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 A HISTORY OF NORFOLK place. Bronze ornaments are not uncommon, as, for instance, a bronze lamp in the form of a well designed satyr and another in the form of a sandal, both found in the eighteenth century ; a small bronze head, con- jectured to be Geta, found near the rectory (fig. 8) ; a little bronze figure of Bacchus (?), a tiny bronze axe (fig. 9), some curox% Jib u la (fig. 9), a mirror (fig. 10), and part of a pair of scales. A fine gold ring, set with an onyx stone bearing an intaglio of the Genius of Victory, also deserves notice. Pottery, including Samian, mention a broken Samian bowl inscribed priscini... Fig. 8. Small Bronze Bust. abounds ; I ma^ Fig. II. Gold Coin of Nero. 9. Small Bronze Objects. which was found in 1897 inside the enclosure. The earliest coins are a silver one of Augustus and a gold one of Nero (fig. 11), but they commence otherwise with silver and bronze of Vespasian and extend to Gratian, thus covering the whole period of the Roman occupation except its first and last thirty or forty years. An urn with twenty silver coins including a rare one of Otho, a small hoard was found, about 1895 outside the walls near Caister Hall.^ Let me conclude with a curious gold coin found in 1857 on Chapel ' For the bronze objects see Norfolk Archifohgy, iv. 232 ; v. 200, 271 ; vii. 373 ; ix. 363 (of doubtful date) ; Afchceologtcd Journal, x. 373 ; xiv. 176, 288 ; Dawson Turner MS. 23,027, p. 93. Many of the objects are now in the Fitch room of the Norwich Museum, but doubts might possibly be felt as to the genuineness of one or two. The gold ring is mentioned in the Norwich volume of the Archaeological Institute, p. xxix. For the pottery see Norfolk Archrrolog^,y. 200. Much of the so-called Roman pottery found outside Caister, especially that found in the Chapel Hill cemetery, Markshall, appears to be Anglian (Norwich Museum ; Dawson Turner MS. 23,055, p. Ill, and 23,035, p. 127 ; Arch^ologia, xviii. 4.36). The Ordnance Survey marks, however, a Roman coin and stone cist as found there in 1845. I am indebted for the Samian potter's mark cited to the Rev. C. R. Manning. For the coins see Norfolk Archeology, iv. 233, v. 203 ; Archaolo^a, xii. 138. For the hoard Norfolk Arche- ology, xii. 340 : Mrs. Green of Caister Hall has kindly allowed me to see it ; it extends from Tiberius to Faustina junior, and was buried soon after a.d. 180. Blomefield's account of the coins (v. 423) is not very helpful. A terra-cotta lamp from one or the other Caister is noted in the Journal of the British A rchaolo^cal Association, x. 106. 292