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 A HISTORY OF NORFOLK BiCKERSTONB. . BiLLINGFORD. . Brampton. . . Brancaster Brandon Brettenham Brundall. buckenham Burgh next Aylsham Buxton .... Caister-by-Nor- WICH Caister-by- Yar- mouth Caldecot Carbrooke (Great) Carleton St. Peter Alleged Roman bricks (as if a villa near) in south-east angle of ruined church [East Anglian Notes and Queries, i. (1862) 239]. Very doubtful. Alleged road and ' numerous antiquities including urns ' [Norfolk Archisology, iv. 312 ; Archesologia, xxiii. 368]. Very doubtful. On the borders of Buxton parish and near Oxnead park, much pottery, including Samian (CRACVNA F), glass, coin of Faustina in an urn, coins of Postumus and Tetricus, bones and ashes of human bodies. Close by, a kiln, consisting of a floor, 6 feet 9 inches square, of brick earth burnt red and hard on the spot, with 34 holes in it, and below three similar floors, each filled with urns. These were excavated by Sir Thos. Browne [Con- cerning some Urnes found in Brampton Field in 1667, in his 'Posthumous Works'; Blomefield, vi. 430 ; Gough's Camden, ii. 193. Aubrey in his Monumenta Britannica, ii. p. 34 (MS. Bodl. Aubrey 15) has a drawing, which indicates a kiln like that figured by C. R. Smith, Collectanea Antiqua, vii. plate i]. Since then, other excavations have been made in the same place and more urns and bones found, with flint layers protecting the urns [Archisological Journal, iii. 249]. Dawson Turner [MS. 23,026, p. 99] figures a bit of Castor ware and a pit of a Samian pelvis found here, or near, and [MS. 23,053, pp. 193 foil.) some pottery, a bronze lamp and bronze statuettes of Juppiter and (perhaps) Minerva — but the lamp (as the Curator of Norwich Museum tells me) came from Pompeii and the pottery is Greek of the third century B.C. See also Buxton and Oxnead. There may have been a villa or village where these parishes meet. Fourth century fort : p. 304. Vase of thin bronze with holes in it, in the British Museum. Fibula, rings, keys, pottery, many coins (Vespasian, Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Marcus, Sept. Severus, Carausius, Allectus and Con- stantinian, including ' Third Brass ' of Dalmatius and Decentius — some perhaps belonging to a hoard). Blomefield put Combre- tonium here [Blomefield, i. 441 ; Archaological Journal, iv. 252, xxvi. 401 ; Norwich vol. of the Institute, liii. Dwellings : p. 297. Pottery found in making the Norwich and Yarmouth railway [Nor- folk Archeology, iv. 315]. The earthworks mentioned by Harrod are not Roman [ibid. xi. 139]. See Lynford. One or two bits of pottery seem to have been found here, perhaps waifs from the adjoining parish of Buxton [Archisological Journal, iii. 246 ; Dawson Turner, MS. 23,026, p. 151 (urn found 1845)]. Pottery, on the edge of Brampton parish [Browne's Urnhurial, ii., iii; Dawson Turner, MS. 23,026, p. 219]. See Brampton. Castleacre > Probably town : p. 288. > Perhaps village : p. 293. Romano-British burials alleged in Norfolk Archisology xii. 20. Spearheads said to be Roman, really pre-Roman bronze [Journal of the British Archttological Association, vi. 158; Dawson Turner, MS. 23,054, pp. 2, 10]. The little head in metal figured by Dawson Turner [p. 5], a type of young Hercules, may perhaps be comparatively modern work. Hoard of 4 gold coins (Gratian, Maximus, Honorius) and 10 silver (Julian to Arcadius and Honorius) found in 1807 in an urn of dark ware with wavy lines of white [Norwich vol. of the Institute, pp. xxvii., liii. ; Norfolk Archeology, iv. 315]. The imperfectly rectangular earthwork between the church and the ruins of the Saxon and Norman castle has generally been taken to 314