ROMANO-BRITISH NORFOLK 



Lynford 



Lyng . . . 



Marsham . . 



Melton Magna 



Methwold . 



MrLEHAM . 



MORLEY St. 



BoTOLPH 



Narford . . 



Newton 



northwold 



Norwich 



Two urns found 1720, more with bones and ashes beneath a paving 

 of flint found 1 735, all about a quarter of a mile south of Lynford 

 Hall on the edge of Buckenham parish (g.v.) [Blomefield, ii. 263 ; 

 Ordnance Survey Map, Ixxxiii. S.W. : the latter marks also urns 

 found 1859]. Blomefield is copied by Hart, Gough, Reynolds, etc. 

 Pottery and a ' First Brass ' (Trajan ?) [Norfolk Archeology, vi. 381]. 

 Urn in Norwich Museum, of black ware (Fox). Other urns, 



alleged road towards Brampton [Norfolk Archteology, iii. 418]. 

 Hoard found in urn, 1887, on the estate of the Rev. H. E. Lombe : 

 nineteen coins preserved range from Titus to Marcus, denarii ; 

 and the hoard was probably like that noted under Caston [Fox, 

 Archaologkal "Journal, xlvi. 362]. 

 Alleged Roman tiles in church window splays : these require con- 

 firmation [Archaeological Journal, vi. 363]. 

 Dwelling : p. 297. 

 Silver dish : p. 310. 



Earthwork accepted as Roman [Norfolk Archaology, viii. 12 ; Fox, 



Archceological Journal, xlvi. 34; G.T.Clark, ibid. 208]. But no 



Roman remains have ever been found in it, and the earthwork 



itself has no feature which is necessarily Roman. 



Hoard of bronze coins (Constantine I., Licinius, etc.), once perhaps 



in a wooden box [Norfolk Archceology, ii. 397]. 

 ' The Romans appear to have had a station here, many Roman 

 bricks being found by the workmen about the Hall, and Sir 

 Andrew Fountaine showed me a Roman vase of brass dug up in 

 the Hall yard ' [Blomefield, vi. 236 : copied by Gough, Add. to 

 Camden, ii. 201; Reynolds, etc.]. One would like more evidence. 

 Coins, once in possession of Mr. Jones of Sporle. See under Castle- 

 acre. 

 Republican coin (Lucretia) in a Saxon ornament [Archaeological 



Journal, xiii. 296]. 

 {a) In the extreme north, at St. Augustine's Gate, a bronze lamp 

 found in or before 1760 [Stukeley's Diaries, iii. 31 ; Gough, 

 Add. to Camden, ii. 188]. Stukeley describes the lamp as 

 like a human foot : Gough, who subsequently bought it, as 

 like a sprawling frog ; but they mean the same lamp, 

 (i) In the centre of the town, at the corner of Dove Street and 

 Market Place, several urns, some of them unbroken, ' appear- 

 ing never to have been used, but thrown aside by the potter 

 for some defect ' ; and coins of Claudius II., Aurelian and 

 Diocletian, found in August, 1852, at 10-13 ^^^* '^^^P under 

 Messrs. Chamberlin's warehouse. Mr. Fox calls the urns 

 sepulchral [Norfolk Archceology, iv. 360 ; Harrod's Castles, p. 

 131, note; local newspapers; two urns now in Norwich 

 Museum]. 

 (f) In the same quarter, in London Street, a large earthen vase, a 

 pan full of earth, iron scoriae and charred wood, and also a 

 second vase, both said to be Roman, found in 1862 in making 

 the foundations of a Mr. Caley's house [Norfolk Archceology, 

 vi. 384]. 

 {d) Near the Cathedral, on the north side, pottery [Raven's Suffolk, 



p. 27]. 

 {e) In the south, on the east side of Ber Street, pottery found, 1843, 



said to be Roman [Dawson Turner, MS. 23,038, p. 137]. 

 {f) Alleged ancient roadways : a ' regular and beaten path ' under- 

 neath and older than the Castle mound [Gough, Add. to 

 Camden, ii. 189 ; Norfolk Archceology, xii. 30] ; a cobble 

 road, 12 feet under Wensum Street, descending towards the 

 river [ibid. xii. 31] ; a pile roadway (?) across the Wensum, 

 between Fyebridge Street and Wensum Street [ibid. xiii. 217- 

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