A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK 



depth of I tt. 4 in. The little rectangular chamber appears to have been just large enough to 

 contain the coffin, and was covered by an arch turned with brick. At the head of the tomb 

 was a small addition extending beyond the concrete platform. There was nothing about it 

 to tell for what purpose it had been used. No objects appear to have been found with this 

 interment [Henslow, Account of Roman Antiq. at Rougham near Bury St. Edmunds, 1843; 

 Bury Posty^ The Roman Tumulus, Eastlow Hill, Rougham, opened 4 July 1844'; Proc. 

 Suff. Arch. Inst, iv, 257 et seq.]. Reference is made by Prof. Babington in his introduction to 

 the reprint of these papers [ibid.] as to the state of the barrows in June 187 1. Only two 

 then remained, the large one, and one of the three smaller ones. The large barrow, Eastlow 

 Hill, had an elliptical rather than a circular form and was four times larger than the other. 

 It was 17 ft. high. The tunnel made in 1844 was still open and the tomb within the 

 barrow could still be seen in situ. The roof was for the most part intact, and the bones of the 

 skeleton yet lay within the chamber, although the skull had been removed to the Anatomical 

 Museum at Cambridge, and the leaden coffin to the Fitzwilliam Museum at the same place. 

 The barrow which had contained the cist with the glass urn and much pottery yet existed, 

 showing the trench cut through it. It measured 56 ft. in diameter and was then something 

 less than 5 ft. high. A bronze lamp found in one of the tumuli at Rougham was shown at a 

 meeting of the Suffolk Institute at Thetford 29 September 1849 [Proc. Suff. Arch. Inst, i, 150; 

 Reliq. and Illus. Archit. viii, 127-30 ; O.S. 6 in. xlv, SW.]. A full-sized model of the 

 small chamber found in the second barrow described is to be seen in the museum at Bury St. 

 Edmunds, containing all the antiquities found in it. These were presented to the museum by 

 the owner of the estate, Mr. P. Bennet of Rougham Hall. A number of fragments of plain 

 and figured so-called Samian ware, dug up at Rougham, have lately been deposited in the same 

 museum (1899). 



Santon Downham. — A hoard of British coins was found near Brandon to the south of the Little 

 Ouse, amongst them two second brass {dupondii) of the Emperor Claudius (a.d, 41-54). The 

 probable date of the deposit was from a.d. 50 to 55 [Arch. Journ. xxvii, 92 et seq.; t^um. 

 Chron. (Ser. 2), ix, 319]. See Appendix. 



Snape. — In the British Museum is a pot of pale buff ware ornamented with a chequer of slip dots, 

 found in this parish. In 1862, among Saxon and earlier relics a thumb ring of gold set with 

 an undoubtedly Roman intaglio was found on the common \Proc. Soc. Antiq. (Ser. 2), ii, 1 81], 



SoTTERLEY. — Between Sotterley and Weston an olla of ordinary form was found [Chart, Watling 

 Coll. in possession of Miss Nina Layard]. 



SouTHWOLD. — A middle brass coin of Constantius I (a.d. 305-6) ploughed up here had on the re- 

 verse, memoria FELIX, and there was a hole through it for suspension [Proc. Soc. Antiq. ii, 184]. 



Stanton. — About a quarter of a mile from the village a good many fragments of Roman pottery 

 and some coins were found [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, iv, 72]. 



Stoke Ash. — 'Drawings were exhibited (at a meeting of the Brit. Arch. Assoc. 1868) by Mr. H. 

 Watling, of Roman remains consisting of ollae and other vessels of red and dust-coloured ware 

 found at Stoke Ash. On the handle of an amphora was" stamped enn ivl (Ennius Julianus), 

 and among the so-called Samian ware was a portion of a fine bowl with hunting subjects, 

 bearing the stamp albvci ' [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxiv, 394]. A group of this pottery is 

 figured on one of Mr. Watling's charts of Roman remains in Suffolk [Watling Coll. in posses- 

 sion of Miss Nina Layard] and shows, besides the bowl previously mentioned, a small fragment 

 of figured so-called Samian ware with a rabbit upon it. The stamp on the handle of the amphora 

 is thus given, enniy. There is also a plan of the site where the pottery was found, which 

 shows spots in fields east and west of the main road, and south of an inn called the ' White 

 Horse ' between it and the river. On the east side of the road, which runs due north, sepul- 

 chral urns were discovered, one reversed, the mouth covered by a tile. It is also noted on the 

 chart referred to that the bed of the river contained a great quantity of animal bones and 

 shards of pottery. Some coins were found, amongst them one of Crispus (a.d. 317-26). 

 From Stoke Ash the road (presumably a Roman one) goes north by Scole, Dickleburgh, and 

 Long Stratton, to Caister (Norf.), and it is said by the road-makers that there is a great 

 difference in its character to the north and south of the White Horse Inn [Raven, Hist, of 

 Suff. 25, 30]. 



Stonhams, the. — These parishes (Little Stonham, Earl Stonham, and Stonham Aspall) lie close 

 together on the Roman road through the county from south to north. At Stonham Aspall 

 was found an unguentarium containing traces of unguent [Proc. Suff. Arch. Inst, i, 24]. Dis- 

 coveries are recorded at East (Earl ? ) Stonham, where some of the objects appeared to be 

 British, but Roman cinerary urns were observed, also tiles, fragments of so-called Samian ware, 

 &c. These discoveries are said to have extended over several acres [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. 

 xxiii, 300]. 



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