ROMANO-BRITISH REMAINS AT TRELAN. 269 
where various Roman relics have been found. Mr. Franks adds, 
in the note to Mr. Spence Bate’s paper referred to below, that it 
resembles in several respects the most perfect of the three mirrors 
next to be noticed, viz :— 
4, A bronze mirror, and the handles of two other mirrors, 
found in the Spring of 1863, in a Cemetery, at Stamford Hill, 
near Plymouth, and fully described and figured by Mr. C. Spence 
Bate, F.R.S., in vol. xl of Archeologia, pp. 500-510... The graves, 
which are considered as Romano-British, were dug about four feet 
deep in the soil and slaty rock, and contained, besides the frag- 
ments of mirrors, some bronze fibule, armlets, and other orna- 
ments, with glass and pottery chiefly fragmentary, remains of 
unburnt human bones, and some iron implements, too much de- 
composed to be capable of identification. A solitary Roman coin 
appears to have been subsequently found near the site of the 
Cemetery, but not sufficiently near the graves to justify any con- 
clusion as to their date. The coin is a defaced 2nd brass of Ves: 
pasian, (A.D. 69-79). Ibid, p. 510. 
Mr. Franks adds, in his note, that in 1832 a considerable . 
number of British coins were also found on Mount Batten, near 
the Cemetery ; but the mirrors were probably unconnected with 
them. (See Numismatic Journal, vol. i.) 
I extract, from Mr. Spence Bate’s description of the more 
perfect of the Plymouth mirrors enough to illustrate its strong 
resemblance to that of Trelan, and others :— 
“Tt was found lying flat at the bottom of the eastern extremity 
“of a grave. It was nearly circular in form, rather wide than 
“deep, (pl. xxx, fig. 1). The front or polished surface was placed 
“downwards. The back was ornamented with engraved scroll- 
“work, as may be seen in the plate.—In order to bring out more 
“strongly the design, some portions of the engravings were filled 
“in with numerous short striations, somewhat like basket work. 
“The mirror was surrounded by a narrow border or rim, formed 
‘of a separate piece and folded over the margin.” 
This mirror had no handle remaining; but a second mirror, 
apparently similar, had a handle attached to it (fig. 3) very closely 
resembling the handle of that from Trelan; whilst the striated 
filling up of some of the insterstices of the curves of ornament 
on the back are so like those of the Trelan specimen, that they 
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