A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK 



fox, and hare ; with these, many shells of a large kind of oyster and of the common snail, 

 and part of a pearl mussel shell. Of metal there were three iron holdfasts, some nails, and an 

 axe-head of Saxon type. The coins discovered were all small brass, and much oxidized, the 

 most important being a Magnia Urbica (a.d. 282-5) and a Carausius (a.d. 286-93) °^ ^" 

 ordinary type. 



Mr. H. Prigg found a large cemetery near Icklingham, in which the remains were all 

 of urn burial, the urns being of Roman manufacture. Such of the urns as he describes are, 

 however, of Saxon form \Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxxvii, 154-5]. In the same cemetery was 

 found in April 188 1 a silver ring set with an intaglio representing a genius holding in one 

 hand a bunch of grapes and in the other two ears of corn [ibid. 214]. There is mention 

 of a leaden Roman coffin with nails about it in a Roman burial-place (possibly the same 

 cemetery) partly explored in 187 1, and of a Roman interment at Mitchell's Hill in Ickling- 

 ham parish \_Proc. Suff. Arch. Inst.vi, 56]. On Warren Hill, Icklingham, was found in 1877 

 a small head of Silenus in high relief, of red ware. It was probably part of horse-trappings or 

 had been worn as an amulet [Antiq. vii, 32 ; Proc. Camb. Antlq. Soc. 1 882]. Four tumuli in a 

 row, with a single one some distance south-east of them, are to be seen in a field less than a 

 quarter of a mile from Bernersfield Farm [O.S. 6 in. xxii, SE.], the site of a villa, and at 

 a bend of the road a short distance farther south some coffins found in 1877, which may 

 be Roman, are noted in the Ordnance maps [O.S. 6 in. xxxii, NE.]. In the museum. 

 Bury St. Edmunds, are a jar of bright red ware 6 in. high, 5^^ in. in diameter, and another 

 of the same ware, given in i860; three vases of red ware, given in 1861 ; a vase of 

 red ware and a black glazed globular urn, i ft. 6 in. high, presented by the Rev. — Gwilt ; 

 a bronze fibula ; bronze tweezers ; a bronze knife-handle, from a Romano-British cemetery 

 at Stone Pit Hill (Acton Coll.), a bow-shaped silver fibula, a gilt fibula, damascened with 

 silver, found with glass vessels in same cemetery. Five different bronze armillae from 

 the same cemetery (Acton Coll.), a roundel of white clear glass with a male bust in relief 

 and N, c in raised letters, another with a galley having two rowers (Warren Coll.), a 

 spindle-whorl in basalt i^ in. in diameter (Tymm Coll.), a bronze knife and chain. In 

 1867 fragments of a casket of bronze with rosettes and bands of embossed silver were 

 found and presented to the Society of Antiquaries by Mr. (afterwards Sir) John Evans, F.S.A. 

 \Proc. Soc. Antiq. iv, 1 30]. In the British Museum are a large pan of black glazed ware ; a small 

 one-handled bottle of red ware ; a bowl or basin of coarse red ware ; half a pair of bronze com- 

 passes ; a flat-headed pin ; a twisted bronze ring ; a boss ; four small keys ; two brooches ; a 

 weight ; eight armillae ; a pedestal ; a bone pin ; an armilla of Kimmeridge shale ; a square 

 pewter dish with circular sinking, and other plates and dishes, all purchased in 1844, and a 

 pewter vase of simple form without handles. 



IcKWORTH. — A large pot of Roman coins found here is mentioned by Archdeacon Batteley [Camden, 

 £r;V.(ed. Gough),ii, 81]. 



Ilketshall St. John. — A billon denarius of Postumus, sen. (a.d. 259-69), was found on a farm 

 in the occupation of Mr. J. O. Wayling \East Angl. N. and Q. iii, 90]. 



Ingham. — A cemetery appears to have been found about the year 1823 or 1825 on land originally 

 heath, close to the Culford boundary towards the south end of the parish. The land sloped 

 upwards in a northerly direction from marshy meadows, through which flowed a stream running 

 from Livermere through Culford to fall into the River Lark. In a field here, lying on the 

 eastern side of a shallow depression bounded by a ditch, was the site of the cemetery. The 

 report of a labourer of the name of Ban ham, who afterwards became parish clerk of Ingham, 

 and who as a young man worked on the Hall Farm, on which this spot was situated, is to the 

 following effect : — He, with other men, one harvest time about the year mentioned, was set, 

 owing to an interruption of the harvest work by wet weather, to dig over the spot in question, 

 and they turned over the surface for the space of 4 rods. A dozen pots were found, and various 

 bottles and other things, which were all delivered to Mr. Worlledge, the then tenant of the 

 farm. No metal seems to have been foimd with the pottery ; only fragments of bone, and 

 patches of dark soil. An urn of red pottery, presumably a cinerary urn, 9^^ in. high, was 

 discovered in 1825, 2 ft. below the ground, together with a patera of so-called Samian ware, 

 on this farm, which may have come from this cemetery. At a later date the upper stone of a 

 quern of pudding stone was dug up ; it was 18 in. in diameter, and showed traces of an iron 

 rim and central point [Proc. Sufi'. Arch. Inst, i, 230 ; vi, 52]. The urn is in the museum, Bury 

 St. Edmunds. Another cemetery was discovered in 1873, when the railway between Bury 

 St. Edmunds and Thetford was in course of construction. The site is in a field called Cow- 

 path Breck, west of the road to Thetford, and between it and the farm road to Bodney Barn. 

 Nineteen interments at least were observed, and the bodies appear to have been buried in coffins, 

 the nails of which were found. Interment no. i (close to the fifth milestone from Bury) was 



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