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 ^vc^aco logical InteUigeucc. EOMAN PEKIOD. Mr. Greville John Chester has forwarded the following notice of Roman remains discovered in Norfolk. " In the parish of Brettenham, co. Nor- folk, about five miles from Thetford, on a farm belonging to Sir William Beauchamp Proctor, Bart., is a sandy field, in which various antiquities are constantly found, particularly after a high wind, which blows the sand from place to place. Among others I saw four or five brass coins of Carau- sius and AUectus, in very good preservation, a first brass Nerva, numerous coins of Constantine, of the family of Constantius, of Crispus, Tetricus, and several representing Romulus and Remus suckled by the wolf. Also a small brass Dalmatius, and a very fine second brass Decentius, reverse ^^ the monogram of Christ, with denarii of S. Severus and Trajan. Besides these coins, which are in the possession of the bailifi" of the tenant of the farm, a large bagful was presented to Sir W. Beauchamp Proctor. In the same field were found three bronze fibulae, two of which are plain, and the other, Avhich is in the form of an equestrian figure, appears to have been enamelled or inlaid. I also saw a bead of a kind of blue glass, and an ancient thimble, which were discovered in the same place. The field in which all these articles were found is close to a river or small stream. I may also mention that I have seen four gold British coins (No. I. in Haw- kins), all found in the county of Norfolk, one of which was thrown up by the sea at low water at Sherringham, near Cromer. At Threxton, near Watton, in Norfolk, where there are the remains of a Roman ? encamp- ment, have been found two British coins, one copper and one silver, a great number of Roman coins, with a beautiful intaglio, on cornelian, of the head of Minerva." KOMAlsrO-BRITISH OR SAXON PERIOD. The remarkable fibula here represented, of the full size, was found at Milton North Field, Berks, in April, 1832, on the breast of a skeleton, resting two feet below the surface, on graNcl. The body was laid due north and south. It measures 2| in. in diameter, and in the general prin- ciples of its construction resembles the cii'cular fibula figured and described in Douglas's Nenia Britannica, plate 10. figg. 6, 7. The base is formed of a thin plate of silver, above which, resting, apparently, on a bed of paste, is a plate of cojjper, to which is aflixed a frame-work of the same metal, giving