A HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



MISSENDEN, GREAT. Fragments of Roman pottery have been dug up to the south-east of the village 

 [Rec. of Bucks, vi, 297]. 



NASH LEE. At this place is said to be the site of a Roman villa [6-in. O.S. Bucks, xxxiii, SE. 

 par. Ellesborough]. The following extract is given in the Name Book of the original Ordnance 

 Survey of Buckinghamshire, dated 1896-8 : ' No visible remains of this ancient building now 

 exist, but undoubted evidence of its former existence were discovered by the late G. S. Stone, 

 Esq. In the month of September 1858 the foundations of a Roman Villa, together with Roman 

 tiles and pieces of Roman pottery, including the greater portion of two urns and two bronze 

 coins, one on the foundation and the other a short distance off, were discovered by this gentle- 

 man and presented by him to the Bucks. Archaeological Society.' 



OAKLEY. Roman pottery and coins were found in a field on Ixhill Farm, midway between Oakley 

 and Worminghall, also part of a flue-tile. In 1892 excavations were made to remove some 

 large stones which interfered with ploughing, and several cart-loads of stone were dug up and 

 removed, which, it has been suggested, point to the existence of some Roman building here 

 [Journ. of the Berks. Bucks, and Oxon. Assoc. iv, 46]. 



OLNEY. Silver coins were found in the neighbourhood between the Lavendon and Warrington 

 Roads in a field called Ashfurlongs, north of Olney ; three of Gratian (A.D. 375-84) or 

 Gallienus (A.D. 253-68), Victorinus (A.D. 265-7), and Allectus (293-6), respectively, 

 still remain at Olney [jfourn. Brit. Arch. Assoc. iii, 255 ; 25-in. O.S. ii, 16]. In the Journ. 

 of the Berks. Bucks, and Oxon. Assoc. (April 1904, p. 26) are mentioned coins dating from Nero 

 (A.D. 54-68) to Constantino (A.D. 306-37). One fragment of Samian, some gray and black 

 ware, and a bronze figure of Mercury were also found. 



PRINCES RISBOROUGH. ' Coins have been found at Princes Risborough ' [Lysons, Bucks. 483], and 

 others were discovered on Risborough Top, Chiltern Hills, three-quarters of a mile east of 

 Princes Risborough [25-in. O.S. xxxvii, 7]. 



STEEPLE CLAYDON. 'In 1620 an earthen pot full of brass money bearing the stamp, name, and 

 picture, some of Carausius (A.D. 287-93), some of Allectus (293-6) was found under the 

 root of a tree ... by the great pond there in the wood of the worthy knight Sir Thomas 

 Challoner ' [White Kennet, Paroch. Antiq. Bucks, ii, 419]. 



STONE. Many antiquities, probably from a Roman cemetery, have been found here. On the north 

 side of the road, immediately opposite the vicarage, in December 1 87 1, a natural hill of sand was 

 excavated, and what was apparently a Roman kiln, in the shape of a basin, lined with burnt 

 clay, 4 ft. in diameter inside, 2^ ft. in depth, the top i ft. from the surface, therefore whole 

 depth 3^ ft., was found. It was filled with sand, charcoal, and a great quantity of coarse broken 



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