A HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 



Adjacent to the road and at right angles to it, part of the foundations of a 

 wall 5 ft. thick came to light, the foundations and lower courses of the wall 

 being of lias, above which was ' stud and mud.' An adjoining roof is in- 

 dicated by flanged and covering tiles of the usual types, and the mud walls 

 were plastered inside and painted in various colours. Smaller buildings on . 

 the site were probably temporary erections of timber. Mediaeval and 

 modern builders, says Mr. Woolley, have carried on their depredations to 

 such an extent, even underground, that reconstruction of the plan must be the 

 merest guess-work. His researches, however, indicate buildings of considerable 

 extent, as his plan shows ; but as to the nature of these structures it is difficult 

 to speak with confidence. The walls which have been unearthed on the west 

 side of the road are indicated on the plan at a. Mr. Woolley has since 

 acquired the adjoining field on the south-east, and a trial digging made by him 

 in the writer's presence in October, 1906, yielded a few fragments of tiles. 



The finds of movable objects made by Mr, Woolley on this site, and 

 now preserved at his residence at South Collingham, are sufficient in themselves 

 to form a small museum. They were mostly obtained from the trenches dug 

 in the field on the east side of the Fosse (see plan). They include coins, 

 fragments of pottery, glass vessels, iron tools, objects in bronze, stone, bone, 

 and horn, and painted wall-plaster. Some of the pottery is illustrated in 

 fig. I. The most noteworthy object is the bronze cheekpiece of a helmet 

 (fig. 2),** ornamented with a design in rehef : a woman standing by a horse 

 and holding the bridle in her left hand, while the right grasps a rope : in 

 the background is another rope, or perhaps cable-pattern encircling the 

 design. A curious deer's horn pick was also found (fig. i, b). 



The coins,*'' with the exception of one Republican denarius of the Valeria 

 gens, the presence of which is doubtless accidental, extend from Domitian 

 (a.d. 81—96) to Gratian (a.p 375—83); they number 136 in all, and are all 

 from single finds. It is interesting to note that the finds of pottery may be 

 dated within the same limits. The earliest varieties belong to the end of the 

 I St century. These include fragments of jars of black ware with 'scored' 

 patterns of intersecting lines of lattice-work, done with a blunt tool, and 

 fragments of smaller jars of a hard brown ware with scale patterns worked in 

 relief*' (see fig. i, c). Rather later are some fragmentary ' face-jars' of grey 

 ware, on the front of which rude human faces are modelled in relief, one with 

 the mark of a trident on the forehead *' (see fig. i, a) ; from similar finds in 

 Germany these may be assigned to the 2nd century. Of later date are jars 

 of polished black ware with indented vertical patterns or ' thumb-markings,' 

 not earlier than the 2nd century, red-glazed bowls with raised leaf-patterns in 

 thick slip, and vessels decorated in red and white paint, belonging to the 3rd 

 or 4th century.'" There is also much Castor (Durobrivian)" ware and other 

 that cannot be confidently dated. 



Among the glazed red wares or terra sigillata, part of a hemispherical 

 bowl with figures, of Form 2,7 (DragendorfF) (see fig. i, c) is interesting as 



°" Arch. Iviii, 573, pi. 55 (exhibited to the Soc. Antiq. in 1903). 

 *' A list of these is given in Thoroton Soc. Trans, x, 7 1 . 



*' In Germany these two varieties are found with coins of the latter part of the ist century, e.g. at Trier, 

 indernach, and Wiesbaden. " Thoroton Soc. Trans, pi. 4, figs. 10-12. 



'"' See op. cit. pi. I, figs. 7, 8, and pi. 2 (wrongly numbered 3). 

 " Cf. Artis, Durobrivae, pi. 53, and specimens in B.M. fi-om Northants. 



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