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 A HISTORY OF NORFOLK Ormesby. . OviNGTON. . OXBURGH. . OXNEAD. . . Peddar's Way. poringland Potter Heigham QuiDENHAM Redenhall. . Reedham. . RiNGSTEAD. . RippON Hall. . RuDHAM (East) , Saham Tony. SCOLE. . sculthorpe. Shadwell. Smallburgh 232, with plans]; the names ' Berstrete ' and ' Holmstrete ' [W. Hudson, How Norwich Grew (Norwich, 1896), p. 15]. These remains may be augmented with some found in the suburbs, Eaton, Heigham, Thorpe, etc. But they are inadequate to prove that Norwich was the site of a Romano-British town, or that permanent and definite occupation marked the spot. The idea that Norwich was ever called Caer Guntum may be dismissed without argument, for that name is a medieval invention. Hoard of small bronze ornaments (swan's head, hand, dog's head and collar, human leg, etc.), said to have been found at Ormesby : now in the Fitch room of Norwich Museum. The date of the objects is open to question. Roughly quadrangular earthwork, levelled in 1 848, called a Roman camp in Archaologia, xxiii. 181 ; Norfolk Archaology^ ii. 404 ; Archaological 'Journal^ xlvi. 342 ; but not at all likely to be such. Whether the pottery found elsewhere in Ovington parish is Roman I do not know Norfolk Archaology, vii. 359]. Coins, including two of Constantine [Blomefield, vi. 168 ; Gough, Add. to Camden, ii. 202, etc.]. There is no reason to put Silver coins of Augustus, Vitellius, Vespasian, Trajan, Hadrian Pertinax (hoard) found in an urn ' in a grove ' in the seventeenth century [Blomefield, vi. 493 ; Gough, Add. to Camden, ii. 193]. Urns (one with a face), sheeps' bones, oyster-shells, coin of Volusi- anus, found on edge of Brampton parish [Sir Thos. Browne]. One wide-mouthed vase of grey ware is in the British Museum. See Brampton, Buxton. See p. 302. Inscribed gold ring : p. 311. Many potsherds and mounds of wood ashes [Archaologia, xxni. 373]. Bronze coin of Pius, found 1723 [Blomefield, vi. 337]. Pottery, at Gaudy Hall Norfolk Archaokgy, iv. 313]. Permanent occupation : p. 298. There is no reason to put Venta Icenorum here. Urn _Norfolk Archaology, iii. 418]. Near Hevingham and Bramp- ton (which see). Alleged hoard of coins. Roman 'flue,' found 1864 _Norfolk Archaology, vii. 349]. Mr. Fox, from private information, thinks it a kiln. Samian and other pottery found 1847 (Samian stamped VXONISO and SILVANI and WIVCC . . ?) [Norfolk Archaology, ii. 403 ; Norwich vol. of Institute, xxix. ; Dawson Turner, MS. 23,043, pp. 76-79; Norwich Museum]. Three uninscribed pigs of lead, found in cutting down Saham wood in 1 81 9: assumed to be Roman _Archcsologia, xxiii. 369; Archaological Journal, xxvi. 37]. The remains may be connected with the villa at Ashill. Coins : paved ford (?) in Waveney river _Norfolk Archaology, iv. 313 ; Archaological fournal, xlvi. 249]. Rubbish pit, containing Samian (lANVARIVS) and other pottery, bones of animals, etc., found 250 yards north-east of Cranmer Hall in 1881 [Fox, Archaological Journal, xlvi. 364]. According to Sir Lawrence Jones, of Cranmer, a smother kiln and pottery were found. Urns, coins [Norwich vol. of Institute, xxviii. Hi.; Dawson Turner, MS. 23,060, p. 63 — 23,061, p. 23]. Two urns figured by Turner are in the British Museum ; they are of a fine black ware, which in texture almost resembles black Wedgwood. The pottery, beads, etc., found here are post-Roman [Dawson Turner, 23,060, pp. 117, 118]. 320
 * Iciani ' here, as some writers have done.