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ROMANO-BRITISH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Cotton [Mill and Mallows]. — Mill Cotton seems not to be Roman ; Mallows Cotton a villa : see p. 194. In Raunds parish. Cranford St. John. — Coin of Constantine [Gentleman's Magaxme (1757), p. 20]. Coins and pottery [Kelly's Director. Cranslev. — Two liglit-coloured jugs and a third with Late Celtic affinities found 1892 between Cranslev Wood and Mawsley Wood [Northampton Museum]. Whether the objects found in 1882 include Roman things is doubtful [Proceedings of the Society of jlnti- guaries, ix. 93]. Crick. — Silver coin of Hadrian [Morton, p. 532]. Culworth. — Coin of Quintillus [Beesley's Banhury, p. 30]. Dallington. — Trench full of rude potsherds (i bit of Samian), found while making a railway siding in 1861 ; either a rubbish pit or a rude kiln [Associated Archit. Soc. Reports, vi. 219, xiii. 125 ; Archaologia, xliii. 9 ; Northampton Museum]. Daventry. — Villa inside pre-Roman camp on Borough Hill : see p. 195. Foundations at Burnt Walls : see p. 195. Deene. — Bronze figurine of Minerva [Archatological Institute, 'Lincoln ' vol. p. xxix.]. Deeping (West). — Skeleton, 5 much worn 'first brass' coins of Claudius I., Vespasian Nerva, Hadrian, Sabina, enamelled circular fibula, enamelled fibula shaped like a duck, 3 rings, 2 bronze pins; found together in February, 1880. Now in Dr. Walker's collection in Peterborough. Desborough. — Skeletons, bones, pottery, near railway station [Sir Hy. Dryden]. DoDFORD. — Coins of Tetricus, Constantine, etc. [Morton, p. 532 ; Bridges, i. 50]. DusTON. — Villa or village : see p. 197. Evenley. — Coins (probably hoard), several hundred in number, of Nero, Domitian, Sev. Alexander, Probus, Carausius, Constantine, etc., found 1826 in draining Addington's Meadow [B.iker, i. 617]. Hoard, found 1854, '" earthenware urn : 2,448 'second brass' of Diocletian to Constantine Land 705 'third brass' of Valerian to Diocletian, apparently all mixed together [Numismatic Chronicle, xvii. (1854) 38, xi. (1871) 174]. Coins, including a Conbtantius, found in eighteenth century at Astwick [Bridges, i. 168]. Potsherds, vaguely mentioned in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, sen 2, ii. 75- Everdon. — Coin of Constantine period, mortar, ashes — ploughed up in Longsmall Field [Baker, i. 368 ; hence Whellan, p. 415]. Farthingstone. — See Castle Dykes. Finedon. — Plain urn [Northampton Museum]. Fineshade. — Coins, vaguely mentioned [Morton, p. 532]. Foscote (Foxcote). — Villa: see p. 199. In Towcester parish. FoTHERiNGHAY. — Pottery (much of it Late Celtic in character), skeletons, coins of later emperors, horns of red deer — in the gravel quarry called Elton Ballast Hole [R. F. Whistler, History of Elton (London, 1892), pp. 63-4]. Gayton. — Villa : see p. 198. Gretton. — Coins mentioned vaguely [Kelly's Directory]. Gritworth. — Five urns, . Roman [Morton, p. 530 ; Beesley's Banhury, p. 32]. Guilsborough. — Earthwork, now mostly destroyed : the plan is not Roman [Camden ; Morton, p. 524 ; Wetton, p. no, etc.]. Haddon (West). — Urn containing ashes, covered by flat stone (? Roman). Elsewhere in parish Roman coins [Morton, p. 530]. The notion that Ostor Hill in this parish has anything to do with Ostorius is untenable. Hardingstone. — Silver coins (i of Nero), perhaps hoard, found near Queen's Cross [Morton, p. 504 ; hence Bridges, i. 359, Whellan, p. 264 ; etc.]. Three coins of Probus and Tacitus, and perhaps more, said to have been found in an urn in Hardingstone Field, 1845 [Sir Hy. Dryden]. Perhaps a ' third brass ' hoard of circa a.d. 250-80. Potsherds (including Castor ware), bones of animals, found 1853 [Journal of the British Archieological Association, x. 92]. Pottery and a well found in 1884, 800 yards east of Hunsbury Camp [Associated Archit. Soc. Reports, xviii. 61]. Handbricks, 'third brass' coin of Claud. Gothicus, potsherds and perhaps rude kiln, found in 1875 on north side of Hunsbury Hill [ibid. p. 61]. 217