ROMANO-BRITISH NORFOLK 



Fig 5. Building Outside the Walls of Caister. 



to substitute for the wrongly imagined shrine. Only the broken tiles 

 and bricks and pottery which are scattered over the whole area — most 

 abundantly, perhaps, in its west- 

 ern portion — testify to definite 

 Romano-British habitation of 

 some kind. 



Two structures have, how- 

 ever, been discovered in the 

 immediate neighbourhood. In 

 1846 Sir John Boileau excavated 

 the foundations of a small rec- 

 tangular building, distant two or 

 three hundred yards from the 

 north-east corner of the ram- 

 parts (fig. 5). It was found to 

 be a plain rectangular structure, 

 measuring internally 24 by 30 

 feet : its walls were of flint, faced 

 on both sides with flint, and 

 pierced with three apertures 

 placed symmetrically in each of 

 the longer sides. Wall plaster, 

 flooring ' tesseras ' of brick, fragments of Samian and other earthenware, 

 bones of men and animals, tiles, one or two coins and a rude silver ring, 



were discovered in or near the building. 

 Signs of an ancient road were noticed close 

 by, and in 1849 a terra-cotta head of 

 Diana (?) was found near at hand (fig. 6). 

 The building seems to have been wholly 

 isolated from any other structure ; its ex- 

 cavators suggested that it may perhaps have 

 been a tomb. The other structure found 

 outside the ramparts is a kiln, detected in 

 1822 on a hill about a quarter of a mile to 

 the north-west, on the west side of the river. 

 When found, it is said to have contained 

 urns of undoubtedly Roman character, just 

 as they were actually placed for burning 



Fig 6. Terra-cotta Fragment. (fig- j)- Other UmS WerC nOticcd near, but it 



seems uncertain whether they were Roman.' 

 Numerous finds of small objects have been made in and near the 



* For the rectangular structure see Archieological Journal, iv. 72 (with plan) : the objects found in 

 and near it, mostly in possession of Sir F. Boileau, are enumerated by Mr. Fox, Jrchaological Journal, 

 xlvi. 356. For the kiln see Layton in Archieohgia, xxii. 412 (with illustrations) ; Norfolk Archaologj, 

 vi. 155 ; Dawson Turner's Papers, British Museum Add]. MS. 23027, p. 91. The sites are marked 

 in the larger Ordnance Maps — whether correctly, I do not know. For the terra-cotta head see Archieo- 

 lo^cal Journal, vi. 180 (if the same object), x. 274 ; Norfolk Archtsohgy, iv. 232 ; both with plates : it is 

 now in Norwich Museum. 



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