A HISTORY OF WORCESTERSHIRE 



Ombersley . . . On Hadley Heath Common in levelling two mounds in 1815, 'red 

 earth ' ware and Samian [Allies, p. 106]. 



OvERBURY . . . See Bredon. 



PowiCK .... Two sepulchral urns found 1832 between junction of Upton and 

 Malvern roads; two more found 1833 west of village: coin 

 of Claudius Gothius, coin of Constantine junior [Worcester 

 Museum ; Allies, p. 73]. 



RiBBESFORD . . . Gold coin of Tiberius found in Wyre Forest about 1770, according 

 to Nash (ii..277; followed by Gough, Add. to Camden, ii. 476; 

 Allies, p. 146). I suspect this must be the same as the gold 

 coin of Tiberius (PONTIF MAXIMVS, seated figure with spear 

 and olive = Cohen, 15) said by J. R. Burton, History of Bewdley, 

 p. xlix. (London, 1883), to have been found ' 100 years ago' at 

 Button Oak. But that is over the Shropshire border in the north 

 of the Forest. 



Ripple .... Pottery, stratum of black ashes, at Bow Farm, near the Severn 

 [Allies, pp. 62-68]. For the supposed road see p. 213. 



Severn Stoke . . Coin of Magnentius [Allies, p. 291]. Fibula [Bozward, IVorc. 

 Journal, 1889]. 



SoDDiNGTON-iN- In 1807, when the old mansion of the Blounts was demolished, 

 Mamble there was found below it a pavement of thin bricks and many 



earthenware tubes as if for an aqueduct, and a quarter of a mile 

 away a buried brick-kiln with 10,000 unused bricks in it [Gentle- 

 mans Magazine, 1807, ii. 1 009 ; Allies, p. 147]. But no pot- 

 tery or coins or other Roman objects are recorded ; the bricks 

 and tubes were not seen by any competent authority, and Allies 

 and others are perhaps rash in calling this the remains of a Roman 

 villa. 



Tredington . . At Talton 5 coins, Julian (2), Valentinian I, Flavius Victor, 

 Valentinian III (votis. xxx. mult, xxxx.) found 1861 [J. H. 

 Bloom]. 

 At Newbold-on-Stour, pottery and horns of red deer, found 1838 

 [Way, Catalogue of Gloucester Museum, Archaol. Institute Meeting, 

 i860, p. 12]. 



Upton-on-Severn . Coins, vaguely recorded [Gough, Camden, ii. 47 1 ; hence Allies, 

 p. 60, and others]. ;Stukeley, Itinerarium Curiosum, p. 69, 

 put Ypocessa here, a place named in the list of the Ravenna 

 Geographen. But he had no better reason than that one name 

 begins with Up and the other with Yp. The name Ypocessa 

 itself is probably misspelt, and the situation of the place wholly 

 unknown. 

 A fibula found here is in the Malvern Museum [Catalogue of Archaol. 

 Institute Museum at Worcester, 1862, p. 9 ; private information]. 



Wichenford . . Two coins (Victorinus, Constans) [Allies, p. 149]. 



Worcester . . . Town : p. 203. 



„ near . Coin said to be of Julia, dau. of Augustus [Shrewsbury Chronicle, 



April, 18 15]. 



APPENDIX I : THE WORCESTERSHIRE CAMPS 



I have said nothing in the preceding pages about the earthen camps in Worcestershire. 

 A good deal has been written about these camps, notably by the late Mr. H. H. Lines in the 

 Birmingham and Midland Institute (Archaeological Section), 1877, pp. 11-22, in Berrow's 

 Worcester Journal, October, 1890-January, 1891, and elsewhere, and attempts have been 

 made to connect them with the operations of Ostorius Scapula against Caratacus about a.d. 

 50. But no kind of remains appears ever to have been found such as would justify these and 

 similar speculations, and until remains are found the student of Roman Worcestershire must 

 leave the camps alone. It is however extremely probable that they are for the most part far 

 older than either Caratacus or the Romans. 



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