 

 [Prac. Suff. Arch. Inst, xiii (i), 25 (1907) ; Ant'tq. xliii, 243-4]. The bronze objects were as 

 follows : One small bronze bodkin with a knob head ; one thick bronze ring with two nicks in 

 it which may have been caused by articles suspended from the ring ; one pair of bronze tweezers, 

 with a circular pattern on the sides and a little loop of bronze wire at the upper end. A more 

 interesting find was a small diamond-shaped bronze locket, with a design of small circles on the 

 cover, and traces of blue enamel on it. The hinge and catch worked well, the under side had 

 four perforations in it, and a square notch on each of the sides showed where a chain may have 

 been passed through it. These lockets were originally thought to be seal cases, but were 

 probably either amulets or perfume cases. There are twenty-nine specimens from different 

 parts of England in the British Museum. Of these one is from Suffolk, but from what 

 precise locality is not known. Six specimens have been discovered in the county and are 

 preserved in different places, two in the Cambridge Museum. Five of them were found 

 at Wangford, Eriswell, Icklingham, Dunwich, and Hazlewood (Aldeburgh) \_Proc. Suff". 

 Arch. Inst, xiii, 2$ et seq.; Antiq. xliii, 243-4 ; N. F. Hele, Notes or Jottings about Alde- 

 burgh, 1870]. 



Helmingham. — Roman remains are said to have been found here, and were reported by the Rev. G. 

 Garden. The account given is not very definite, but the remains of a cemetery seem to have 

 been discovered in a little wood called ' The Wilderness,' adjoining the rectory garden [yourn. 

 Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxi, 267 et seq.]. A large number of skeletons, in very shallow cists, some 

 only 18 in. deep, were found. The spaces between the cists were filled in with calcined earth 

 and charcoal, the graves themselves being cut in the natural yellow clay and flint gravel. In 

 the made earth above were many fragments of Roman pottery and querns, a bronze fibula, and 

 a pair of bronze volsellae, biit in the cists with the bodies only jaw-bones and teeth of animals, 

 chiefly of bos longifrons and of the hog. No traces of clothing, ornaments, or coffins of any 

 kind were discernible. Some of the skeletons showed signs of previous mutilation, such as a 

 severed head, &c. Two had children of five or six years old resting on their right arms. It is 

 said that there were several hundred of these bodies, lying on their backs close together, with 

 feet to the east, in a remarkable state of preservation. The cemetery extended for some 

 distance under the rectory stable and garden to the churchyard \_Illus. Lond. News, 2 July 

 1864 ; 31 March 1866]. A leaden ampulla and fragments of urns and scattered human 

 bones were found in another place [^Proc. Sac. Antiq. (Ser. 2), ii, 420], and in 1844 a gold coin 

 of Vespasian (a.d. 69-79) ^^ discovered [Numis. Chron. vii, 192]. 



A common red pan and a black olla from this site are shown on the chart in Watling Coll. 

 in possession of Miss Nina Layard. 



Herringfleet. — A Roman bronze vessel, with maker's name, quattenvs f., engraved on the 

 handle, was found in July I 742 and presented to Norwich Castle Museum by Col. H. M. 

 Leathes, of Herringfleet Hall [Gent. Mag. 1844, pt. i, 634 ; Suff Illus. (Fitch Coll.), iii ; 

 Arch. Journ. xxxvii, 151 ; xxxviii, 301 ; Proc. Suff. Arch. Inst, iii, 406 et seq. ; Ephemeris 

 Epigraphica, yii, no. 1167 ; Proc. Soc. Antiq. (Ser. 2), xvi, 237 et seq.]. 



Handle of Bronze Vessel from Herringfleet 



Bronze V tastL from HtRRi.vcFLEtT 



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