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 A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK other by broad or narrow lines. Right and left on either hand, a band over I ft. wide con- taining a series of black scrolls on a white ground was added to the square composition, and the whole was set in a field of coarse red tile tesserae. In the hall of the residence on the spot are preserved three vases, one a small black cinerary urn, another a flower-pot-shaped vase ornamented with two rows of flutings divided by a fillet, and a globular amphora with its handles and neck removed. The cinerary urn when discovered was full of ashes and bones. The amphora was found in 1 894, and all three vessels came from a gravel pit close to the site of the villa. The amphora was emptied by the labourers who found it, and it is supposed that it may have contained coins, but of this nothing certain could be ascertained. Three coins were preserved with these vases, one of Rome, with the wolf and twins on the reverse, one of Constantinople, and one of an emperor of the Constantine family [Gent. Mag. 1855, pt. i, 179; and from personal observation (G.E.F.)]. With the fragment of the mosaic pavement in the museum at Ipswich are photographs of the plain pavement mentioned, and a coloured print to an inch scale of the more elaborate one, published by H. Davy, Globe Street, Ipswich, May 1855. This was from a drawing made on the spot when the pavement was first uncovered. A tessellated pavement was found in 1870, and from time to time coins have been turned up, some said to be of Vespasian (a.d. 69-79), others probably of the 4th century. In February 1897 another pavement was found, consisting of red and white tesserae of a less elaborate pattern than those formerly found [Jntig. xxxiii, 104 (1897), Haverfield, ' Quarterly Notes']. WiCKHAMBROOK. — A ^bu/a was ploughed up in a field called ' Four Acre Honeycomb ' on the Lodge Farm, about i mile from the mediaeval entrenchments at Lidgate. The fibula was of bronze gilt, oval in shape, and set with a stone like an amethyst, rising nearly to a point. Some coins found with it were mostly of Constantine I. (a.d. 307-37), with some of Probus (a.d. 276- 81) and of Pertinax (a.d. 193). Also at the same time the bronze figure of a bird, an eagle or hawk, perhaps part of the handle of some vessel, was discovered [Gent. Mag, 1788, pt. ii, 702]. A small bowl of figured so-called Samian ware, diameter at top 9^ in., depth 5^ in., ornamented with medallions, in one of which is a Cupid, and surrounded by an egg and tassel band, was found in 1830 about I J miles from the church (of Lidgate ?) towards Bad- mondisfield Hall [Davy, SufF. Coll. B.M. MSS. v, 19180, fol. 2]. A small bronze figure possibly of Hercules and a handle of some object ornamented with four faces, and some Roman coins (one of them of Constantine the Great [a.d. 307-37], third brass) were found before 1859 '" draining the 'Honeycomb* Field before mentioned [Proc. Suff. Arch. Inst. i, 151 ; ii, 98]. WiNGFiELD. — Silver coins and some objects of the same metal were found about 1836, the find vouched for by Miss Heyman, sister of the then vicar of Fressingfiefd, Sir H. P. Heyman, who saw some of the coins. Attached to the find is a story of buried treasure [Davy, SufF. Coll. B.M. MSS. XV, 19092, fol. 379]. WixoE. — In Ainsford, near the Stour, many coins have been found, two noted, one of Nero (a.d. 54-68), the other of Constans (a.d. 337-50) [Arch, xiv, 71]. WooDBRiDGE. — A small bronze globular vessel with two handles was found near this town [Proc. Soc. Antiq. (Ser. 2), xi, I 74]. WooLPiT. — The large entrenchments on Warren Farm are supposed to be Roman [Lysons, Mag. Brit, 1730, v, 249-50 ; Kirby, The Suff. Traveller, iv, 62 ; Camden, Brit. (ed. Gough), ii, 84]. Fragments of bronze horse furniture and two Roman coins were found within these entrenchments [Proc. Suff. Arch. Inst, ii, 207 et seq.]. A spoon and spatula of bronze, and two * amulets '(?) of bronze, annular, with loops for suspension, filled with fine clay, diameter 1 1 in., are in the museum, Bury St. Edmunds (Acton Coll.). WoRLiNGWORTH. — Here were found in 1827, in making a road in front of the parsonage, some bones, an urn, and four Roman coins, three of which were possibly of Allectus (a.d. 293-6) [Davy, SuflF. Coll. B.M. MSS. xv, 19092, fol. 417]. Wratting, Great. — An amphora and a patera were ' found in a field called Nine Acres, upon Monks Land, belonging to Sotterly Green Farm.' A great quantity of Roman pottery, coins, urns, &c., was also found in this field [Gent, Mag. 1804, pt. ii, 1006]. 320