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 A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK fox, and hare ; with these, many shells of a large kind of oyster and of the common snail, and part of a pearl mussel shell. Of metal there were three iron holdfasts, some nails, and an axe-head of Saxon type. The coins discovered were all small brass, and much oxidized, the most important being a Magnia Urbica (a.d. 282-5) and a Carausius (a.d. 286-93) °^ ^" ordinary type. Mr. H. Prigg found a large cemetery near Icklingham, in which the remains were all of urn burial, the urns being of Roman manufacture. Such of the urns as he describes are, however, of Saxon form Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxxvii, 154-5]. In the same cemetery was found in April 188 1 a silver ring set with an intaglio representing a genius holding in one hand a bunch of grapes and in the other two ears of corn [ibid. 214]. There is mention of a leaden Roman coffin with nails about it in a Roman burial-place (possibly the same cemetery) partly explored in 187 1, and of a Roman interment at Mitchell's Hill in Ickling- ham parish _Proc. Suff. Arch. Inst.vi, 56]. On Warren Hill, Icklingham, was found in 1877 a small head of Silenus in high relief, of red ware. It was probably part of horse-trappings or had been worn as an amulet [Antiq. vii, 32 ; Proc. Camb. Antlq. Soc. 1 882]. Four tumuli in a row, with a single one some distance south-east of them, are to be seen in a field less than a quarter of a mile from Bernersfield Farm [O.S. 6 in. xxii, SE.], the site of a villa, and at a bend of the road a short distance farther south some coffins found in 1877, which may be Roman, are noted in the Ordnance maps [O.S. 6 in. xxxii, NE.]. In the museum. Bury St. Edmunds, are a jar of bright red ware 6 in. high, 5^^ in. in diameter, and another of the same ware, given in i860; three vases of red ware, given in 1861 ; a vase of red ware and a black glazed globular urn, i ft. 6 in. high, presented by the Rev. — Gwilt ; a bronze fibula ; bronze tweezers ; a bronze knife-handle, from a Romano-British cemetery at Stone Pit Hill (Acton Coll.), a bow-shaped silver fibula, a gilt fibula, damascened with silver, found with glass vessels in same cemetery. Five different bronze armillae from the same cemetery (Acton Coll.), a roundel of white clear glass with a male bust in relief and N, c in raised letters, another with a galley having two rowers (Warren Coll.), a spindle-whorl in basalt i^ in. in diameter (Tymm Coll.), a bronze knife and chain. In 1867 fragments of a casket of bronze with rosettes and bands of embossed silver were found and presented to the Society of Antiquaries by Mr. (afterwards Sir) John Evans, F.S.A. Proc. Soc. Antiq. iv, 1 30]. In the British Museum are a large pan of black glazed ware ; a small one-handled bottle of red ware ; a bowl or basin of coarse red ware ; half a pair of bronze com- passes ; a flat-headed pin ; a twisted bronze ring ; a boss ; four small keys ; two brooches ; a weight ; eight armillae ; a pedestal ; a bone pin ; an armilla of Kimmeridge shale ; a square pewter dish with circular sinking, and other plates and dishes, all purchased in 1844, and a pewter vase of simple form without handles.

IcKWORTH. — A large pot of Roman coins found here is mentioned by Archdeacon Batteley [Camden, £r;V.(ed. Gough),ii, 81]. Ilketshall St. John. — A billon denarius of Postumus, sen. (a.d. 259-69), was found on a farm in the occupation of Mr. J. O. Wayling East Angl. N. and Q. iii, 90]. Ingham. — A cemetery appears to have been found about the year 1823 or 1825 on land originally heath, close to the Culford boundary towards the south end of the parish. The land sloped upwards in a northerly direction from marshy meadows, through which flowed a stream running from Livermere through Culford to fall into the River Lark. In a field here, lying on the eastern side of a shallow depression bounded by a ditch, was the site of the cemetery. The report of a labourer of the name of Ban ham, who afterwards became parish clerk of Ingham, and who as a young man worked on the Hall Farm, on which this spot was situated, is to the following effect : — He, with other men, one harvest time about the year mentioned, was set, owing to an interruption of the harvest work by wet weather, to dig over the spot in question, and they turned over the surface for the space of 4 rods. A dozen pots were found, and various bottles and other things, which were all delivered to Mr. Worlledge, the then tenant of the farm. No metal seems to have been foimd with the pottery ; only fragments of bone, and patches of dark soil. An urn of red pottery, presumably a cinerary urn, 9^^ in. high, was discovered in 1825, 2 ft. below the ground, together with a patera of so-called Samian ware, on this farm, which may have come from this cemetery. At a later date the upper stone of a quern of pudding stone was dug up ; it was 18 in. in diameter, and showed traces of an iron rim and central point [Proc. Sufi'. Arch. Inst, i, 230 ; vi, 52]. The urn is in the museum, Bury St. Edmunds. Another cemetery was discovered in 1873, when the railway between Bury St. Edmunds and Thetford was in course of construction. The site is in a field called Cow- path Breck, west of the road to Thetford, and between it and the farm road to Bodney Barn. Nineteen interments at least were observed, and the bodies appear to have been buried in coffins, the nails of which were found. Interment no. i (close to the fifth milestone from Bury) was 310