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A HISTORY OF HEREFORDSHIRE coins, pottery, and other articles have been found. The Roman road to Magna was cut through here transversely about two feet below the surface _Woolhope Club Trans. 1882, p. 257 ; Hereford Times, 17 Aug. 1867]. See also under Kenchester, p. 180. The camp here is British and there is no evidence that it was occupied by the Romans, as sometimes stated _Arch. Journ. xxxiv, 366 ; Woolhope Club Trans. 1882, p. 237, with plan]. DiNEDOR. — Coins of Galba and Vitellius (a.d. 68-9) found in the Camp here are said to be now in the possession of Mr. Bodenham of Rotherwas [Information from Mr. Pilley]. DoNNiNGTON. — Remains of masonry have been found here, apparently forming a well with domed top ; within it were tiles and pottery, which Professor Windle pronounced ' clearly Roman.' One vase is described as 'of fine pottery in pale terra-cotta brown (Samian),' another as ' in the shape of a flower-pot in dark red pottery, one inch thick ' with incised markings. Eastnor. — In 1876 some curious pieces of stone piping were discovered near the castle, made of Oolite bored through the centre and socketed into one another ; they were evidently water- pipes, and were in 1882 in the possession of Mr. G. H. Piper. The nearest Oolite available No evidence is is at Bredon Hill, twelve miles distant [Woolhope Club Trans. 1882, p. 256] given that these objects are Roman. Eaton Bishop. — Two Roman lamps and an urn found here are now in the Hereford Museum ^jirch. Surv. Index]. FowNHOPE. — A coin of the Empress Lucilla (a.d. 161) found in Capler Camp is described as ' a fine specimen of a sestertius or Roman first brass ' : obv. : bust of Lucilla ; rev. : priestess offering olive-wreaths at altar, with SC ; legend almost obliterated. It is now in the Hereford Museum [Woolhope Club Trans. 1883, p. 45 ; 1896, App. I ; Arch. Surv.,lnAcx. The camp, though quite near to Fownhope village, is actually in the parish of Woolhope ; but the coin may have been found in Fownhope parish. Frome, Bishop's. — See Bishop's Frome. Ganarew. — Mrs. Bagnall-Oakeley, writing in 1895, stated that * Roman coins and swords were discovered some years ago ' at the camp on the Little Doward in this parish [Bristol and Glouc. Arch. Soc. Trans, xix, 401 ; but cf. Woolhope Club Trans. 1885, p. 213]. Goodrich. — At Copped Wood Hill a large collection of 4th-century coins was dug up about 181 7 [Arch. Surv. Index ; Woolhope Club Trans. 1882, p. 258 ; Arch. Journ. xxxiv, 365 ; Wright, Wanderings of an Antiq. 14]. Iron scoriae appear in great quantities about Whitchurch and Goodrich strewn over the surface of the fields and also lying in a thick and apparently deep layer very little below the surface in many places. They extend on both sides of the road as far as Weir End in Bridstow parish, where they are found in abundance near the river, and in other parts of the parish [Wright, loc. cit.]. It is said that these beds of cinders can be traced for miles round Goodrich Castle [Arch. Journ. xxxiv, 364]. A hollow bronze dodecahedron in perfect con- dition, I-Jin. high and -Jin. thick, was found on Coppen Hill in 1877-8 ; each facet pierced with a circular opening ^ in. across, and each angle furnished with a small round knob. The work- manship is rude [Arch. Journ, xxxiv, 364 ; xxxv, 87, fig. i]. There are similar objects in the British Museum and in the library of the Society of Antiquaries, and the former was exhibited in 1877 to the Archaeological Institute by Sir A. W. Franks. A dozen others have been found in Germany and Switzerland. They were probably used, as Mr. A. H. Smith has suggested, as ' gauge- keys ' for measuring metal rods [See Conze in Westdeutsche Zeitschrift, xi, pt. 3, p. 204 ; St. Venant, Dodicaidres perlis (he thinks that they were used in games of skill or chance) ; Jahrbuch des deutsches arch. Inst., Anzeiger, 1 89 1, p. 183; 1892, p. 25]. Hereford. — There are no indications that this city was ever the site of Roman occupation. The supposed Roman road from Kenchester to Stretton Grandison passes a mile or two north of it, and practically the only objects found in the city must have come from Kenchester. A probable though unimportant exception is a Roman copper coin found in the masonry of the city wall Fig. 15. -Bronze Dodecahedron AT Goodrich [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc, xxxvii, 183]. 192