A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK 



the side of the excavation, and the baking floor constructed. The pottery found about kiln 

 no. I consisted principally of pieces of globular vessels with one handle, the vessels capable of 

 holding from one pint to two quarts. They were rather fine ware, ruddy in hue. With 

 them were some remains of little bowls of light red ware with machine-made markings, and 

 some few other fragments. The pottery found about kiln no. 2, which had been used 

 occasionally as a smother-kiln, was somewhat more varied. Fragments of urns resembling 

 some kind of cinerary urns, some small jars of black ware ornamented with burnished lines as 

 a diaper, a fragment of a jar with broad bands of dots in slip, and also pieces of a ware showing 

 a micaceous glaze, lay about this kiln. On a spot about half a mile from the kilns to the 

 east, and near the river (Lark), were a series of basin-shaped pits. It is possible that these pits 

 were made by the potters in obtaining clay. Skeletons were discovered in digging for sand 

 in an elevation of the land dividing the heath of West Stow from meadows by the river not 

 far from the kilns described. By the right side of one of these, which lay north and south, 

 was a patera of black ware placed edgeways. It had a potter's mark in a label, apparently an 

 N between two dots, and from the disturbed soil near was turned up part of the rim of a 

 mortarium with the stamp abicof with the lettering reversed. The potter's works were 

 only half a mile from the supposed Roman station at Icklingham \^ourn. Brit. Arch. Assoc. 

 xxxvii, 152 et seq.]. More kilns were discovered on the same site on West Stow Heath in 

 and previous to 1S90. The fragments found about the fifth kiln consisted of portions of a 

 shallow bowl in fine grey pottery, bowls of buff and brown ware, the rims ornamented with 

 patterns in slip of various colours, parts of two smaller and deeper bowls of fine light red pottery 

 with circles and lines in darker slip upon them. Also ampullae of large size in buff-coloured 

 ware. In the kiln were found two coins, small brass of Constantius I (a.d. 305-6) [ibid. Ixvii, 

 94]. A vase of buff ware 5^ in. high, now in the Bury Museum, was found here, and also a 

 bronze brooch now in the British Museum. 



Stowlangtoft. — In a field half a mile below the church 'was found in 1764 a pot full of Roman 

 coins of the Lower Empire ' said to number 12,420 [Camden, Brit. (ed. Gough), ii, 81 ; Royal 

 Soc. Letters and Papers, Decade iii, 294]. Roman coins were found near 'Barber's Lane' 

 [O.S. 6-in. xxxiv, SE.]. 



Stowmarket. — A coin of the Emperor Trajan (a.d. 98-117) was found here [Proc. Suff". Arch. 

 Inst, ii, 214]. 



Stratford St. Andrew. — A small urn was found here [Chart, Watling Coll., in possession of 

 Miss Nina Layard]. 



Stratford St. Mary. — In this parish in 1877 was found a ridge of hard ground, apparently 

 traces of a road, near which several cinerary urns were dug up. All were brjken. 

 Fragments of one are in the Colchester Museum [Arch. Joum. xxxv, 82]. Between Stratford 

 and Sproughton a wide-mouthed urn of brown ware was found [Chart, Watling Coll., in posses- 

 sion of Miss Nina Layard]. 



SuDBOURNE. — A small two-handled vase, between 2 in. and 3 in. high, of buff ware, now in the 

 British Museurti, was found here. 



Sudbury. — Three vases were found in 1848 ; one of red ware with a very small spout (a tetina\ 

 one globular with broad neck and one handle, of grey ware, and an olla of buff ware [Davy, 

 Suff. Coll. B.M. MSS. i, 19176 ; Suff. Illus. (Fitch Coll.), xxvi]. They are stated to have 

 formed part of the collection of Mr. E. Acton, Grundisburgh. Roman coins were found in 

 the neighbourhood [^Proc. Suff. Arch. Inst, i, 221 et seq.]. 



Sutton. — Labourers in digging for coprolites (in 1870 ?) found a vessel which is said to have 

 contained nearly a bushel of Roman coins, belonging to the period of Constantine I (a.d. 307— 

 37) and for the most part of ordinary types \_Arck. Journ. xxviii, 34 et seq.]. A further mention 

 of this discovery states that a hoard of coins, third brass, in a hand-made dark brown pot, now 

 in the Colchester Museum, was found here [Note on drawing in Chart, Watling Coll., in 

 possession of Miss Nina Layard]. The following probably also refers to this find : — Close to 

 Sutton Hall, ' Two urns containing Roman copper coins found 1870.' [O.S. 6-in. Ixxvii, SW.]. 



Tattingstone. — A globular urn of red ware covered with a buff slip and a smaller bottle-shaped 

 vessel of buff ware, now in the Ipswich Museum, came from this place. 



Thorington. — In digging the foundations for a cart-shed to a new farm-house on Colonel Bence's 

 property in this parish in 1824-5, six or seven Roman urns, much broken, were found [Davy 

 Suff. Coll. B.M. MSS. vi, 19082, fol. 359]. 



Thurlow, Great. — In 1891 a Roman refuse pit was found, containing the usual pottery and 

 household debris. The pit was only remarkable for the quantity and variety of so-called 

 Samian ware found. It was not of the best class of paste, being somewhat soft and porous, 

 but the exterior was good and the ornamentation elaborate. The only potter's mark that could 

 be deciphered was of albi. There were also many large rusty nails, oyster shells, bones, 



