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Fig. 22. Sandhill containing Urns, Felmingham. 



Other, resting on two tiles (fig. 21). The lower urn which was 8 inches 

 high, of a bowl or pot shape and adorned with ring-handles (No. 19), 

 contained a curious collection of about twenty little objects, all with one 

 or two exceptions of bronze. I may mention a small bust of Helioserapis 

 (the Sun and Serapis amal- 

 gamated, No. 1 1), a hel- 

 meted head — perhaps of 

 Minerva (No. 5), a statu- 

 ette 3 inches high of a Lar 

 with his drinking-horn 

 and cup (a common and 

 conventional type, No. 7), 

 a bearded head which I 

 cannot identify (No. 10), 

 some fibula, two bases or 

 stands for statuettes (Nos. 

 15, 16), and the like. A 

 silver coin of Valerianus 

 Cassar, that is, Saloninus 



the son of Gallienus, minted a.d. 253-259, gives some clue to the 

 date of the whole hoard. A coin of Vespasian was found near the 

 hoard but apparently had no connection with it. A year or two later 

 another discovery was made in the same spot — seventeen urns, all rude 

 and mostly of ordinary dark clay, and a rude earthenware ' candlestick ' of 



a common type, all lying 

 together inside a sand 

 heap, in total disorder but 

 for the most part un- 

 broken ; a bronze coin, 

 probably of Septimius 

 Severus, was in one urn, 

 pieces of iron in another, 

 but no bones or ashes or 

 other objects (figs. 22, 23). 

 Those who described the 

 finds when they were 

 made attributed them to 

 the sepulchre of a priest 

 or flamen,but they are nei- 

 ther sepulchral nor have they anything to do with a flamen. The bronze ob- 

 jects are a few household treasures, hidden either by the owner or by some 

 one who had robbed him ; the urns found subsequently seem rather to be a 

 rubbish-heap, and suggest that some sort of habitation may have stood near.^ 



* For the bronze hoard %te Archaological Journal, i. 381, 385 ; Richard Hart, The Antiquities ofNor- 

 folk (Norwich, 1844) pp. iii.-viii., with two plates and fanciful explanations. The head of Helioserapis 

 (wrongly described by Hart as Fortuna Barbata) is figured by Dawson Turner, MS. 23,029, p. 193, 

 and in the Norwich vol. of the Institute, p. jtxvii. The coin is Cohen No. 26. For the later find of 

 urns see Archteohgical Journal, iii. 246, and drawings in Dawson Turner's MS. 23,029, pp. 190 foil. 



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Fig. 23. Pottery from the Sandhill. 



