A HISTORY OF NORFOLK 



Ormesby . . 



OviNGTON . . 



OXBURGH . . 



OXNEAD. . . 



Peddar's Way. 

 poringland 

 Potter Heigham 



QuiDENHAM 



Redenhall . . 

 Reedham . . 



RiNGSTEAD . . 



RippON Hall . . 



RuDHAM (East) , 

 Saham Tony . 



SCOLE . . 



sculthorpe . 



Shadwell . 

 Smallburgh 



232, with plans]; the names ' Berstrete ' and ' Holmstrete ' 

 [W. Hudson, How Norwich Grew (Norwich, 1896), p. 15]. 



These remains may be augmented with some found in the suburbs, 

 Eaton, Heigham, Thorpe, etc. But they are inadequate to prove 

 that Norwich was the site of a Romano-British town, or that 

 permanent and definite occupation marked the spot. The idea 

 that Norwich was ever called Caer Guntum may be dismissed 

 without argument, for that name is a medieval invention. 



Hoard of small bronze ornaments (swan's head, hand, dog's head and 

 collar, human leg, etc.), said to have been found at Ormesby : 

 now in the Fitch room of Norwich Museum. The date of the 

 objects is open to question. 



Roughly quadrangular earthwork, levelled in 1 848, called a Roman 

 camp in Archaologia, xxiii. 181 ; Norfolk Archaology^ ii. 404 ; 

 Archaological 'Journal^ xlvi. 342 ; but not at all likely to be such. 

 Whether the pottery found elsewhere in Ovington parish is 

 Roman I do not know \Norfolk Archaology, vii. 359]. 



Coins, including two of Constantine [Blomefield, vi. 168 ; Gough, 

 Add. to Camden, ii. 202, etc.]. There is no reason to put 

 * Iciani ' here, as some writers have done. 



Silver coins of Augustus, Vitellius, Vespasian, Trajan, Hadrian 

 Pertinax (hoard) found in an urn ' in a grove ' in the seventeenth 

 century [Blomefield, vi. 493 ; Gough, Add. to Camden, ii. 193]. 



Urns (one with a face), sheeps' bones, oyster-shells, coin of Volusi- 

 anus, found on edge of Brampton parish [Sir Thos. Browne]. 

 One wide-mouthed vase of grey ware is in the British Museum. 

 See Brampton, Buxton. 



See p. 302. 



Inscribed gold ring : p. 311. 



Many potsherds and mounds of wood ashes [Archaologia, xxni. 373]. 



Bronze coin of Pius, found 1723 [Blomefield, vi. 337]. 



Pottery, at Gaudy Hall \Norfolk Archaokgy, iv. 313]. 



Permanent occupation : p. 298. 



There is no reason to put Venta Icenorum here. 



Urn \_Norfolk Archaology, iii. 418]. Near Hevingham and Bramp- 

 ton (which see). 



Alleged hoard of coins. 



Roman 'flue,' found 1864 \_Norfolk Archaology, vii. 349]. Mr. 

 Fox, from private information, thinks it a kiln. 



Samian and other pottery found 1847 (Samian stamped VXONISO 

 and SILVANI and WIVCC . . ?) [Norfolk Archaology, ii. 403 ; 

 Norwich vol. of Institute, xxix. ; Dawson Turner, MS. 23,043, 

 pp. 76-79; Norwich Museum]. 



Three uninscribed pigs of lead, found in cutting down Saham wood 

 in 1 81 9: assumed to be Roman \_Archcsologia, xxiii. 369; 

 Archaological Journal, xxvi. 37]. 



The remains may be connected with the villa at Ashill. 



Coins : paved ford (?) in Waveney river \_Norfolk Archaology, iv. 313 ; 

 Archaological fournal, xlvi. 249]. 



Rubbish pit, containing Samian (lANVARIVS) and other pottery, 

 bones of animals, etc., found 250 yards north-east of Cranmer 

 Hall in 1881 [Fox, Archaological Journal, xlvi. 364]. According 

 to Sir Lawrence Jones, of Cranmer, a smother kiln and pottery 

 were found. 



Urns, coins [Norwich vol. of Institute, xxviii. Hi.; Dawson Turner, 

 MS. 23,060, p. 63 — 23,061, p. 23]. Two urns figured by 

 Turner are in the British Museum ; they are of a fine black 

 ware, which in texture almost resembles black Wedgwood. 



The pottery, beads, etc., found here are post-Roman [Dawson 

 Turner, 23,060, pp. 117, 118]. 

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