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 A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK The main objects discovered included a grotesque mask, part of a vase, some black pottery, and a. small bronze coin of Constantine I (a.d. 307-37). A silver coin, of which the inscription was illegible, had been picked up before the excavation of the site [Proc. Suff. Arch. Inst. i, 74 et seq. ; O.S. 6 in., xxxiv, SW.]. In the churchyard was dug up a circular bronze ^bula with eight semicircular projections. It was enamelled in blue, yellow, and perhaps red, and was l^ in. in diameter [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, viii, 364]. A bronze circular fibula, gilt, was hoed up in a field where other Roman remains have been found _Proc. Suff. Arch. Inst, ii, 275]. Other bronze fibulae were also discovered [ibid, iii, pi. pp. 296, 402]. From the churchyard have been obtained at different times the following coins : — i Antoninus Pius (a.d. 138-61), first brass; 2 the same, middle brass; 1 Trajan (a.d. 98-117); I small brass of Licinius (a.d. 307-24) ; i small brass of Constantine I (a.d. 307-37) [£<7jr Angl. N. and Q. j 437]. A bronze key found here was shown in the temporary museum at the Ipswich Concrress of the British Archaeological Association [Journ. xxi, 345], and a shield-shaped bronze enamelled fibula is recorded [ibid, xxviii, 282; xxix, 90]. Fragments of so-called Samian ware have also been found, and a vase of the same with hunting subjects (1840) [SufF. Illus. (Fitch Coll.), ixx]. Roman Key [Museum, Bury St. Edmund's]. A denarius of the Rubria family, restored by Trajan, was picked up at Ixworth in 1852 [Numis. Chron. xv, 59]. The handle of a sword in bronze was also found here, and some enamelled fibulae [C. Roach Smith, Coll. Antiq. iv, 95-6]. Kelsale. About Kelsale Lodge many urns were found of ordinary black ware, and vessels of various shapes in red and buff ware [Chart, Watling Coll., in possession of Miss Nina Layard]. Kbsgrave. — A roundel in terra-cotta and a medallion in terra-cotta, Bestiarius and lion, from here are now in the Museum, Bury St. Edmund's [Acton Coll.]. Kettleburgh. — A small vase of grey ware was found here [Davy, Suff. Coll. B.M. MSS. iii, 19178, fol. 237]. KiRTON. — A large pot-shaped urn found here is now in the Ipswich Museum. Lakenheath. — Not far from Feltwell (Norf.) wal found a small pot containing brass Roman coins yourn. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxxvi, 1 04]. Found here, and now in the British Museum, are a circular bronze brooch, four pewter plates, another circular brooch bought in i87i,a number of iron fragments, hinges, an adze-head, bill-hooks, a padlock, the handle of a bucket, a knife, &c., presented by Mr. Walter K. Foster, F.S.A., in 18S2 ; a small blackish drab vase and a large vase of coarse blackish-brown hand-made ware, ornamented with a broad band of incised cross lines making a diamond pattern, the rim flat, with three ribs. Lavenham. — Coins were found in 1823 near the site of the manor house, third brass of Domitian (a.d. 81-96), of Hadrian (a.d. 117-38), and of Faustina (a.d. 138-41). A silver coin, perhaps of Trajan (a.d. 98-117), was found in 1826 [Davy, Suff. Coll. B.M. MSS. i, 19077, fol. 371]. A fragment of a glass vessel was found inclosing a small quantity of liquid of a pinkish colour, with a white sediment ; the glass was of pure white crystalline texture [ Arch. Journ. iii, 69 ]. A labourer, on 10 June 1874, ploughing in a field near Lavenham Lodge [O.S. 6-in. Ixiii, NE.] came upon a rude earthenware urn about a foot beneath the surface of the ground, containing 197 silver coins, of which 183 were saved and the rest dispersed. The following is the list of those saved : — M. Antonius (ob. B.C. 30), 3 ; Augustus (b.c. 27- A.D. 14), 1; Tiberius (a.d. 14-37), '5 Claudius (a.d. 41-54), i; Nero (a.d. 54-68), 4; Galba (a.d. 68-9), 4; Otho (a.d. 69), I; Vitellius (a.d. 69), 4; Vespasian (a.d. 69-79), 65; Titus (a.d. 79-81), 23 ; Domitian (a.d. 81-96), 42 ; Nerva (a.d. 96-8), 6; Trajan (a.d. 98-117), 28 ; in all 183 [Proc. Suff. Arch. Inst, iv, 414 et seq.]. Lowestoft. — At a place called Bloodmore Hill, between Lowestoft and Pakefield, a barrow was excavated in 1758 and a skeleton was discovered, with a gold coin and an engraved onyx set in gold hung round its neck. The coin had the word avitus on it, and a copper coin with the same inscription was also found [MS. Min. Soc. Antiq. viii, 318 (1761)]. Martlesham. — The base of a bronze equestrian figure found here, with a dedication to Mars Corotiacus from Simplicia, made by Glaucus [Hubner, Corp. Inscr. Lot. no. 93], is now in the British Museum. Melford, Long. — ' Many years since several Roman urns were dug up here in a gravel pit * [Excursions in Suff. i, 19, 59]. In March 1 823, at a distance of 300 yds. from the River Stour, near Mr. Almack's house, some workmen digging for gravel came upon a glass vessel at a depth of 6 ft. from the surface, together with two urns. The vessel and the urn stood upright at a distance of 2 ft. fi-om each other, and the former was covered by a patera reversed, as a lid. It had contained calcined bones. The larger of the two urns had a coin in the mouth, too much corroded for identification. Both urns appear to have held ashes. Near where this discovery was made skeletons, with broken urns and coins of Hadrian (a.d. 117-38) 312