ROMANO-BRITISH BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



in extreme diameter was discovered in 1890 about 18 in. below the surface of a field at 



Willowbrook, a little to the north of Eton on the way to Slough flnf from Mr 



R. P. L. Booker, M.A., F.S.A.]. 

 FOSCOTT. The following remains from a supposed Roman villa at Foscott were exhibited at the 



Loan Exhibition at Buckingham in 1855, by the Rev. W. Lloyd of Lillingstone. Hypocaust 



tiles, bone spoons, pin, part of bone pipe, a bronze socket, glass and pottery fragments, a piece 



of oak pile, and some glass, also fragments of tessellated pavement [Catalogue of Exhibition, 



Rec. of Bucks, i]. 

 HAVERSHAM. A Roman steelyard weight in form of a woman's head was ploughed up in the parish 



of Haversham near Newport Pagnell [Bucks. N. and Q. (1901), 228; Proc. Soc. Antiq. 



(Ser. 2), v, 13]. Roman 



coins have also been found 



here, one a first brass 



of Marcus Aurelius (A.D. 



l6l-8o) [Journ. Brit. 



Arch. Assoc. ii, 355]. Mr. 



Pretty of Northampton, 



who notes the discovery 



of the coins, adds that it 



is a significant fact that 



the coins found on the 



Buckingham side of the 



River Tove, among which 



those at Haversham are 



included, are generally of 



earlier date than those 



discovered at Cosgrove, 



Old Stratford, and Paulers- 



pury. 

 HEDSOR. The remains of pile 



dwellings were discovered 



here in 1894, but the ob- 

 jects accompanying then 1 , 



e.g. spear heads and the 



bones of animals, point 



to a prc-Roman origin 



[Journ Brit. Arch. Assoc. 



(Ser. 2), v, 267]. Simi- 

 lar dwellings have been 



found at Cookham in 



Berkshire, which is near 



Hedsor ]f.C.H. Berks, i, 



198, 205]. 



HITCH AM. A Roman key, to- 

 gether with Roman coins, 



was found near the pre- 

 sent Bath road \Journ. 



Brit. Arch. Assoc. xxxiii, 



206 ; xlix, 176]. 

 HORWOOD, GREAT, AND WINS- 

 LOW. A silver drinking- 



cup of late Roman work, 



of a common form in pot- 



tery, 



but uncommon in 



silver, height 4* in., great- SAICOPHACU. CONTA.N.NG TH. URN, AT CWNDON 



est width 2^ in., was 



turned up in a field and broken by the ploughshare, so that the fracture revealed other 

 objects, some of which had been bent in order to put them into the cup : two silver 

 spoons, very much bent, having oval bowls decorated with a kind of ribbed or feathery 

 pattern ; one had the inscription VENERIA VIVAS (compare with this a sepulchral inscription 

 to Lady Veneria in the Museum at Caerleon). Altogether five spoons were found on this 

 occasion, and a small pin 2$ in. long, with a flat circular head, closely resembling other 



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