Volume 2

The gentleman's magazine library : being a classified collection of the chief contents of The gentleman's magazine from 1731 to 1868. Romano-British remains / edited by George Laurence Gomme.

Date:
1887
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Credit: The gentleman's magazine library : being a classified collection of the chief contents of The gentleman's magazine from 1731 to 1868. Romano-British remains / edited by George Laurence Gomme. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Staffordshire—Stiff oik. been of that precious metal, and was very much disappointed when it proved to be only brass. Whether the vessel is what the Romans called a seria, guttus or epichysis, I shall leave to the more learned antiquaries to determine. I wished very much to have procured it, to have sent it to Mr. Green of Lichfield; but after I had seen it, and made this drawing, it was fetched from me so often, to have the quality of the metal tried by different people, and was so mutilated by filing, scraping and hammering, that it was quite spoiled for a curiosity. S. Bentley. Yoxall. [1774, /• 358.] As Mr. Robert Wright, of Yoxall, in the county of Stafford, was not long since levelling a piece of ground, half a mile distant from his dwelling-house, he discovered near forty vessels of coarse brown soft earth, almost full of the ashes and fragments of human bones. Most of the vessels were broken in the taking up: one of them, how- ever (the least damaged), was presented to Mr. Green’s museum, for the inspection of the curious ; an exact drawing of which I have here enclosed, and it is hoped will find a place in your magazine. Yours, etc. A. B. Suffolk. Aldburgh. [1832, Part I., p. 452.] On Easter Monday, as the servants of a farmer at Aldburgh were digging in his orchard, they found, a little more than a yard from the surface, a most beautiful tessellated pavement, very considerable in extent, and exhibiting a great variety of colours, the figure of a lion occupying the centre. Aldburgh, the ancient Isurium, is a station at which remains of Roman habitations have formerly been found ; and we trust that a further account of the present discovery will be given to the public. [This should be under Yorkshire, see Note 22.] Burgh Castle. [1846, Part II., p. 638.] The remains of Burgh Castle, the Garianonuin of the Romans, at the confluence of the Yare and Waveney, near Yarmouth, have been brought to the hammer as part of the estate of the late Mrs. Lydia Baret, which was divided into thirteen lots, the castle and 27 acres around and within its walls forming one. We are happy to add that this interesting specimen of a Roman fortress has been saved, by being purchased by that zealous antiquary, Sir John Boileau, Bart.