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 ROMANO-BRITISH NORFOLK Lynford Lyng. . . Marsham. . Melton Magna Methwold. MrLEHAM. MORLEY St. BoTOLPH Narford. . Newton northwold Norwich Two urns found 1720, more with bones and ashes beneath a paving of flint found 1 735, all about a quarter of a mile south of Lynford Hall on the edge of Buckenham parish (g.v.) [Blomefield, ii. 263 ; Ordnance Survey Map, Ixxxiii. S.W. : the latter marks also urns found 1859]. Blomefield is copied by Hart, Gough, Reynolds, etc. Pottery and a ' First Brass ' (Trajan ?) [Norfolk Archeology, vi. 381]. Urn in Norwich Museum, of black ware (Fox). Other urns, alleged road towards Brampton [Norfolk Archteology, iii. 418]. Hoard found in urn, 1887, on the estate of the Rev. H. E. Lombe : nineteen coins preserved range from Titus to Marcus, denarii ; and the hoard was probably like that noted under Caston [Fox, Archaologkal "Journal, xlvi. 362]. Alleged Roman tiles in church window splays : these require con- firmation [Archaeological Journal, vi. 363]. Dwelling : p. 297. Silver dish : p. 310. Earthwork accepted as Roman [Norfolk Archaology, viii. 12 ; Fox, Archceological Journal, xlvi. 34; G.T.Clark, ibid. 208]. But no Roman remains have ever been found in it, and the earthwork itself has no feature which is necessarily Roman. Hoard of bronze coins (Constantine I., Licinius, etc.), once perhaps in a wooden box [Norfolk Archceology, ii. 397]. ' The Romans appear to have had a station here, many Roman bricks being found by the workmen about the Hall, and Sir Andrew Fountaine showed me a Roman vase of brass dug up in the Hall yard ' [Blomefield, vi. 236 : copied by Gough, Add. to Camden, ii. 201; Reynolds, etc.]. One would like more evidence. Coins, once in possession of Mr. Jones of Sporle. See under Castle- acre. Republican coin (Lucretia) in a Saxon ornament [Archaeological Journal, xiii. 296]. {a) In the extreme north, at St. Augustine's Gate, a bronze lamp found in or before 1760 [Stukeley's Diaries, iii. 31 ; Gough, Add. to Camden, ii. 188]. Stukeley describes the lamp as like a human foot : Gough, who subsequently bought it, as like a sprawling frog ; but they mean the same lamp, (i) In the centre of the town, at the corner of Dove Street and Market Place, several urns, some of them unbroken, ' appear- ing never to have been used, but thrown aside by the potter for some defect ' ; and coins of Claudius II., Aurelian and Diocletian, found in August, 1852, at 10-13 ^^^* '^^^P under Messrs. Chamberlin's warehouse. Mr. Fox calls the urns sepulchral [Norfolk Archceology, iv. 360 ; Harrod's Castles, p. 131, note; local newspapers; two urns now in Norwich Museum]. (f) In the same quarter, in London Street, a large earthen vase, a pan full of earth, iron scoriae and charred wood, and also a second vase, both said to be Roman, found in 1862 in making the foundations of a Mr. Caley's house [Norfolk Archceology, vi. 384]. {d) Near the Cathedral, on the north side, pottery [Raven's Suffolk, p. 27]. {e) In the south, on the east side of Ber Street, pottery found, 1843, said to be Roman [Dawson Turner, MS. 23,038, p. 137]. {f) Alleged ancient roadways : a ' regular and beaten path ' under- neath and older than the Castle mound [Gough, Add. to Camden, ii. 189 ; Norfolk Archceology, xii. 30] ; a cobble road, 12 feet under Wensum Street, descending towards the river [ibid. xii. 31] ; a pile roadway (?) across the Wensum, between Fyebridge Street and Wensum Street [ibid. xiii. 217- 319