. The Victoria history of the county of Nottingham;. Natural history. Bronze Fibula from (British Museum) Skegby A HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE Skegby.—A Roman bronze fibula of 2nd-century type was found here, and is now in the British Museum, acquired 1873 ; length 2Ain. See fig. 16. Southwell.— There seems to be reason to suppose that this ancient city, the ' Civitas Tiovulfingaceaster' of Bede,contains the site of a small Roman settlement. Dickinson, indeed, sought to prove that it was the missing station of Ad Pontem (see p. 7), ' the centre of four great roads from Lincoln, Leicester, Notti
. The Victoria history of the county of Nottingham;. Natural history. Bronze Fibula from (British Museum) Skegby A HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE Skegby.—A Roman bronze fibula of 2nd-century type was found here, and is now in the British Museum, acquired 1873 ; length 2Ain. See fig. 16. Southwell.— There seems to be reason to suppose that this ancient city, the ' Civitas Tiovulfingaceaster' of Bede,contains the site of a small Roman settlement. Dickinson, indeed, sought to prove that it was the missing station of Ad Pontem (see p. 7), ' the centre of four great roads from Lincoln, Leicester, Nottingham, and Mansfield,' but in interpreting that term as ' the station on the road to the bridge' {sc. from Mar- gidunum), he only darkens counsel, as the bridge must then be looked for west or north of Southwell [Dickinson, Antiq, in Notts, i, 88 fF. ; Expl. Obs. 5, with map at end of part i ; cf. Horsley, Brit. Rom. 439 ; and Gough, Camden, ii, 402]. Dickinson, however, records the discovery in I 793 of a tessellated pavement five or six feet below the surface on the east side of the archbishop's palace, with which were found some fragments of urns. Shortly before, a small vault, composed almost entirely of Roman bricks, had been found on the north side of the church, and when from time to time some of the more ancient buildings were pulled down, it was generally seen that Roman bricks formed part of their foundations [Dickinson, loc. cit. ; Brayley, Beauties of Engl, and Wales, xii (i), 256]. A few Roman corns had been found in the town before Dickinson's time, two of which he describes as small copper coins of the reigns of Constantius and Magnentius ( 291-312) [ibid.]. Though there are no records of Roman remains in that part of the town known as the Burgage, which Dickinson believed to be a camp occupied by the Romans, he may be correct in that supposition, but it is of oval, not rectangular, form [see op. cit. for a plan of the course of the fosse ; also No
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