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 A HISTORY OF NORFOLK coltishall. . . Crevke (North). Crownthorpe. . Denver. . . . Dereham (West) Diss DiTCHINGHAM. DowNHAM Heath Drayton Dunham. . . Earsham Easton. Eaton ECCLES. . . . Edingthorpe. Elmham (North) Fibulae, ' Third Brass ' of Constantine, pottery, skull and bones — probably a burial ^Archeeologia, xxii. 422, xxiii. 365 ; Norwich Museum]. A writer in the Archaological Journal, vi. 363, men- tions 'quoinings and herringbone work of Roman-shaped brick,' but this needs confirmation. Two urns with 2,000 ' Second ' and ' Third Brass,' including 36 varieties of Constantines [Gentleman's Magazine, 1799, ii. 922]. There are vague and useless references to Roman remains in South Creyke in Archaologia, xiv. 5, xxiii. 369, perhaps from Sir Thos. Browne. Silver thumb ring, with onyx intaglio of Mercury (?) JJournal of the British Archaological Association, viii. 159, xi. 79]. Fen road : p. 302. Rude bronze statuette of Mars [British Museum]. Bits of Roman pottery, 'handbricks' [British Museum]. Coins near rectory, urn near railway station _Norfolk Archaology, iv. 313]- Coins _Gentleman's Magazine, 1807, ii. 913. Hoard of minims, many hundreds, found 1812, in a small urn on the borders of Ditchingham and Broome parishes [Norfolk Archae- ology, iv. 313, v. 362, vi. 153 ; Archaeological Journal, xxiii. 367]. Three urns and fragments of five or six others lying in a sort of open pan of native brickearth blackened by fire, 3 feet in diameter and 18 inches deep _Norfolk Archaeology, vi. 186, with illustration; Archaological Journal, xx. 179 (Greville Chester, who calls it an interment)]. ' Second Brass ' coin in Norwich Museum. Doubtful traces [Norfolk Archaology, ii. 364, vi. 379]. Pottery and coins found in Great Dunham [Norfolk Archaology, i. 360]. Roman tiles have been suspected in Great Dunham church [Fox]. An enamelled brooch [Norwich vol. of Institute, xlii., xxvii. ; Dawson Turner, MS. 23,029, p. 81] from Little Dunham. See p. 297. Pottery alleged. Saxon earthwork [Norfolk Archaology, iv. 313, vi. 154]. Hoard found December, 1851, in ploughing near the Dog Inn : about 4,000 * Third Brass ' in a rude urn. Of these about 2,300 are in Norwich Museum, including 2 Gallienus, 3 Victorinus, I Tetricus I., 2 Claudius II., i Diocletian, 3 Chlorus, 9 Licin us, 377 Constantine I., 38 Crispus, 347 Constantine junior, I C'on- stans, 229 Constantius II., 9 Helena, 549 Urbs Roma, 571 Con- stantinopolis. Unpublished. At Eaton Nursery, a suburb south-west of Norwich, pottery, in- cluding Samian (fAVIII) pelves and amphora, found before 1 850 [Norfolk Archaology, iv. 352 ; Norwich Museum]. Coins alleged [Archaological Journal, iii. 250]. Burial urns found 1826, ? Roman [Norfolk Archaology, iii. 427]. On the road to East Dereham, a quarter of a mile south of Elmham, a pint and a half of silver coins, including Vespasian, Domitian, Lucilla, Faustina — apparently a hoard of the type noticed at Caston. [Blomefield, ix. 491, who says that a silver ring and a bronze coin of Constantius were found in the hoard : the latter must be an error.] On the same side, further south, at Broomclose and Spong Hill, numerous burial urns, with small objects, tweezers, knives, bodkins, etc., found partly in 171 1 [Le Neve, Philosophical Transactions, xxviii. (No. 337) p. 257 ; Blomefield, ix. 491 ; copied by Gough, Add. to Camden, ii. 202 ; Hart, p. 1 1 ; Archao- logia, xviii. 391, etc]. Some of the copyists add ' Roman coins' to these urns, but this seems to be a confusion with the above- 316