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 A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK (2) The base of a flat bowl, with Tasc on it, made at Lezoux. The name appears at Aldborough (Isurium) in Yorkshire as Tascilli ; other specimens found at Colchester and in London have been read as Tascilli. (3) A smaller fragment measured | in. in lower section and I in. in upper section. (4) Part of a two-inch vase ; the potter's name on it was obliterated. (5) Portions of a flat dish, i^ in. across. There were also a large portion of an urn of dark grey ware and a mortarlum in two pieces, besides quantities of smaller fragments [Prac. Suff. Arch. Inst, xiii (i), 25 (1907) ; Ant'tq. xliii, 243-4]. The bronze objects were as follows : One small bronze bodkin with a knob head ; one thick bronze ring with two nicks in it which may have been caused by articles suspended from the ring ; one pair of bronze tweezers, with a circular pattern on the sides and a little loop of bronze wire at the upper end. A more interesting find was a small diamond-shaped bronze locket, with a design of small circles on the cover, and traces of blue enamel on it. The hinge and catch worked well, the under side had four perforations in it, and a square notch on each of the sides showed where a chain may have been passed through it. These lockets were originally thought to be seal cases, but were probably either amulets or perfume cases. There are twenty-nine specimens from different parts of England in the British Museum. Of these one is from Suffolk, but from what precise locality is not known. Six specimens have been discovered in the county and are preserved in different places, two in the Cambridge Museum. Five of them were found at Wangford, Eriswell, Icklingham, Dunwich, and Hazlewood (Aldeburgh) _Proc. Suff". Arch. Inst, xiii, 2$ et seq.; Antiq. xliii, 243-4 ; N. F. Hele, Notes or Jottings about Alde- burgh, 1870]. Helmingham. — Roman remains are said to have been found here, and were reported by the Rev. G. Garden. The account given is not very definite, but the remains of a cemetery seem to have been discovered in a little wood called ' The Wilderness,' adjoining the rectory garden [yourn. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxi, 267 et seq.]. A large number of skeletons, in very shallow cists, some only 18 in. deep, were found. The spaces between the cists were filled in with calcined earth and charcoal, the graves themselves being cut in the natural yellow clay and flint gravel. In the made earth above were many fragments of Roman pottery and querns, a bronze fibula, and a pair of bronze volsellae, biit in the cists with the bodies only jaw-bones and teeth of animals, chiefly of bos longifrons and of the hog. No traces of clothing, ornaments, or coffins of any kind were discernible. Some of the skeletons showed signs of previous mutilation, such as a severed head, &c. Two had children of five or six years old resting on their right arms. It is said that there were several hundred of these bodies, lying on their backs close together, with feet to the east, in a remarkable state of preservation. The cemetery extended for some distance under the rectory stable and garden to the churchyard _Illus. Lond. News, 2 July 1864 ; 31 March 1866]. A leaden ampulla and fragments of urns and scattered human bones were found in another place [^Proc. Sac. Antiq. (Ser. 2), ii, 420], and in 1844 a gold coin of Vespasian (a.d. 69-79) ^^ discovered [Numis. Chron. vii, 192]. A common red pan and a black olla from this site are shown on the chart in Watling Coll. in possession of Miss Nina Layard. Herringfleet. — A Roman bronze vessel, with maker's name, quattenvs f., engraved on the handle, was found in July I 742 and presented to Norwich Castle Museum by Col. H. M. Leathes, of Herringfleet Hall [Gent. Mag. 1844, pt. i, 634 ; Suff Illus. (Fitch Coll.), iii ; Arch. Journ. xxxvii, 151 ; xxxviii, 301 ; Proc. Suff. Arch. Inst, iii, 406 et seq. ; Ephemeris Epigraphica, yii, no. 1167 ; Proc. Soc. Antiq. (Ser. 2), xvi, 237 et seq.]. Handle of Bronze Vessel from Herringfleet Bronze V tastL from HtRRi.vcFLEtT 308