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 A HISTORY OF NORFOLK Thurton. Upwell Fen. Walpole St. Andrew Walsingham Walsoken Walton. . Wayford. Wells. . . Welney. . . (Old) Weston. Weybourne Wheatacre WiGHTON. Wood Dalling Wymondham. British and Roman coins, cornelian intaglio of Minerva, fibula, stamped />^/i;«, etc. [^Archaeological 'Journal^ iv. 252 ; 'Journal of the British Archaological Association, iv. 382, vi. 158 ; Dawson Turner, MS. 23,061, 40-44; Evans, Ancient British Coins, 382]. Key [^Proceedings of Soc. of Antiquaries, xii. (1889), 405 ; Archteological Review, iv. 69]. See p. 298. Threxton is 3 miles south of Ashill, near the Peddar's Way. There may have been some sort of habitation here, whether connected with Ashill (p. 295) or not. Coins of Gallienus, Victorinus, Tetricus Quintillus, and others, found 1707 [John Pointer, Britannia Romana (Oxf. 1724), p. 41 ; Blomefield, x. 181 ; Norfolk Archceology, iv. 315]. Presumably a hoard of ' Third Brass.' Hoard in two urns, found 1837, perhaps over the Cambridgeshire border [Gentleman's Magazine, 1838, i. 302]. Alleged aqueduct of 26 earthenware pipes, and Roman bricks, found near the sea bank in a garden, about 1725 [Parish Register of 1732 ; Stukeley's Diaries, iii. 27 ; Gough, Add. to Camden, ii. 199, etc.]. Needs confirmation very much. Roman embank- ment, see Appendix. Reynolds [Itinerarium, p. 469] notes urns here (from Browne), but they are English. Two coins of Constantine I, found close to ' Roman Bank,' now in Wisbech Museum [Cambridge Chronicle, March 2, 1850]. 'Third Brass' of Carus in Saxon ornament [Numismatic Chronicle, 1865 ; Proceedings, p. 9]. In Chapelfield, on high ground overlooking river Ant, many lathe- turned urns of a blue grey ware [Archaologia, xxiii. 373]. Perhaps Roman. Hoard (a peck measure) of bronze coins found in the sand on the shore, Maximian, Constantine I., Constantius, etc. [Norfolk Archaeology, iii. 421]. Inscribed pewter dish found 1864 : p. 310. Other pewter vessels found 1843 : p. 311. Hoard of coins found in 17 18, including Carausius [Stukeley's Diaries, ii. 23 ; William Watson, Hist, of Wisbech, p. 553 ; Skertchley's Fenland, p. 471, etc.]. The coins, or engravings of them, are said to have gone to Trinity College Library in Cambridge ; but I have enquired there in vain, and the statement is, I suppose, an error. Hoard, 300 British, 2 Roman Republican (Antony, Cassia) [Norfolk Archaeology, iv. 357 ; Numismatic Chronicle, xv. (1853), 98]. Between Weybourne and Cley on ' Salthouse Broad,' and at Green- borough Hill close by, pottery of Roman and perhaps other periods, kiln, etc. [Norfolk Archaology, iv. 355, v. 254, vi. 155]. The Ordnance Survey adds pottery at Weybourne Hope [x. N.W.]. No Roman remains seem ever to have been found here [see Nor/ilk Burgh Archaeology, iv. 314 ; Archaologia, xxiii. 364]. The road traced by Robberds [Geological Observations on the Eastern Valleys of Norfolk, p. 23] is imaginary. The bronze ornament assigned here by Dawson Turner [MS. 23,048, p. 36] belongs to Caister- by-Yarmouth. Coins [Blomefield, ix. 206]. Oaken coffin, human bones, Samian (SATINVS) and other pottery ; and above the interment animals' bones, the shank bones of sheep and goats being in bundles [Gentleman s Magazine, 1840, ii. 643 ; Dawson Turner, 23,049, p. 26]. Salmon's conjecture for Sitomagus [Roman Stations in Britain, etc. London, 1726], but no Roman remains here, 322