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 ROMANO-BRITISH SUFFOLK 4 ft. 6 in. below surface, in a north and south direction with head to north. Iron nails were found with it and pieces of a globular urn of dark ware. The skull and long bones remained. Twenty yards to the north occurred interment no. 2, at a depth of 5 ft. in the same direction as no. I. There was a skeleton fairly entire, and only nails were found with it. Some yards farther in advance were fragments of n large vase of red ware covered with cream-coloured slip, which had contained calcined human bones. Some way from it lay an urn of red ware, but not of the same kind as the vase.. A group of rubbish pits was found not far off. From these came some animal bones and pieces of pottery, some of coarse ware with a ' stellate pattern in relief.' Interment no. 3 was at the same depth as no. 2. It contained the skeleton of a woman buried in a coffin ; the direction of the grave was east and west. At the head, to the west, was a cup of Durobrivian ware, 6^ in. high. Amongst the bones were more than a dozen horses' teeth. No. 4 was 44 ft. north of no. 3 ; the bones were much decayed, and had nothing with them. No. 5 was 34 ft. farther, on the west edge of the railway cutting. The bones lay in an east and west direction, and were much decayed. With them was a fragment of coarse red ware with two dogs and a boar upon it, perhaps part of a vase of Durobrivian ware. No. 6 was 1 7 ft. farther on the east side of the cutting, where at a depth of 3 ft. 6 in. in a long coffin lay the skeleton of a man well-preserved, the skull perfect, with the head to the north-east. Owing to untoward circumstances this was the last interment carefully observed, but there is a record of twelve more. Nails were seen in some of the graves ; the bones were generally much decayed. The graves appeared to lie across the line of the railway cutting ; that is, they would have been in an east and west direction. Many no doubt were not recorded. The site of the cemetery was not far from Icklingham [ibid, vi, 41 etseq.]. Ipswich. — A tall vessel of Castor ware with slip ornament, a globular urn inclosed in a larger urn which was broken, the head of a vase of white ware, 2|^in. across, with a fragment of handle and on the opposite side a female head, the details of head and a rude cross mark being in brown paint, were found on Bolton Farm, Ipswich, in September 1863 [Suff. lUus. (Fitch Coll.), ii]. A globular vessel with large circular incised ornament on it, a vessel with short neck and handle, an urn and another globular vessel with short neck and handle were found in digging the foundations of Paul's Brewery [ibid. iii]. A fihu/a in the form of a bee, and a bronze lamp in the shape of a dog, the head lost, were found near Ipswich in 1883 [Proc. Soc. Antiq. (Ser, 2), 98-9]. Fragments of Roman pottery were found in High Street, and a vase and other pottery from the site of the new Gas Offices in Carr Street _Proc. Suff. Arch. Inst, vii, 368]. A tetina of brown ware was found in 1862 when the new bank was built [Chart, Watling Coll., in possession of Miss Nina Layard]. In excavations on the site of the Carmelite Convent fragments of pottery at depths ranging from 10 ft. to 23 ft. have been brought up, but although some of these fragments have a certain resemblance to pottery of the Roman period, it is scarcely possible to identify any of them as of that age. Nothing definitely Roman appears to have been found [^Arch. yourn. Ivi, 236]. At Gippeswyk Hall, near Ipswich, some fragments of so-called Samian and other Roman pottery were discovered in February 1897 ^Antiq.xxy 17]. In 1902 two large urns of brown ware, wheel-turned and sun-baked, were found in some sand-pits at 'The Dales.' They were standing upright, in a small cave, like a hollow roughly formed in the ground, and were both empty. One pot had a cover, and they were both ornamented, one with moulded bands in relief, the other with incised indentations. The larger, with cover, was 15 in. in height, 1 1 in. in diameter ; the smaller 7 in. in height, 4J in. across the widest part. Pottery has been found in the brickfields on the Norwich road, and at Westerfield, where the railway line crosses the road, several more or less perfect examples have been discovered [Proc. Suff. Arch. Inst, xi, 338 (1901-3)]. In the Museum, Ipswich, is a pot-shaped vase, found in carrying out sewage works in Burlington Road. In the Museum, Bury St. Edmund's, are two bronze /ibu/ae and a chain (Acton Coll.). There is also a bronze chain in the Castle Museum, Norwich (Fitch Coll.). In the British Museum is a bronze vessel found in the garden of Cardinal Wolsey's College, and purchased in 1857. IxwoRTH. — A bronze ^bu/a was found here in 1834. It was circular, convex, and set with concentric zigzag circles of enamel. With it at the same time was turned up a silver coin of Septimius Severus (a.d. 193-21 1), and from the same spot a few bronze coins. In 1838 some pieces of pottery were dug up in digging the foundations for the parsonage. In 1846 more pottery was found, part of a glass vessel, the tusk of a boar, and the skull of an ox with the horn cores remaining. In 1834, near the road to Stowlangtoft, about half a mile south of the village, the remains of a chamber with an apsidal end, and with a pillared hypocaust, were discovered in the course of ploughing. Though attention was called to the discovery in the following spring (1835), no further investigation was made until 1849, when the place was cleared for the inspection of members of the Suffolk Institute at a meeting at Ixworth. 3"