ROMANO-BRITISH NORFOLK 



SOUTHREY 



Stalham . . 

 Stratton (Long), 



SWAFFHAM 



Tasburgh . 



Tharston . 

 Thetford . 



Thorpe Hamlet 



Threxton 



Fig. 33. Brooch from 



SwAFFHAM. 



Roman vessels and coins, i Domitian, i Postumus, I Constantine, 

 1 Urbs Roma [Cambridge Antiquarian Society's Report of May 2, 

 1853]. The British Museum has some fragments from here, 

 and also a small hoard of illegible minims found at Little London 

 on the borders of Southrey and Feltwell. 



Pottery [Dawson Turner, 23,060, pp. 152-155]. 



Urns and 'sepulchral hearth ' (? kiln) found 1773 ; also 'numerous 

 coins and other Roman antiquities' [Evans and Britton, pp. 214 

 foil. ; Hart, p. II; Ordnance Survey, 

 xcvii. N.W.]. 



Oval jewelled fibula, perhaps late Roman 

 work [Norfolk Archaeology, v. 354 ; 

 Archceological 'Journal, xiv. 287]. See 



%• 33- 



Bronze handle of bucket, presented to 

 British Museum by Greville Chester. 

 It seems to be of very late date, and 

 possibly a fifth century import. Com- 

 pare Rygh, Norske Oldsager, fig. 345 = 

 Archaeological "Journal, xxxiv. 247. A 

 somewhat similar piece from Hod Hill is 

 in the British Museum. 



Bronze fibula (Plowright Collection) [Fox, 

 Archaological Journal, xlvi. 364; compare 

 Dawson Turner, MS. 23,060, p. 208]. 



These SwafTham finds seem scattered discoveries. 



Earthwork, 700 yards west of Roman road, pre-Roman [Ordnance 

 Survey, Ixxxvii. S.W.]. Coin of some Antonine emperor found 

 inside the earthwork [Fox, Archtsological Journal, xlvi. 364]. 



'Coins of the lower empire' [Gough, Add. to Camden, ii. 188]. 

 Perhaps error for Thurton. 



Coins, according to Sir Thos. Browne [Urnburial, ch. ii.] from 

 Hadrian to Valens. Coins of Vespasian (silver and copper), 

 Domitian, Trajan, Pius, Faustina, Constantine L, Crispus (aJi 

 copper) are mentioned by Blomefield, ii. 11, 12 ; Thos. Martin, 

 History of Thetford {LonAon, 1779), pp. 12, 13. 



A lamp is said by Dawson Turner, MS. 23,061, pp. 24, 25, to have 

 been found at Thetford in 1827 under the Red Mound, and the 

 lamp he figures is now in Norwich Museum. But the Curator 

 tells me it was brought from Carthage, and presented by Edward 

 Stanley, Bishop of Norwich, and it certainly has the look of a 

 foreign object. 



Thetford has been called Sitomagus by Camden and others, and also 

 Iciani ; but it does not seem to be a Roman site at all : its earth- 

 works are post-Roman. Camden's ' river Sit or Thet ' is a piece 

 of characteristically bad etymologizing. 



Large stones with burnt earth, potsherds, iron and bronze fragments 

 of weapons, etc., a ' Second Brass ' of Nero, a bronze lamp, found 

 in 1862-3 in garden of the Rev. W. Frost — apparently Roman and 

 post-Roman interments mixed [Fox, Archaological Journal, xlvi. 

 365; Norfolk Archaology, vi. 385]. Amphora, charcoal and cal- 

 cined flints from same spot [ibid. vii. 349]. 



Pottery in grounds of Mr. F. Ranson, Mousehold (now in Norwich 

 Museum [ibid. viii. 334]. 



Thorpe Hamlet is an eastern suburb of Norwich ; possibly there 

 was a dwelling in this quarter (compare Heigham). 



Samian and other pottery including pelves and amphoree ; urn found 

 with burnt bones and coin of an Antoninus, found standing on a 

 tiled floor, 4 feet square, in 1857, on edge of Saham Tony parish 

 (Threxton House Coll.) [Fox, Archaological Journal, xlvi. 365]. 

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