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full south; and very near its ruins arise some rapid springs of excellent water; 

 and so copious as, when joined in one stream, turns a mill ; from which probably 

 the name of Millington has proceeded. There was also lately discovered a well 

 above a mile e. b. s. from these springs, dug through the solid rock, 26 yards 

 deep, which must have been a Roman work. 



To the south-west there are no ramparts thrown up; but to the east, north- 

 east, and due north, the whole country is full of them. The vales are all 

 guarded by small encampments at their angles ; the vestiges of the barracks, now 

 visible, are called by the country people the camps. These were to prevent any 

 sudden surprise that way. On the hills, from vale to vale, some of which are 

 from 60 to 90 yards deep, and prodigiously steep, are thrown up works, as ram- 

 parts, 12 yards broad, and proportionably high, which join in right angles with 

 the vallies, and serve as a strong barrier everywhere. 



Of a Plica Polonica, By Mr. Joseph Ames, F. R. S. and Seer, of the Soc. 



Antiquar. N° 483, p. 556. 



June the IIA, 1746, in the morning, Mrs. Hannah Coomes, a neat old 

 woman, whose matted hair, or plica polonica, as it is called, Mr. A. showed the 

 Society, came and gave him the following information. 



That she was bom in the hay market, in the parish of Whitechapel, and 

 baptised at Aldgate, in June, l645. Her mother, having such sort of hair, 

 used to comb her's much to prevent it, till sometimes the blood came ; when she 

 was about 1 4 years old, she perceived it to grow thick just about the back part 

 of her head, and at length grew to this matted long substance he now saw it, of 

 109 inches long. She said she had had 4 husbands; the first Nicholas Wood- 

 cock, to whom she was married when about 28 years old, and had 4 children by 

 him ; all died young ; but she observed nothing of their hair growing so. 



Of some Clay Moulds, or Concaves of Ancient Roman Coins, found in Shrop- 

 shire. By Mr. Henry Baker, F. R. S. N" 483, p. 557. 



Four, of the five in his possession, were found in digging sand, at a place 

 called Ryton near Condover, 5 miles from Wroxalter, i. e. Uriconium, in Shrop- 

 shire, about a mile from the Watling-street Road : these are all of the size of a 

 Roman Denarius, and little more than the thickness of our halfpenny. They 

 are made of a smooth pot, or rather brick clay, that seems to have been well 

 cleansed from sand or dirt, and well beaten or kneaded, to render it fit for taking 

 a fair impression. Great numbers of these were found, but for want oi care 

 most of them were broken in pieces. The fifth, which is twice as thick as any 

 of the rest, was found at Wroxalter; the clay it is made of differs but little from 



