ROMANO-BRITISH NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 



which this had been built are still to be seen in the walls of the parish 

 church, where bonding-tiles are worked into the masonry/" 



Coins seem always to have been plentiful on this site, as Camden noted."* 

 In Mr. Ella's time the majority of those found belonged to the Lower Empire, 

 though there were also some of earlier date. Stukeley "° describes some of 

 which that gentleman sent him an account, including a ' consecration-piece ' 

 of Vespasian (sic), with the mole at Ancona on the reverse ; one of Hadrian 

 with seated figure of Britannia ; ^^° coins of Constantine with vrbs roma and 

 the twins, or with constantinopous ; and others of Aurelius and Faustina 



5CAUE 6" = l MILE. 



Fig. 5. — Plan of Site of Segelocum, showing possible indications of Roman Settlement 



(a.d, 161-80), Gallienus (a.d. 253-68), Tetricus (a.d. 268-73), ^^c- 

 torinus (a.d. 265-67), Carausius (a.d. 287-93), Constantine (a.d. 306-37), 

 Constantius, Crispus (a.d, 3 17-26), and AUectus (a.d. 293). He had also 

 seen ' a great many imperial coins between Nero and Gratian ' found in the 

 neighbourhood.^" 



' There are also found,' says Mr. Ella, ' but very rarely, Roman signets 

 of agate and cornelian ; one of the fairest and largest I ever saw was found at 



'" NoU. Daily Guardian, i8 Jan. 1877 ; Arch. Joum. xliii, 14 ; Stevenson, Bygone Notts. 5 ; Bailey, Ann. 

 cf Notts, iv, 386. 



"' See above. ™ Op. cit. 93. 



'" Of these two coins the first is a Trajan, about a.d. 102, the mole being probably the bridge over the 

 Danube (Cohen, Monnaies frappees sous I'Emp. Rom. ii, 73, 542 ; cf. Stevenson, Diet, of Rom. Coins 643) ; for 

 the other see Cohen, op. cit. ii, 121, 197. He also mentions a coin of Trajan with a 'Genius,' i.e. Roma, 

 seated on a trophy, holding a ' Victoriola' (a.d. 104-10 ; Cohen, op. cit. ii, 59, 391), and a coin of Con- 

 stantine II with alemannia devicta (Cohen, op. cit. no. l). 



"' Op. cit. 93 ; Bibl. 'ijpog. of Brit, iii, 1 26 fE ; Family Memoirs (Sartecs Soc), iii, 144 fF; Horsley Brit. 

 Rom. 434 ; Assoc. Arch. Soc. Rep. ix, 168. 



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