A HISTORY OF NORFOLK 



coltishall . . . 



Creyke (North) . 



Crownthorpe . 



Denver . . . . 



Dereham (West) 

 Diss 



DiTCHINGHAM 



Downham Heath 

 Drayton 

 Dunham . . . 



Earsham 

 Easton . 



Eaton 



Eccles . . . . 

 Edingthorpe . 

 Elmham (North) 



Fibulae, 'Third Brass' of Constantine, pottery, skull and bones — 

 probably a burial [Jnhaohgia, xxii. 422, xxiii. 365 ; Norwich 

 Museum]. A writer in the Arcbaological yournal^ vi. 363, men- 

 tions ' quoinings and herringbone work of Roman-shaped brick,' 

 but this needs confirmation. 



Two urns with 2,000 'Second' and 'Third Brass,' including 36 

 varieties of Constantines \_GentlemarC s Magazine^ I799> ''• 9^2]. 

 There are vague and useless references to Roman remains in 

 South Creyke in Archtsologia, xiv. 5, xxiii. 369, perhaps from Sir 

 Thos. Browne. 



Silver thumb ring, with onyx intaglio of Mercury (?) [Journal of the 

 British Archaological Association, viii. 159, xi. 79]. 



Fen road : p. 302. Rude bronze statuette of Mars [British 

 Museum]. 



Bits of Roman pottery, ' handbricks ' [British Museum]. 



Coins near rectory, urn near railway station \_Norfolk Archaology, 



iv. 313]- 



Coins [^Gentleman's Magazine, 1807, ii. 913. 



Hoard of minims, many hundreds, found 1 8 12, in a small urn on 

 the borders of Ditchingham and Broome parishes [Norfolk Arche- 

 ology, iv. 313, V. 362, vi. 153 ; Archaological Journal, xxn\. 2^']'\. 



Three urns and fragments of five or six others lying in a sort of open 

 pan of native brickearth blackened by fire, 3 feet in diameter and 

 18 inches deep [Norfolk Archceology, vi. 186, with illustration; 

 Archaological Journal, xx. 1 79 (Greville Chester, who calls it an 

 interment)]. 



'Second Brass' coin in Norwich Museum. 



Doubtful traces [Norfolk Archaology, ii. 364, vi. 379]. 



Pottery and coins found in Great Dunham [Norfolk Archaology, 

 i. 360]. Roman tiles have been suspected in Great Dunham 

 church [Fox]. An enamelled brooch [Norwich vol. of Institute, 

 xlii., xxvii. ; Dawson Turner, MS. 23,029, p. 81] from Little 

 Dunham. See p. 297. 



Pottery alleged. Saxon earthwork [Norfolk Archaology, iv. 313, 

 vi. 154]. 



Hoard found December, 1851, in ploughing near the Dog Inn : 

 about 4,000 'Third Brass' in a rude urn. Of these about 2,300 

 are in Norwich Museum, including 2 Gallienus, 3 Victorinus, 

 I Tetricus I., 2 Claudius II., i Diocletian, 3 Chlorus, 9 Licin us, 

 377 Constantine I., 38 Crispus, 347 Constantine junior, i C'on- 

 stans, 229 Constantius II., 9 Helena, 549 Urbs Roma, 571 Con- 

 stantinopolis. Unpublished. 



At Eaton Nursery, a suburb south-west of Norwich, pottery, in- 

 cluding Samian (pAVIIl) pelves and amphora, found before 1 850 

 [Norfolk Archaology, iv. 352 ; Norwich Museum]. 



Coins alleged [Archaological Journal, iii. 250]. 



Burial urns found 1826, i' Roman [Norfolk Archaology, iii. 427]. 



On the road to East Dereham, a quarter of a mile south of Elmham, 

 a pint and a half of silver coins, including Vespasian, Domitian, 

 Lucilla, Faustina — apparently a hoard of the type noticed at Caston. 

 [Blomefield, ix. 491, who says that a silver ring and a bronze 

 coin of Constantius were found in the hoard : the latter must be 

 an error.] 



On the same side, further south, at Broomclose and Spong Hill, 

 numerous burial urns, with small objects, tweezers, knives, 

 bodkins, etc., found partly in 1711 [Le Neve, Philosophical 

 Transactions, xxviii. (No. 337) p. 257 ; Blomefield, ix. 491 ; 

 copied by Gough, Add. to Camden, ii. 202 ; Hart, p. 1 1 ; Archao- 

 logia, xviii. 391, etc]. Some of the copyists add ' Roman coins' 

 to these urns, but this seems to be a confusion with the above- 

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