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4 ft. 6 in. below surface, in a north and south direction with head to north. Iron nails were 

 found with it and pieces of a globular urn of dark ware. The skull and long bones remained. 

 Twenty yards to the north occurred interment no. 2, at a depth of 5 ft. in the same direction 

 as no. I. There was a skeleton fairly entire, and only nails were found with it. Some yards 

 farther in advance were fragments of n large vase of red ware covered with cream-coloured 

 slip, which had contained calcined human bones. Some way from it lay an urn of red ware, 

 but not of the same kind as the vase.. A group of rubbish pits was found not far off. From 

 these came some animal bones and pieces of pottery, some of coarse ware with a ' stellate pattern 

 in relief.' Interment no. 3 was at the same depth as no. 2. It contained the skeleton of a 

 woman buried in a coffin ; the direction of the grave was east and west. At the head, to the 

 west, was a cup of Durobrivian ware, 6^ in. high. Amongst the bones were more than a dozen 

 horses' teeth. No. 4 was 44 ft. north of no. 3 ; the bones were much decayed, and had 

 nothing with them. No. 5 was 34 ft. farther, on the west edge of the railway cutting. The 

 bones lay in an east and west direction, and were much decayed. With them was a fragment 

 of coarse red ware with two dogs and a boar upon it, perhaps part of a vase of Durobrivian 

 ware. No. 6 was 1 7 ft. farther on the east side of the cutting, where at a depth of 3 ft. 6 in. 

 in a long coffin lay the skeleton of a man well-preserved, the skull perfect, with the head to the 

 north-east. Owing to untoward circumstances this was the last interment carefully observed, 

 but there is a record of twelve more. Nails were seen in some of the graves ; the bones were 

 generally much decayed. The graves appeared to lie across the line of the railway cutting ; 

 that is, they would have been in an east and west direction. Many no doubt were not recorded. 

 The site of the cemetery was not far from Icklingham [ibid, vi, 41 etseq.]. 



Ipswich. — A tall vessel of Castor ware with slip ornament, a globular urn inclosed in a larger 

 urn which was broken, the head of a vase of white ware, 2|^in. across, with a fragment of 

 handle and on the opposite side a female head, the details of head and a rude cross mark 

 being in brown paint, were found on Bolton Farm, Ipswich, in September 1863 [Suff. lUus. 

 (Fitch Coll.), ii]. A globular vessel with large circular incised ornament on it, a vessel 

 with short neck and handle, an urn and another globular vessel with short neck and 

 handle were found in digging the foundations of Paul's Brewery [ibid. iii]. A fihu/a in 

 the form of a bee, and a bronze lamp in the shape of a dog, the head lost, were found 

 near Ipswich in 1883 [Proc. Soc. Antiq. (Ser, 2), 98-9]. Fragments of Roman pottery were 

 found in High Street, and a vase and other pottery from the site of the new Gas Offices in 

 Carr Street \_Proc. Suff. Arch. Inst, vii, 368]. A tetina of brown ware was found in 1862 when 

 the new bank was built [Chart, Watling Coll., in possession of Miss Nina Layard]. In 

 excavations on the site of the Carmelite Convent fragments of pottery at depths ranging 

 from 10 ft. to 23 ft. have been brought up, but although some of these fragments have a 

 certain resemblance to pottery of the Roman period, it is scarcely possible to identify any of 

 them as of that age. Nothing definitely Roman appears to have been found [^Arch. yourn. 

 Ivi, 236]. At Gippeswyk Hall, near Ipswich, some fragments of so-called Samian and other 

 Roman pottery were discovered in February 1897 \^Antiq.xx\\y 17]. In 1902 two large urns 

 of brown ware, wheel-turned and sun-baked, were found in some sand-pits at 'The Dales.' 

 They were standing upright, in a small cave, like a hollow roughly formed in the ground, and 

 were both empty. One pot had a cover, and they were both ornamented, one with moulded 

 bands in relief, the other with incised indentations. The larger, with cover, was 15 in. in 

 height, 1 1 in. in diameter ; the smaller 7 in. in height, 4J in. across the widest part. Pottery 

 has been found in the brickfields on the Norwich road, and at Westerfield, where the railway 

 line crosses the road, several more or less perfect examples have been discovered [Proc. Suff. 

 Arch. Inst, xi, 338 (1901-3)]. In the Museum, Ipswich, is a pot-shaped vase, found in carrying 

 out sewage works in Burlington Road. In the Museum, Bury St. Edmund's, are two bronze 

 /ibu/ae and a chain (Acton Coll.). There is also a bronze chain in the Castle Museum, Norwich 

 (Fitch Coll.). In the British Museum is a bronze vessel found in the garden of Cardinal 

 Wolsey's College, and purchased in 1857. 



IxwoRTH. — A bronze ^bu/a was found here in 1834. It was circular, convex, and set with 

 concentric zigzag circles of enamel. With it at the same time was turned up a silver coin of 

 Septimius Severus (a.d. 193-21 1), and from the same spot a few bronze coins. In 1838 some 

 pieces of pottery were dug up in digging the foundations for the parsonage. In 1846 more 

 pottery was found, part of a glass vessel, the tusk of a boar, and the skull of an ox with the 

 horn cores remaining. In 1834, near the road to Stowlangtoft, about half a mile south of the 

 village, the remains of a chamber with an apsidal end, and with a pillared hypocaust, were 

 discovered in the course of ploughing. Though attention was called to the discovery in 

 the following spring (1835), no further investigation was made until 1849, when the place 

 was cleared for the inspection of members of the Suffolk Institute at a meeting at Ixworth. 



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