. The Victoria history of the county of Nottingham;. Natural history. ROMANO-BRITISH NOTTINGHAMSHIRE About 1840 a large number of skeletons were found between the railway station and Potter Hill (see p. 12), and according to one report Roman coins with them [Wake, Hist of Colling- ham, 42 •, Kelly's Dir. 1904, p. 48]. An amber and a stone bead, ' British or Roman,' were found in afield near the High Street [Wake, loc. cit.]. CoLLiNGHAM, SouTH.—Quantities of Roman pottery, including a few fragments of Gaulish ware and a mortarium, are said to have been found here [Wake, Hist, of Collingham, 43
. The Victoria history of the county of Nottingham;. Natural history. ROMANO-BRITISH NOTTINGHAMSHIRE About 1840 a large number of skeletons were found between the railway station and Potter Hill (see p. 12), and according to one report Roman coins with them [Wake, Hist of Colling- ham, 42 •, Kelly's Dir. 1904, p. 48]. An amber and a stone bead, ' British or Roman,' were found in afield near the High Street [Wake, loc. cit.]. CoLLiNGHAM, SouTH.—Quantities of Roman pottery, including a few fragments of Gaulish ware and a mortarium, are said to have been found here [Wake, Hist, of Collingham, 43 ; Kelly's Dir. 1904, p. 48]. In this parish is the station of Crococolana (see under Brough, p. 11). See also Cromwell for the bridge across the Trent here. CoTGRATE.—Four skeletons lying in separate graves were found in the line of the Fosse Way about 1B36 ; with one was a third brass of Carausius ( 287-93), ^^^ '' '^ ^^''^ ^^'^^ '^^° iron spears, varying in length from 16 in. to 18 in., were deposited with each interment. Other Roman coins from the neighbourhood are also reported, but not in detail. Bateman regarded this as a Saxon burial, but Mr. Reginald Smith considers it Roman of the 5th century [yourn. Brit. Arch. Assoc, iii, 297 ; viii, 190 ; Bailey, Ann. of Notts, iv, 397 ; Notts, i, 197]. At Lodge-on-the-Wolds in this parish Stukeley, in 1722, saw the Roman pavement of the Fosse [Itin. Cur. io6 ; see above, p. 8]. Cromwell.—In this parish is the site of a Roman bridge crossing the Trent (Ordnance Survey, 6-in. XXV, SE.] a little way below a bank or island called the ' Oven.' Part of this bridge seems to have been cleared away early in the last century to improve the navigation of the river. Its piers were described by Frank Lambert, an old servant of the Trent Navigation Company, who had assisted in its removal, as of ' lozenge-shape,' formed by trees laid on the bed of the river, and the inclosed space filled in with Coddington stone laid edgeways
Size: 1367px × 1828px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectnaturalhistory, booky
