A HISTORY OF LEICESTERSHIRE 



forest stone, 'joined with admirable mortar ' ; very narrow, without a parapet of any kind, 



and much overgrown with moss and weeds. Throsby considered that they were undoubtedly 



Roman [Views of Leu. ii, 519-20]. 

 CROXTON KERRIAL. One or two small Roman coins (bronze) were found here with a British 



arrow-head, &c., in a field called 'Egypt' [Leic. Arch. Soc. iii, 423]. 

 EASTON MAGNA. Roman pottery was exhibited to the Leicestershire Archaeological Society in 



1858, which was thought to come from here [Information from Mr. Freer; Leic. Arch. 



Soc. i, 176]. 



EDMONDTHORPE. A great variety of potsherds have been found here, and in the neighbouring 

 villages of Cottesmore and Barrow (Rutland) [Proc. Soc. Antiq. (Ser. 2), xix, 194]. Between the 

 villages of Edmondthorpe and Teign a hoard of Roman coins was found in 1797, in a square 

 hole formed in the rock, 3 ft. below the surface. The coins were of Marcus Antoninus 

 (B.C. 44-30), Trajan (A.D. 98-117), Constantius (A.D. 291-306), Constantine II (A.D. 317-40), 

 Magnentius (A.D. 350-3), Valentinian (A.D. 364-75), Valens (A.D. 364-78), Gratian 

 (A.D. 375-83) [Gent. Mag. 1797, i, 95]. 

 ELMESTHORPE. A stone coffin with a lid was found near the infirmary, Elmesthope, and is now 



in the Leicester Museum [Rep. Com. Leic. Mus.}. 

 GLEN PARVA. Several specimens of pottery, including a small Roman mortarium and part of a 



square flue tile, were found here [Leic. Arch. Soc. iv, 187]. 



GOADBY. A piece of gold, a gold ring, a fibula, and various coins found in a mound in Goadby 



Park were exhibited in the temporary museum at Melton Mowbray in 1865. It is also said 



that numerous coins and human bones have been discovered in the locality [Leic. Arch. Soc. iii, 39]. 



HALLATON. There are two so-called ' camps ' at Hallaton (post, ' Ancient Earthworks '). ' Castle 



Hill Camp,' to the west of the village, is a large conical mound, 630 ft. in circumference at 



the base, 118 ft. in diameter at the top. Evidences of Roman 

 occupation have been found, fragments of cinerary urns and other 

 pottery, crucibles, smelted iron ore, &c., but it has not afforded 

 decided tokens of earlier occupation, though the generally received 

 opinion has been that it was British [Proc. Soc. Antiq. (Ser. 2), 

 vii, 317 ; Leic. Arch. Soc. v, 75]. On the Ordnance Survey map 

 it is marked 'Saxon'; a considerable quantity of pottery and other 

 remains, Danish, Saxon, and Norman, have been found [Leic. Arch. 

 Soc. v. 75 ; Hill, History oj Gartree, 284 ; Leic. and. Rutl. N. and 

 Q- ' I 73] < Excavations were made in 1878 without any very 

 striking results being obtained. No traces of building or building 

 material were discovered, no weapons, coins, or human bones [Proc. 

 Soc. Antiq. (Ser. 2), vii, 316-21]. There is a smaller rectangular 

 camp, about 1,600 ft., to the west of 'Castle Hill,' which measures 

 300 ft. by 220 ft. An uninscribed gold coin of early date was 

 found in 1848, about 500 yds. from the place [ante, ' Early Man' ; 

 Arch. Journ. vi, 403 ; Evans, Anct. Brit. Coins, 75-6]. 



In 1856, on the property of Lord Berners, on a spot where 

 it appears that two ancient roads crossed (indications of these roads 

 can be seen), remains, probably sepulchral, were found. They 

 occupied a space of about 5 ft. by 2 ft. 6 in. There were no 

 indications of a barrow, but they had evidently been inclosed in a 

 wooden cist, and were found encrusted together in a mass, with 

 some bones [Midi. Hist. Coll. ii, 66, 154]. The articles found 

 were : four green glass vessels or lachrymatories, one perfect, the 

 others in fragments ; fragments of a ribbed green glass bowl, and of 

 a long-necked dark blue glass bottle ; several pieces of Samian bowls 

 and paterae of different shapes, without potters' marks, in a much broken condition ; a bronze 

 patella, the only entire vessel found ; portions of a jug with a foliated ornament round the neck; 

 a bronze ladle, and several handles, one representing a youth dancing, and one terminating in a 

 ram's head, like those found at Sheffbrd in Bedfordshire, and at Bartlow and Topesfield in 

 Essex [Arch. Journ. xiii, 409 ; Leic. Arch. Soc. i, 75 ; Brayley, Graphic and Hist. Illustrator, 

 344 ; Arch, xvi, 24]. There are said to be traces of a Roman encampment on an adjacent 

 hill called ' The Ram's Head,' in the parish of Keythorpe [Arch. Journ. xiii, 409]. 

 HICHAM ON THE HILL. A find was made in 1607 on the Watling Street, which passes through 

 Higham ; a large square stone was lifted, and under it lay two or three silver coins of Trajan 

 (A.D. 98-117), with coins and other relics of a later date. Burton suggests that this was 

 an altar stone, dedicated to Trajan' [Burton, Descr. Leic. 131-2; Thompson, Assoc. Arch. 



PATELLA OF BRONZE, FOUND AT 

 HALLATON 



GLASS BOWL, FOUND AT 

 HALLATON 



BRONZE HANDLE, FOUND AT 

 HALLATON 



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