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 ROMANO-BRITISH HEREFORDSHIRE Mr. Hardwick's collection were several bronze finger-rings, one with a glass paste intaglio in imitation of nicolo or onyx, one silver ; several bronze fibulae (one of cross-bow type), a spur, and other fragments, and a knife- handle in the form of a greyhound (Fig. 3) ; specimens of glass, one thought to have been used in a window ; glass and jet beads, bone pins, &c." Besides these are mentioned scoriae of metal, molten lead, and burnt wood ; stone querns in good con- dition, measuring 12 to 18 in. in diameter ; pieces of Gaulish and other pottery ; a stone wall- lamp of rhomboid shape ; and a small stone coffin, measuring 4 ft. 6 in. in length, and 9 to 2 1 in. across ; all exhibited by Miss Mary Walker in 1857." The Hereford Museum contains, be- sides the querns above mentioned, brooches and other small objects from Mr. Whiting and Mrs. Key, a fibula, pottery, and ' a Roman brick from the Wye,' all from this site." The pottery in the museum includes fragments of Gaulish ware from Lezoux with figures, one fragment stamped adv[ocisi], another [do]iicci. There are also frag- ments of ist-century Gaulish ware, one with the stamp ervs, miscellaneous plain pottery, and lamps, bequeathed by Prebendary Webb (Fig. 10). In private possession at Hereford are silver coins of Geta and Con- stantine and numerous copper coins, a glass paste engraved with a head of a bald bearded man, a gem engraved with a Lar, and a bronze ring engraved with a bird or griffin. Mr. H. T. Timmins of Birmingham has a gold ring from this site, and Mrs. Glinn of Hereford a fibula, two beads, and a clay lamp formerly in the possession of Mr. W. Johnson. In the parish church of Kenchester a portion of a Roman column, hollowed out, still serves as the font." For the Roman altar probably from this site, see Topographical Index, s.v. Hereford. Fig. 7. — Bronze Figures, Kenchester (2) Leintwardine (Bravinium) This village lies on the line of the road commonly known as Watling Street, leading from Wroxeter to Caerleon.^ In its centre, just to the west of Watling Street, may be traced the outline of a rectangular camp (see " Wright, op. cit. 37 ; Celt, Roman, and Saxon (6th ed.), 410 ; Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, iv, 285, with plate ; Arch. Journ. loc. cit. The knife-handle is in the Hereford Museum, with other less important objects. " Arch. Journ. xiv, 83. " See generally on finds from this site, Woolhofe Club Trans. 1 882, pp. 245, 248 ; Wright, Wanderings, 38 ; Duncumb-Cooke, Hist. ofHerefs. iv, II 3 ; Antiq. xxvi, 246 ; Murray's Guide to Heref. (1884), 310. ''^ Woolhope Club Trans. 1882, p. 248; Murray's Guide, 310; cf. the fonts at Wroxeter, Salop, and Market Overton, Rutland. ' V.C.H. Wore., 204 ; see above, p. 172. ^83