. A Short account of the ancient and modern state of the city and close of Lichfield. tomed to assemble his converts, as aspot sanctified by the blood of the martyrs. In a meadow adjoining this place, known bythe name of the Toads Hole Piece, have beenrecently found a considerable quantity of humanbones, various pieces of earthenware, some ofwhich arc roman, others of a ruder form andcoarser materials; a stone bowl or dish, perhapsused somewhat in the manner of the Scotch quernfor gTinding- corn, a ball of stone, fragments ofweapons, the head of a pike or halberd, * andseveral horse shoes pier
. A Short account of the ancient and modern state of the city and close of Lichfield. tomed to assemble his converts, as aspot sanctified by the blood of the martyrs. In a meadow adjoining this place, known bythe name of the Toads Hole Piece, have beenrecently found a considerable quantity of humanbones, various pieces of earthenware, some ofwhich arc roman, others of a ruder form andcoarser materials; a stone bowl or dish, perhapsused somewhat in the manner of the Scotch quernfor gTinding- corn, a ball of stone, fragments ofweapons, the head of a pike or halberd, * andseveral horse shoes pierced for nails in the frontas well as sides, they were discovered nearly fourfeet beneath the surface in a peaty soil, amongst,and covered by, great quantities of roots anddecaying branches of trees, so that the placeseems to have been a thicket, from the midst ofwhich ran a small brook, and formed an eligiblesituation for those who sought concealment. * They are now in the possession of Lewis Buckeridge, Esqiof this City, and are represented in the following page. ANCIENT The domestic utensils, show them to be therelicks of a people destroyed in their retreat,rather than the remains of those killed in battle,and being upon the spot indicated by the tradi-tion, serve to confirm the truth of it. The earthen bowl is of a light coloured clay, 6 ANCIENT HISTORY. with small particles of iron in the surface of theinside, and letters with ornaments on the margin :a similar one is mentioned by Camden, page 362plate 27, and Throsby in his history of Leicester,has given an engraving of one found in thecloaca of that borough, they seem to have beenused also by the Romans in their sacrifices. Ipsa tenens dextra pateram pulcherrima Dido,M Candentes vaccae media inter cormia fundit. VIRGIL. The head of the pike is twenty-one inches inlength, and the stone ball four inches diameter,the bowl is granite. The arms of the city according to Gwillim, areon an escutcheon of landscape, the b
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