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 ROMANO-BRITISH NORFOLK 8. INDEX The following is an alphabetical list of the principal places where Roman remains have been found, or supposed, in Norfolk. For the places where vestiges of permanent occupation have been found, it has seemed sufficient to refer to the preceding descriptions ; for the rest, the character of the remains is briefly indicated, and the chief authorities for them named. Alborough. ASHILL. . . Attleborough Baconsthorpe The Roman remains ascribed to this site in Mr. Rye's Index belong to Aldborough (Boroughbridge) in Yorkshire. Villa, curious deposit of pottery in well : p. 295. Disk of burnt clay (3 inches in diam.), inscribed on one side with diagonal lines and the letters S.C.V.R., on the other side with the letters H. IMP...(XP?). Quoted as Roman in the Norwich vol. of the Institute, p. xxviii., and in Ephemeris Epigraphica, iv. p. 208. But probably not Roman. Perhaps villa : p. 297. Hoard : p. 307. Fig. 28. Beachamwell Beeston Regis Bergh Apton. Bessingham Hoard found 1846, in digging sand near the Wellmore plantation : about 50 denarii in a Samian cup stamped SOSIMIM (fig. 28), covered by a Samian saucer. Of 36 coins examined there were : I Republican (Antonia), 5 Vespasian, 2 Domitian, i Nerva, 3 or 4 Trajan, 7 or 8 Hadrian, 7 Pius, 3 Faustina senior, 2 Marcus, I Faustina junior, 3 Verus, I Commodus Caesar. The hoard must have been deposited about a.d. 175 [Norfolk Archeology, vii. 128 ; Numismatic Chronicle, x. (1848) 102 ; 'Journal of the British Archaeological Association, ii. 88]. Pits, cinders, slag refuse, Romano-British potsherds, supposed to be traces of rude ironworkings [Norfolk Archaology, iii. 237 ; Archaological "Journal, xl. 286]. See Weybourne. Both Venta Icenorum and Gariannonum have been located here [Suckling's Suffolk, i. 329, etc.] and Roman occupation asserted [Archaologia, xxiii. 366). But nothing has really been found. There is a Street Farm in the parish [Ordnance Survey, Ixxvi. S.W.]. Pottery and bones found in 1870 in sinking a sandpit, perhaps a burial [Norfolk Archaology, vii. 372 ; Proceedings of the Soc. of Antiquaries, II. v. (1870) 32].