. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE About 150 yds. east of this find, in the north-east comer of a field at the junction of the Great and Little Wymondley and Graveley roads, a cemetery was found in 1882. Forty-three urns containing burnt bones, charcoal and iron nails, each wdth a Samian saucer and ' wine bottle,' and sometimes other small vessels were turned up within a space measuring 5 yds. by 7 yds. The pots were all of different shapes, sizes and colour, and forty-five different varieties were observed, many of which are figured.
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE About 150 yds. east of this find, in the north-east comer of a field at the junction of the Great and Little Wymondley and Graveley roads, a cemetery was found in 1882. Forty-three urns containing burnt bones, charcoal and iron nails, each wdth a Samian saucer and ' wine bottle,' and sometimes other small vessels were turned up within a space measuring 5 yds. by 7 yds. The pots were all of different shapes, sizes and colour, and forty-five different varieties were observed, many of which are figured. The drawings are not very good, but one of the urns or ' cooking pots ' seems to resemble those figured in PI. (3) of Curie, A Roman Frontier Post, which are dated to the late znd century; two hke Ludowici, Romischer lopjer in Rhein- zabern (1905-8), iii, 264, P. 14, 265 V. 7, both apparently also of the znd century. One Samian cup Drag, shape (33) and eight Samian paterae are also shown, three of which are stamped ' ANELLi . OF' (?' AnaiUi of,' which occurs mostly on the Rhine and in the Low Countries), • Doccivs . F' (found at Caudebec-les-Elbeuf and Vichy, London and York), ' romvli . of ' (found in the AUier and Rhone Valleys, Aosta and at Colchester). The first-named might possibly be the ' viertel-rund' type, usually an early one, but the character of the drawing makes it impossible to be certain. * Fragments of pottery and Samian ware were turned up in almost every part of the quadrangular inclosure, which can be distinctly traced from the raised ground and trenches encirchng it, measuring about 20 acres ' and included the ceme- tery (see map). These finds are noteworthy because they, to- gether with the square shape of the two fields adjoining the mounds, ' still distinctly sur- rounded by a moat,' are con- sidered by Mr. Seebohm as evi- dence of the continuity of occupation from the Roman period. He held that the in- closure and its contents were the remains of
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