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 A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK depth of I tt. 4 in. The little rectangular chamber appears to have been just large enough to contain the coffin, and was covered by an arch turned with brick. At the head of the tomb was a small addition extending beyond the concrete platform. There was nothing about it to tell for what purpose it had been used. No objects appear to have been found with this interment [Henslow, Account of Roman Antiq. at Rougham near Bury St. Edmunds, 1843; Bury Posty^ The Roman Tumulus, Eastlow Hill, Rougham, opened 4 July 1844'; Proc. Suff. Arch. Inst, iv, 257 et seq.]. Reference is made by Prof. Babington in his introduction to the reprint of these papers [ibid.] as to the state of the barrows in June 187 1. Only two then remained, the large one, and one of the three smaller ones. The large barrow, Eastlow Hill, had an elliptical rather than a circular form and was four times larger than the other. It was 17 ft. high. The tunnel made in 1844 was still open and the tomb within the barrow could still be seen in situ. The roof was for the most part intact, and the bones of the skeleton yet lay within the chamber, although the skull had been removed to the Anatomical Museum at Cambridge, and the leaden coffin to the Fitzwilliam Museum at the same place. The barrow which had contained the cist with the glass urn and much pottery yet existed, showing the trench cut through it. It measured 56 ft. in diameter and was then something less than 5 ft. high. A bronze lamp found in one of the tumuli at Rougham was shown at a meeting of the Suffolk Institute at Thetford 29 September 1849 [Proc. Suff. Arch. Inst, i, 150; Reliq. and Illus. Archit. viii, 127-30 ; O.S. 6 in. xlv, SW.]. A full-sized model of the small chamber found in the second barrow described is to be seen in the museum at Bury St. Edmunds, containing all the antiquities found in it. These were presented to the museum by the owner of the estate, Mr. P. Bennet of Rougham Hall. A number of fragments of plain and figured so-called Samian ware, dug up at Rougham, have lately been deposited in the same museum (1899). Santon Downham. — A hoard of British coins was found near Brandon to the south of the Little Ouse, amongst them two second brass {dupondii) of the Emperor Claudius (a.d, 41-54). The probable date of the deposit was from a.d. 50 to 55 [Arch. Journ. xxvii, 92 et seq.; t^um. Chron. (Ser. 2), ix, 319]. See Appendix. Snape. — In the British Museum is a pot of pale buff ware ornamented with a chequer of slip dots, found in this parish. In 1862, among Saxon and earlier relics a thumb ring of gold set with an undoubtedly Roman intaglio was found on the common Proc. Soc. Antiq. (Ser. 2), ii, 1 81], SoTTERLEY. — Between Sotterley and Weston an olla of ordinary form was found [Chart, Watling Coll. in possession of Miss Nina Layard]. SouTHWOLD. — A middle brass coin of Constantius I (a.d. 305-6) ploughed up here had on the re- verse, memoria FELIX, and there was a hole through it for suspension [Proc. Soc. Antiq. ii, 184]. Stanton. — About a quarter of a mile from the village a good many fragments of Roman pottery and some coins were found [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, iv, 72]. Stoke Ash. — 'Drawings were exhibited (at a meeting of the Brit. Arch. Assoc. 1868) by Mr. H. Watling, of Roman remains consisting of ollae and other vessels of red and dust-coloured ware found at Stoke Ash. On the handle of an amphora was" stamped enn ivl (Ennius Julianus), and among the so-called Samian ware was a portion of a fine bowl with hunting subjects, bearing the stamp albvci ' [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxiv, 394]. A group of this pottery is figured on one of Mr. Watling's charts of Roman remains in Suffolk [Watling Coll. in posses- sion of Miss Nina Layard] and shows, besides the bowl previously mentioned, a small fragment of figured so-called Samian ware with a rabbit upon it. The stamp on the handle of the amphora is thus given, enniy. There is also a plan of the site where the pottery was found, which shows spots in fields east and west of the main road, and south of an inn called the ' White Horse ' between it and the river. On the east side of the road, which runs due north, sepul- chral urns were discovered, one reversed, the mouth covered by a tile. It is also noted on the chart referred to that the bed of the river contained a great quantity of animal bones and shards of pottery. Some coins were found, amongst them one of Crispus (a.d. 317-26). From Stoke Ash the road (presumably a Roman one) goes north by Scole, Dickleburgh, and Long Stratton, to Caister (Norf.), and it is said by the road-makers that there is a great difference in its character to the north and south of the White Horse Inn [Raven, Hist, of Suff. 25, 30]. Stonhams, the. — These parishes (Little Stonham, Earl Stonham, and Stonham Aspall) lie close together on the Roman road through the county from south to north. At Stonham Aspall was found an unguentarium containing traces of unguent [Proc. Suff. Arch. Inst, i, 24]. Dis- coveries are recorded at East (Earl ? ) Stonham, where some of the objects appeared to be British, but Roman cinerary urns were observed, also tiles, fragments of so-called Samian ware, &c. These discoveries are said to have extended over several acres [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. xxiii, 300]. 316