Volume 1

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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    ploughed up in the Eastnay, a common-field lying on the east side of Bray town. As Bray parish is large (being a whole hundred), it takes in part of the waste called (now improperly, because there has not been within the memory of man either bush or tree on it) Maiden- head Thicket, on which are the outlines of a camp; and, towards the south-east, it comprehends part of St. Leonard’s hill, in Windsor Forest; where, in a wood just without the verge, may still be seen the hole out of which were dug, some years ago, a Roman lamp and several other articles. Incompertus. Chaddleworth. [1827, Part II., p. 448.] While some labourers were lately employed in taking up some Roman pavement in a field near the farm-house of Mr. Millet (the property of John Wasey, Esq.), called Ploughley, in Chaddleworth, Berkshire, they found a flat stone, upon which was curiously cut a cross, above which were the following letters, and the number 91 immediately above: I OROUIOO VS 91 roB: PORI. Upon removing this stone, wrhich wras 6 feet in length, it was found to cover a grave which contained two perfect human skeletons. These, on being touched, immediately broke to pieces. Skeletons and many other relics have been found in that neighbourhood before. Newbury. [1827, Part I.,pp. 161, 162.] A discovery of rather a curious nature has taken place in the neigh- bourhood of Newbury. As a servant belonging to Mr. Aldridge was clearing out a drain which ran into a heap of rubbish near the premises, he struck upon an ashlar stone which appeared to cross the drain, and, on lifting it up, discovered an ancient vase, which, from its shape and other circumstances, proves itself to be of Roman origin. The vase is about 7 inches high, the lower part cylindrically formed, terminating in an elegantly-shaped neck; and, judging from its colour, it is of that composition which historians call the Samian yet. The letters D : o M : in one line, and S : M : L : in another under it, are visibly impressed upon it, but there are others which have not yet been deciphered. In the vase was a deposit of dark-coloured ashes, which had evidently been calcined, a small piece of iron or steel about 2 inches long, fixed in a sort of handle of horn, on which are impressed, rather indistinctly, the letters P : R : M. There are also two small coins, the literal inscription obliterated, but on the side of one of them is a female figure with a spear. Pangbourn. [1838, Part II., p. 650.] Some interesting discoveries have been recently made at Shooter’s Hill, near Pangbourn, Berks, on the line of the Great Western Rail-