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 A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK found at Kenny Hill about three miles north of Mildenhall [Proc. Soc. Antiq. (Ser. 2), xiv, 155). A cinerary urn with burnt bones ; a portion of a quern of lava ; three bronze dishes, one within the other ; a bronze winged figure holding flowers ; a dagger with ivory (?) handle and some coins, silver and bronze, were all found in Mildenhall Fen [Proc. Suff. Arch. Inst. i 312-13]. Lying on the clay under 6 ft. of vegetable mould in another fen near Mildenhall were found a portion of a concave mirror, the handle of bronze 3 in. long, and near it a bronze hand 2^ in. long, the fingers extended, evidently part of a figure which was not found ; two blue and white glass beads, and a button of transparent light green glass f in. in diameter. At the same time and place were found coins of Hadrian (a.d. 117-38), Vespasian (a.d. 69-79), and Constantine I (a.d. 307-37) [ibid. 310 et seq.], and a ring with a female figure at an altar, engraved on an amethyst set in silver [ibid, iii, 406]. A vase of Durobrivian ware was ploughed up at West Row in 1869 [ibid, iv, 374]. In 1897 a 'canister' of Roman coins weighing about 5 lb. was found in a field, but no particulars have been recorded _Antiq. xxxiii, 1 7, Haverfield, ' Quarterly Notes ']. In the Museum, Bury St. Edmunds, in one of the earthen pots containing coins, a glass vase having an inscription in relief, found near Holywell Row in 1833, and a small black vase, exhibited, and the latter presented, by Sir Henry Bunbury ; also a steelyard hook, chain and loops in bronze (Acton Coll.). NowTON. — A fragment of a quern of pudding stone was found here [Proc. Suff. Arch. Inst, i, 304 et seq.]. Pakenham. — A tessellated pavement was discovered in this parish on Redcastle Farm in grass-land near the farm-house. It was preserved for a time, but was finally destroyed by cattle getting into the inclosure which had been made for its protection [Camden, Brit. (ed. Gough), ii, 81 ; Proc. Suff. Arch. Inst, i, 74]. A burial-place was opened early in the 19th century by a man digging for brick earth. This appears to have been at a spot near Pakenham Mill. The report of the man who made the discovery was to the effect that he found a square place full of pots set in rows. He could not tell the number, but there were a great many, and they were of a dark colour. Mr. Sharpe of Ixworth, who saw them, reports that several of them had covers. No care was taken to preserve them [ibid. 75]. One of these urns is figured on a chart in the Watling Coll. in the possession of Miss Nina Layard, where it looks like a Roman cinerary urn. In digging for gravel in 1844, 'w perfect skeletons were discovered, also fragments of pottery, parts of two bronze plated spoons, hairpins in bone and bronze, a stylus, a piece of stag's horn, and an iron object. Besides these there was a bronze handle of good workmanship which, from fragments of wood adhering to it, may have belonged to the lid of a box holding some of the articles mentioned. At a somewhat later date, a coin of Constans (a.d. 337-50) was turned up. In 1845 a bronze bracelet and an ^nzmeWtd. fibula were found [Proc. Suff. Arch. Inst, iii. Figs. 5 and 6, pp. 296, 402-3 ; C. Roach Smith, Coll. Ant'tq. iv, 95-6], four or five urns of common ware, not cinerary, and some fragments of so-called Samian ware, together with pieces of thick buff ware and a large brass coin of Nerva (a.d. 96-8), were likewise found [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, i, 138 ; Proc. Suff. Arch. Inst. i, 74 et seq.]. A silver coin of Julia Domna (died a.d. 217) with reverse of Geta (a.d. 211— 12) was found in a village adjoining Ixworth (Pakenham?) [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, vi, 445]. The traces of a Roman road occur in this parish on the Queach Farm, tenanted by Mr. Waites Matthew. When a ditch was cut through the line of the road in 1856, the section showed gravel about 10 yds. wide and about 1 ft. thick at the crown. The road passed through fields formerly part of Pakenham Heath, and near it was a place called Puttocks Hill, where was once a tumulus. As far as it is possible to trace it, its course is roughly east and west. In a small field, where the line of it can be most clearly seen, was found a brass coin of Trajan (a.d. 98-117) and a harp-shaped enamelled fibula [Proc. Suff. Arch. Inst, i, 74 ; ii, 212, 221 ; O.S. 6-in. xxxiv, SW.]. A mortarium was found on Messrs. Burrell and King's land, on the south-west side of Ixworth Bridge [Proc. Suff. Arch. Inst, vii, 214]. A denarius of Tiberius (a.d. 14-37) '^^ found in a field at a fork of the roads through Pakenham to Bury and Thurston station [Raven, Hist, of Suff. 26]. Peasenhall. — Close to the remains of Sibton Abbey, a quarter of a mile north-east of the village of Peasenhall, are traces of a ' supposed Roman road running north of east and some 600 ft. long' [O.S. 6-in. xxxviii, SE.]. Playford. — A vase 6 in. high, the same m diameter, found here in an old fosse is now in the Museum, Bury St. Edmunds. Poslingford. — A Roman coin, a brass weight and a key were found at the Hall [Proc. Suff. Arch. Inst, i, 87 et seq.]. Redgrave. — An urn was dug up here about 3 ft. 6 in. in circumference [ibid, i, 148]. This may be the one of buff ware from Redgrave preserved in the Museum, Bury St. Edmunds. 3H