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 ROMANO-BRITISH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Thorpe. — See Longthorpe. Thorpe Achurch. — Coin of Antonia [Morton, p. 532]. Thrapston. — Gold coin of Valentinian [Morton, p. 532 ; Bridges, ii. 269]. Titchmarsh. — Samian and other potsherds, burnt bones, coins; found 1756 [Gentleman's Magazine, 1756, p. 20 ; Morton, p. 532, vaguely mentions coins]. TowcESTER. — Small town : see p. 184. Villa at Foscote : see p. 199. TwYWELL. — Fragment of Samian strainer, like that mentioned p. 186 ; urns of Late Celtic affinity (fig. 36 ; in part pre-Roman) [Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, ix. 91 ; xiv. 172]. Whether certain rubbish holes mentioned in the Gentleman's Magazine, '757> P- 21, are Roman is uncertain. Upton (i). — Silver coin of Sev. Alexander [Northampton Museum]. Near Northampton. Upton (2). — Coin of Constantine I. ; ironworkings of uncertain age [Gibson's Castor, ed. 2, pp. 62, 63]. Near Castor. Wadenhoe. — Coins (i silver Nero) [Morton, p. 532]. The alleged Ostorian fort here seems a pure fiction. Walcot. — See Barnack. Wappenham. — Rough kiln, 20 broken urns in it and charcoal, iron slag (?) ; also a silver bone and bronze brooch (fig. 37) ; found in a gravel pit, in the south-east end of the Home Field, about a quarter of a mile south-east of the church and rectory, by Mr. H. C. Maiden in 1874 [Sir Hy. Dryden's MSS. ; information from Mr. Maiden, who lent me the brooch to be figured]. The brooch is of bronze, faced with base silver (or tin ?) ; the studs are bone, with bronze pins rising through them. A similar brooch was found in St. Matthew's, Ipswich [C. Roach Smith, Collectanea Antiqua, iii. 253, plate xxxvi. fig. i]. A third, made of bronze tinned on the face, with six bone studs and in other respects similar to the other two, was found somewhere in France or Germany, and is now in the British Museum [Bronze Catalogue, No. 2 1 78]. Otherwise I know no instances of this type. The alternation of circular studs and triangles occurs on some '^■i.xon fihulte in a rather different way. Wapplnham. Ipswich. Fig. 37. Brooches. Warkton. — Coin of Nerva [Bridges, ii. 265]. See Weekley. Warkworth. — Silver coins of Gaius and Lucius Caesar and of Nero, ' first brass ' of Lucilla and other coins found sporadically [Beesley's Banbury, pp. 23, 32]. A farm. Black Pits, between the Great Western and London and North-Western railway lines, has a signi- ficant name, but I can learn of no discoveries there, and there are no potsherds or other traces now visible on the surface. Warmington. — Coins mentioned vaguely by Morton, p. 516. Weedon Beck. — Coins, earthwork, foundations, mentioned by Stukeley [Itinerarium, p. 114] and Reynolds [p. 470], but the earthwork and foundations seem to 1 ave no claim to be called Roman. Talbot, Camden [ii. 267] and Morton put Bannaventa here : see p. 186. Weekley. — Villa: see p. 194. Weldon. — Villa : see p. 193. Wellingborough. — Coin at Ladyswell, other coins, pottery [Mr. George, from John Cole's MS. History of Woodford]. Welton. — Coins found in churchyard ; one a silver coin of Barbiana [Morton, p. 532 ; Baker i. 466 ; hence Whellan, p. 441, etc.]. Roman coins in Saxon burials half-a- mile from the church [Archaologia, xlviii. 337]. 7?.