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Mr. F. H. Hughes [Brit. Arch. Assoc. Journ. ii, 352-3 ; Num. Chron. vii, pi. iv.] Bracelets 

 of the pattern illustrated have been found more than once in England, and can be dated with 

 precision. They are of base silver, with the terminals slightly expanded to represent serpents 

 heads, and the hoop engraved with geometrical designs. The serpents' heads may have had 

 som; religious significance [cf. gold specimen from Backworth, Northumberland, Arch. Journ. 



viii, 39]. They were originally in the 

 Bateman Collection, Lomberdale House, 

 Derbyshire, but are now in the Bri- 

 tish Museum. Similar bracelets have 

 been found near Carlswark, Derbyshire 

 [Jewitt, Reliq. viii, 113], at Ham 

 Saltings, Upchurch, Kent, now in the 

 British Museum with part of another 

 from Coldham Common, Cambs. [Payne, 

 Collectanea Cantiana, 74]. The ring 

 which is set with a cornelian intaglio is 

 of a type common about A.D. 200 

 [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. ii, 35 ; Bate- 

 man Coll., Lomberdale House, Catalogue, 

 130-1 ; Reliq. xiii, pi. xviii]. Though 

 a skull and pottery fragments were later 

 ARMILLAE FROM CASTLE THORPE found on the site, this deposit of about 



A.D. 1 70 was evidently a hoard un- 

 connected with any burial. Mr. Pretty of Northampton, who recorded the find, added that 

 there was probably a villa at Calverton End near Castle Thorpe, a fact which he deduced from 

 the discovery of pottery there. Professor Haverfield, however, considers that this is inconclu- 

 sive. Mr. Pretty's additional note on the subject of the Portway Lane in Castle Thorpe 

 drew attention to the fact that the name Port does not imply a Roman origin. 



COLNBROOK. Camden [Brit. 327 (ed. Gough, 1722)] wrongly identifies Colnbrook with the 

 Ponies of Antoninus, because it is at equal distance on both sides from Wallingford and 

 London, and here the Coin is divided into four channels, which, for the convenience of 

 travellers, have as many bridges over them [Reynolds, Iter. Brit. (1848), 340]. 

 CRENDON or LONG CRENDON. In the year 1824 labourers, digging in a field at the north side of 

 the church near a road named the Angle Way, found the remains of a cemetery near the 

 supposed site of the castle of the Giffards. The field which contained these remains is of stone 

 brash, in which each of the urns discovered was embedded separately. The principal objects 

 found were an urn described as of blue clay, unglazed ; a small portion of another urn, of 

 large size, 3 ft. in height, diameter at brim 6 in., with handles 5 in. in circumference, joined 

 to the neck and body of the vessel, which was of coarse yellowish ware, with a reddish tint. 

 It was quite plain, had the marks of the lathe perfect, and appeared to have been coated with 

 varnish. Besides ashes and burnt bones, including those of birds, there were also found seven 

 rings of brass, so much decayed that the stones set in most of them were corroded and de- 

 stroyed. Two of these had portions of wire attached to them and might have been ear 

 pendants. There were also found a number of small urns ; eight paterae of Samian ware, each 

 6J in. in diameter, i in. deep, having a small rim ; one stamped OF. L. Q. VIRIL. ; a small 

 incense pot of the same fabric formed in two half circles, the larger above the smaller, and, 

 intersecting it, with a circular stamp or cipher at the bottom ; a lamp quite perfect and of 

 the same ware ; a small sarcophagus containing three small urns all perfect [Lipscomb, Bucks. 

 i, 212 ; C. R. Smith, Coll. Antiq. iv, 155 ; Letter from G. Lipscomb, Gent. Mag. (1831)]. 

 There was also found at a later date near the site of the former discoveries a pot of small 

 Roman coins, some of Claudius (A.D. 41-54). The greater number were much corroded. It 

 is probable that this group of remains is of Roman date, but a further note of Lipscomb 

 points to the fact that a Saxon interment was made on the site of the Roman one, as some of 

 the remains which he indicates could not have been Roman. He adds: ' Many skeletons 

 were found regularly interred, and near them abundant and satisfactory indications of crema- 

 tion and urn burial ; great quantities of ashes, scoriae and semi-vitrified masses, together with 

 vast numbers of fragments of urns and other vessels, bones of large quadrupeds and of birds 

 promiscuously intermingled.' 

 ELLESBOROUGH. Foundations of buildings [Lysons, Bucks. 483] and Roman coins have been found 



here [Lipscomb, Bucks, ii, 171. Vide Little Kimble]. 



ETON. A Roman vase was discovered in 1863-4, 507 yds. north of Barnes Pool Bridge, a little to 

 the west of the main road from Windsor to Slough. A Roman urn, 21 in. high, and the same 



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