ROMANO-BRITISH BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



engraved with a figure of Jupiter, his right hand extended and his left holding a sceptre, with 

 an eagle at his feet, was found with an early bronze fibula made in one piece, and a plain 

 armilla [Proc. Sac. Antiq. (Ser. 2), ii, 60]. The station of Magiovintum has been placed by the 

 concurrent opinions of antiquaries at Fenny Stratford [Proc. Sac. Antiq. i, 246 ; otherwise, Arch, 

 xxvii, 96], a conclusion which Mr. Pretty of Northampton thinks is confirmed by the dis- 

 covery of numerous Roman coins and other remains in its vicinity, more particularly in certain 

 fields adjoining to and in the neighbourhood of the White Hart Inn ; chief among these were 

 the figure of an eagle discovered on Little Heath, and coins of Severus Alexander (A.D. 222- 

 35) ; two third brass of Gordianus Pius (A.D. 238) ; Postumus (A.D. 258-68) ; Tetricus (A.D. 

 268-73); Valens (A.D. 364-78) ; Claudius Gothicus (A.D. 268-70) [Rtc. of Bucks, v, 154 ; MS. 

 Min. Soc. Antiq. xxv, 126. Inf. supplied by Mr. W. Bradbrook] ; also a bust of Roman 

 workmanship [Arch, xxvii, 96]. ' At Fenny Stratford in a place called the Auld-Fields,' says 

 Lysons, ' foundations of buildings have been found as well as coins' [Hist. Bucks. 483]. The 

 site of the Roman station of Magiovintum has been placed with more probability at Little 

 Brickhill on the Watling Street, a short distance from Fenny Stratford. 



BRILL. Roman coins were discovered 14 December 1758 [MS. Min. Soc. Antiq. viii, 98]. 

 There is a square entrenchment described as a ' Roman Camp ' on Muswell Hill [Bucks. 

 6-in. O.S. xxvi, SE.]. Camden [Brit, ii, 330 (ed. Gough, 1722)] mentions Cold Harbour 



fford 



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PLAN or LITTLE BRICKHILL 



Farm, north-east of Brill, as the site of a Roman town, and he is quoted to this effect by 

 Stukeley, but there seems no evidence to warrant such a statement, and the name does not 

 necessarily imply a Roman connexion [Bucks, i-in. O.S. 237]. 



BUCKINGHAM. Many Roman coins have been dug up in the vicinity of Buckingham ; a coin of 

 Antoninus (A.D. 138-61) in 1819 [Lipscomb, Bucks, ii, 547], and in 1741 a copper coin of 

 Carausius (A.D. 287-93) [MS. Min. Soc. Antiq. iv, 56]. Pottery, coins, implements and 

 ornaments from Grove Hill Farm, discovered in 1875, were also exhibited at the Loan 

 Exhibition, Aylesbury, July 1905, by Mr. T. Gardner [Catalogue of Loan Exhibition]. 



CADMORB END. In 1877 five Roman coins were discovered here, of Titus (A.D. 79-81), Domitian 

 (A.D. 81-96), Trajan (A.D. 98-117), Hadrian (A.D. 117-38), Faustina (A.D. 138-41), re- 

 spectively. They were exhibited in the Loan Exhibition at Aylesbury 1905, by the Rev. R. 

 Bruce Dickson of Stewkley [Catalogue of Loan Exhibition]. 



CASTLE THORPE. In a field called Burtles Hill was found a small black urn containing a pair of 

 armillae and a silver ring, with twenty silver and about twenty-five large brass coins of the 

 Upper Empire, ranging from Nero (A.D. 54-68) to Verus (A.D. 166-70), one being a coin of 

 Antoninus Pius (A.D. 138-61) with Britannia reverse. The coins are now in the possession of 



