A HISTORY OF WARWICKSHIRE 



of this road exists, and no Roman remains have been found at Warwick 

 which would justify any such a road (p. 249). 



6. MISCELLANEOUS : INDEX 



Villages, houses, roads, indicate some form or other of settled 

 occupation. We pass on now to notice scattered finds, coins, potsherds 

 and the like, which we cannot refer to any definite place in the civili- 

 zation of Roman Warwickshire. Some of these finds, probably, are so 

 imperfectly known to us that we fail to catch their significance. Others 

 certainly seem to be due to chance. We shall therefore be content to 

 summarize these in the alphabetical list with which our article concludes 

 without wasting words on what must be idle speculation why or how 

 they came to where they have been found. This list is intended to 

 include all the principal sites on which Roman remains have been found, 

 or thought to be found, in Warwickshire. Such sites as have already 

 been fully described are indicated by references to the pages on which 

 the descriptions occurred. For the rest, the sporadic discoveries just 

 mentioned, I have briefly indicated the nature of the objects found and 

 the chief printed or other authorities for them. 



The items of most interest are perhaps those relating to Birming- 

 ham, Bubbenhall, Eatington, Hartshill, Rugby, Stratford, Warwick and 

 Wolfhamcote. Had the county been better explored it is likely that 

 some, though not all of these, might have claimed a place in the earlier 

 sections of this article. 



I have omitted from this list, and indeed ignored through this article, 

 a large number of earthworks which though often called Roman have 

 no claim whatever to be considered such. 



ALCESTER. Village : see p. 236. 



ALVESTON. See Tiddington. 



ATHERSTONE. Alleged paving of Watling Street : p. 243. 



ATHERSTONE-ON-STOUR. One 'third brass' coin of Constantine the Great [J. H. Bloom]. 



BADEN (BARDEN) HILL. See Stratford-on-Avon. 



BEAUDESERT HILL. Alleged solitary fragment of Roman pottery, found 1807 : age doubtful. 



Near Henley-in-Arden. 



BICKMARSH. Coins of the Constantine period [J. H. Bloom]. 

 BINSWOOD. Coins vaguely mentioned by J. T. Burgess [Proceedings of IVaruilck Field Club, 



1873, p. u]. 



BINTON. Coin of Allectus [J. H. Bloom]. 

 BIRMINGHAM. (i) Coins of Constantine period, found on the north side of Birmingham near 



Holford or Holdford, where the Rycknield Street crossed the Tame. ' Camp ' near the 



crossing, very doubtful [H. S. Pearson, Proceedings of the Birmingham and Midland 



Institute (Archasol. section), 1890, xvi. 36]. 



(2) Roman coins (dates not recorded) found in constructing a sewer at the junction of 

 Dudley Street and Smallbrook Street, south of New Street Station [ibid.]. 



(3) Many coins one a bronze Vespasian, Cohen 457 found June, 1816, by a man 

 digging in a garden near the Jews' Burying Ground [Concise History of Birmingham, 

 printed by Jabet (ed. 5, 1817), p. 18]. As the maps of Hanson, Kempson, etc., show, 

 the Jews' cemetery in 1816 (and till 1823) was near wnat is now tne Worcester Wharf, 

 half way along Granville Street to the east of it. 



(4) Gough [Add. to Camden, ii. 460], Reynolds, Brayley and Britton and others 

 mention a Roman bridge, castle and coins. But this is a mere misreading of a passage 

 in Hutton's History of Birmingham, p. 216, ed. 3. The remains really belong to Derby. 



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