ROMANO-BRITISH NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 



bearing the name of a German potter reginvs f {Reginus fecity^ incised on the 

 exterior ; he worked at Tabernae Rhenanae (Rheinzabern in the Palatinate) 

 in the 2nd century. There are also fragments of the Gaulish Lezoux ware 

 of the same period, with figure subjects. The following marks of GauHsh 

 potters, mostly of the 2nd century, appear on plain red-glazed bowls'^ : — 



There are also a tragment of a mortarium with cicvr f,°* and an amphora 

 handle stamped n • avr • her • pate,^^ duo Aur{elii) Her{aclae) pate{r) [et 

 filius exjiglinis .?*...' the two Aurelii Heraclae, father and son, from the 

 potteries of (so-and-so).' 



^^2) EAST BRIDGEFORD (mARGIDUNUM 



The Itinerary station of Margidunum,^^ thirteen miles from Vernemetum 

 or Willoughby, and about the same from Crococolana or Brough, was identi- 

 fied first by Horsley with East Bridgeford. Some of his contemporaries (Gale, 

 Stukeley, and Salmon) had been led by the similarity of the name to assign 

 Ad Pontem to this parish. This theory assumes an error of seven miles in 

 the Itinerary, and, as Horsley argued, ' the numbers and distances ought to 

 preponderate.' As noted above, those writers were consequently forced to 

 place Margidunum at Willoughby.''' Additional reasons in support of 

 Horsley are given by Throsby, who urges (i) the existence of an ancient 

 encampment, (2) the name of Burrow given to a field close by, (3) finds of 

 pottery and coins, (4) the distance from Willoughby.'^ 



The village of East Bridgeford is itself about a mile to the north-west of 

 the Fosse, which runs right through the fields where the Roman station once 

 stood, the eastern half of it being in Car Colston parish. They are still 

 known as ' Burrow Fields, or ' Castle Hill Close,' both being familiar names 

 in most of the early accounts of the place,'' The site is marked on the 25-in. 

 Ordnance Survey, sheet xxxix, 15,^°° and a plan of it is given in the article 

 ■on ' Earthworks,' "^ from which it will be seen that the lines of the camp and 

 its defences are still to be clearly traced.^"^ 



" Op. cit. pi. I, fig. 4. ^ Op. cit. p. 70. " Op. cit. pi. 3 (wrongly numbered 2), fig. 7. 



'* Op. cit. pi. 3, fig. 5 ; cf. Corp. Inscr. Lat. vii, 1 33 1, 20 (from Catterick), and xv, 2561 (from the 

 "Monte Testaccio, Rome), both more complete examples. 



^ See p. 5. 



" Horsley, Brit. Rom. 438 ; Gale, Jnton. Iter. Brit. lOl ; Stukeley, I tin. Cur. 105 ; Salmon, New Sun'. 

 i, 294. This theory was again revived by a writer in the Standard, 31 Oct. 1884. See above, p. 5 ff. 



'= Thoroton, Hist, of Notts, i, 148. 



^ E.g. Gough's Camden, ii, 400 (all references to Gough are to the second (1806) edition); Magna Brit. 

 .(1727), iv, 41. 



'™ The 25-in. map marks on the west side 'coins and pottery found ' ; on the east 'human remains 

 found.' Stukeley seems to place Burrow Field on the west side of t.he road. 



"" See y.C.H. Notts. \, 300. 



"' The writer explored them in Oct. 1906, with the Rev. A. du B. Hill, vicar of East Bridgeford, guided 

 hj an old map of the parish kindly lent by Mr. T. M. Blagg, F.S.A., of Newark. 



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