A HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 



25-in. vi, 9 ; V.C.H. Notts, i, 302 ; see also SCROOBY]. For the Roman villa near here see 

 under STYRRUP. 



HAYTON. At Tilne, a hamlet in this parish, Gough records the discovery of 'a Druid amulet of 

 an aqueous transparent colour with yellow streaks, and many Roman seals on cornelians.' 

 Mr. Watkin thinks that the amulet must have been of Roman workmanship, and that this 

 find is identical with one recorded by Laird, who speaks of ' a stylus and several agates and 

 cornelians with inscriptions and engravings,' dug up in this parish [Gough, Camden, ii, 405 ; 

 Arch. Journ. xliii, 36 ; Brayley, Beauties of Engl. and Wales, xii, (i) 309]. 

 HEXGRAVE. See FARNSFIELD. 



HICKLING. A supposed Roman station, 2^ miles from the Fosse [Bailey, Ann. of Notts, iv, 30 ; 

 Thoroton, Hist, of Notts, (ed. Throsby), i, 147; Kelly's Dir., 1904, p. 76 ; Lewis's Topog. 

 Diet, places it on Standard Hill]. In 1777 an urn containing nearly two hundred denarii was 

 turned up by the plough. Among the emperors represented were Vespasian, Domitian, 

 Trajan, and Hadrian, also the two Faustinas (A.D. 70-175), and a few coins of Julius Caesar, 

 Augustus, and Tiberius, once preserved in a local collection, may have come from the same 

 hoard. Throsby describes a coin of Augustus with DIVI F. AVG on obv. and Apollo on rev., 

 with ACT for Actium 6 [Merrey, Remarks on the Coinage of Engl. pp. 6, IOO ; Thoroton, Hist. 

 Notts, (ed. Throsby), i, 147 ; ii, 143, pi. 10, figs. 1-3 ; Reynolds, Iter. Brit. 445]. 

 HOLME PIERREPONT. An ancient cemetery found here in 1842 seems to have been Saxon rather 

 than Roman ; but with the Saxon objects were one or two undoubtedly Roman, viz. a brooch 

 in the form of a spotted quadruped, and part of a thin yellow glass bowl about six inches in 



diameter, with the figure of a bird, and part of an 

 inscription SEMPER (fig. ii) [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. 

 iii, 298 (with figs.); viii, 190; Arch, xxxvii, 471 ; 

 V.C.H. Notts, i, 195]. 



HUCKNALL TORKARD. An ancient burial place found in 

 1870 included thirty-five skeletons in five graves, but 

 no objects found therewith, nor any other indication as 

 to the date of the interment [Proc. Sac. Antiq. (Ser. 2), 



v > 35]- 

 IDLETON. See EATON. 



FIG. ; i. GLASS BOWL FROM HOLME LANGFORD. Dickinson in searching for a station between 

 PIERREPONI Brough and Mickleborough Hill (see AVERHAM), found 



traces of a small encampment, which he assumed 



to be Roman, but on very insufficient evidence. He was evidently led astray by his 

 belief in a bridge at Winthorpe, and supposed road from Brough to Ad Pontem (South- 

 well) [Antiq. in Notts, i, 104, Expl. Obs. 6]. A large tumulus and trenches were visible 

 in 1867 [Wake, Hist, of Collingham, 5]. Roman coins are sometimes found in the parish 

 [ibid. 84]. 



LAXTON. Roman coins have been found, among which was a denarius of Trajan (98-117) [Arch. 

 Journ. xxxviii, 427]. See also EGMANTON. 



LITTLEBOROUGH. The site of Segelocum ; see above, p. 19. 



MANSFIELD. Rooke gives illustrations of a few bronze articles found here or in the neighbourhood ; 

 they include a key which may be Roman (cf. BLIDWORTH, p. 24), a fibula of Roman 2nd- 

 century type (cf. SKEGBY, p. 34), which appeared to have been ornamented with enamel or 

 precious stones, and Bronze Age objects ; the key was found at Berry Hill. Rooke calls 

 them all Roman [Sketch of Sherwood Forest (1799), 25, pi. 4, figs. I, 4-6]. In 1788 coins 

 of Vespasian (A.D. 70-9), Antoninus and M. Aurelius (A.D. 138-80), and Constantine 

 (A.D. 306-37) were in his possession, all found in the town [Arch, ix, 203 ; Thoroton, 

 Hist, of Notts, (ed. Throsby), ii, 312]. 



In 1849 a hoard of between 300 and 400 denarii, many in a fine state of preservation, 

 was discovered on the railway towards Pinxton. They included coins of Augustus, Vespasian, 

 Hadrian, L. Aelius (A.D. 135-8), Antoninus, M. Aurelius, Commodus (A.D. 180-92), Septi- 

 mius Severus (A.D. 193-211), and Geta (A.D. 209-12) [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. v. 160, 

 375 ; Arch. Journ. xliii, 38]. 



Rooke believed that a Roman road ran from Southwell to Mansfield. See also p. 10 

 for a supposed road from here to Warsop (Leeming Lane). 



MANSFIELD WOODHOUSE. The discovery of a villa in this part of Sherwood Forest, where no 

 Roman road or station was supposed to exist, was made by Major Rooke in the spring of 

 1786. His attention was first attracted by some tesserae about an inch square, called by the 



4 There is a silver coin of B.C. 1 z answering to this description ; see Cohen, Monnaies frappees sous 

 Rom. i, 84, 144. 



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