A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



14 (1878), marks the site as 'Ad Fines,' and the 6-in. Map (1896), xiv, S.VV., as a 'camp.' 

 The name ' Ad Fines ' is from the forged Itinerary of Richard of Cirencester ; the name of 

 this station seems to occur neither in the Antonine Itinerary nor in the Hst of the Anonymous 

 Ravennas. For the enamelled bowl, see Proc. Soc. Antiq. (ser. 2), iv, 514, fig. and references 

 there given ; the cup at Maltbek is figured in Memoires de la Soc. des Antiquaires du Nord 

 (1868), 151, plate; at Linhthgow, Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scotland, xix, 46; and Bartlow Hills, 

 Arch, xxvi, 307, pi. xxxv. ; cf. also Bonner Jahrbiicher, xxxviii, 58, and R. Allen, Celtic Art 

 (1904), 137. The site of a house lies about five miles south-west at Standon. See also 

 Westmill. For the supposed Roman milestone between Braughing and Hare Street, see 

 Little Hormead. 



Brent Pelham. — ' Many fragments of vessels, cinerary urns, and a very fine water bottle, with 

 horse-shoes, coins, and other objects,' were found half a mile north or north-west of Chamber- 

 lain's Moat [Andrews, East Herts. Arch. Soc. Trans, iii (i), 58-60] and are now at Brent 

 Pelham Hall. 



Brickendon. — A hoard of rather more than 450 Roman denarii was found in 1894 in digging 

 a flower-bed 10 yds. east of Brickendonbury, i\ miles south of Hertford and a mile west of 

 Ermine Street. They lay on an old surface in a recess cut in the virgin soil, covered with 

 8 in. of made-up ground*— clay and natural soil which is believed to have come from a moat 

 close by. They were for the most part of base metal and of the following dates : 



I Commodus [a.d. 180-93] 144 Severus Alexander [a. d. 222-35] 



1 Pertinax [a.d. 193] 3 Sallustia Barbia Orbiana [a.d. 222—35] 

 33 Septimius Severus [a.d. 193-21 i] 30 Julia Mamaea [a.d. 222-35] 



15 Julia Domna [a.d. 193-211] 19 Maximinus [a.d. 235-8] 



20 Caracalla [a.d. 198-217] I Maximus [a.d. 236-8] 



2 Plautilla [a.d. 202-5] ' Pupienus [a.d. 238] 



8 Geta [a.d. 111-12] 25 Gordian III [a.d. 238-44] 



2 Diadumenianus [a.d. 217-18] 9 Philip I [a.d. 244-9] 



67 Elagabalus [a.d. 218-22] i Philip 11 [a.d. 247-9] 



5 Julia Paula [a.d. 218-22] 2 Trajan Decius [a.d. 249-51] 



2 Aquilia Severa [a.d. 220-2] 2 Herennia Etruscilla [a.d. 249—51] 



15 Julia Soaemias [a.d. 218-22] i Herennius Etruscus [a.d. 250-1] 



23 Julia Maesa [a.d. 218-23] 



Sir John Evans, who describes them, considers that they were therefore buried about 

 250 or 251 A.D. Many hoards of similar date have been found in Britain, and were probably 

 deposited in the troublous period of rebelhon in the middle of the 3rd century. [Account 

 in the Numis. Chron. (ser. 3, 1896), xvi, 191-208 ; Herts. Nat. Hist. Soc. Trans. (1896-8), 

 ix, 169-74. The site is marked on the 6-in. O.S. Map, sheet no. xxxvi, N.E.j. 



Broxbourne. — ^Two pieces of a grey urn were found within 2 ft. of and a piece of an Andernach 

 lava quern beneath a barrow in a plantation adjoining Broxbournebury Park, on the south 

 side of Cock Lane, opposite Hoddesdon Bury. The barrow was opened in 1901 by Sir John 

 Evans and was thought by him to be post-Roman [^Proc. Soc. Antiq. xix, 8]. See also 

 Hoddesdon. 



Caddington. — For the inscribed tessera at Markyate Street, see V.C.H. Beds, ii, 7. 



Caldecote. — See Hinxworth and Ashwell. 



Cheshunt. — The Ordnance Survey (6-in. no. xli, N.E.) marks the western side of a ' Roman 

 camp ' in a field called ' Kilsmore,' to the north of Church Lane and west of the New River. 

 Salmon describes it in 1728 as consisting of a ' high vallum with a deep Fosse ... it seems 

 to have been square or oblong, of which one angle only is left at the north-west, and a part 

 of the west side, the fortification of which is lost in the New River against Church Field.' 

 He refutes the tradition that the origin of the ditch was a channel for the New River, afterwards 

 abandoned for the present line. Stukeley mentions coins of Hadrian (a.d. 117-38), Claudius 

 Gothicus (a.d. 268-70) and Constantine (a.d. 306-37), apparently found in digging gravel 

 for the road. Leman at the end of the i8th century notices ' part of a vallum with its regular 

 fosse, of an oblong figure for an hundred yards . . . which marks the site as originally British, 

 and thence afterwards occupied by the Romans.' Since this date the site has always been 

 held to be Roman on the combined evidence of the earthwork, the name ' Cestrehunt ' and its 

 position on Ermine Street, midway between London and Braughing, but no remains other 

 than coins and a pig of lead have been recorded. The site has never been excavated for 

 scientific purposes, and it is now a reservoir. A hoard of about 280 ' third brass ' coins, 

 Gallienus— Constantine, placed in a blue-grey urn 8 in. high, was found somewhere in the 

 neighbourhood of Cheshunt (the precise site being unknown) about 1904. The urn and 



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