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ROMANO-BRITISH LEICESTERSHIRE A painted vase of Salopian ware, now in the Leicester Museum, was found in 1877 ; a coin of Vespasian (A.D. 70-9), and a stone hammer found in 1870, near the site of the other things, are also in the Leicester Museum [Rep. Mus. Committee']. These finds indicate the exist- ence of a Roman cemetery, and consequently of a neighbouring settlement, probably a villa of some importance, judging by the remains found. BARKBY. At a place on the Fosse Way called ' Round Hill,' the site of a tumu- lus now levelled, between Thurmaston and Barkby, an urn was found, which is now in the Leicester Museum. [Leic. Arch. Soc. vii, 360]. BEACON HILL (Charnwood Forest). A bronze celt of the ordinary flat form, a little more than 5 in. in length, and two large brass coins, were found on the north-west side of the Beacon Hill, about 1839. One coin was of Vespa- sian (A.D. 70-9), and was remarkable for having in front of the bust the figures Ixxxiii, very deeply incised. It is suggested that it may have been used as a military tessera. The other coin was a sestertius of Marcus Aurelius (A.D. 161-80) [ante, 'Early Man;' Proc. Soc. Antiq. (Ser. 2), i, 44]. BELVOIR PRIORY. During excavations in 1900 on the site of the priory, among other antiquities, fragments of late Celtic or Roman pottery, part of a bronze stylus, &c., were found [Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. vii, 321]. BITTESBY, near High Cross (Venonae). An urn and coins were turned up by the plough at an early date ; Burton is said to have had some of the coins [Throsby, Views of Leic. ii, 301]. BURROUGH ON THE HILL. Five miles north of Melton Mowbray, and nearly a mile north of the village, is Burrough Camp, a fortified position of great strength, of which the circumvallation is irregular in shape, governed by the natural features of its position [/w/, 'Ancient Earth- works' ; Leic. Lit. Soc. 328]. Leland and Stukeley _Iter. Cur. i, 132] speak decisively of the existence of walls, but no traces of masonry have lately been discovered, though in 1774 an article in Archtsologia mentioned the manner in which the Romans ' laid the foundations of the walls at the town of Burrough-field in Leicestershire, where the stones were set edge-wise in clay, but the superstructure was laid with lime mortar ' _Arch. iv, 76]. Some excavations were made in 1853, and signs of Celtic occupation were thought to have been discovered, i.e. rude potsherds, flint arrow-heads, and the remains of a skeleton, buried in a crouched position, but Roman coins have also been unearthed, and a dagger and spearhead thought to be Roman [Leic. Arch. Soc. vii, 23]. BREEDON. A tall jug of red ware was dug up in Breedon churchyard in 1863. It is now in the museum at Ashby de la Zouch [Leic. Arch. Soc. i, 137]. BURBAGE. A large heap of animals' horns, said to be of the Roman period, were found here in 1864 [Leic. Arch. Soc. ii, 313]. CLAYBROOKE. (See High Cross.) COSTON (3 miles from Saxby). A quern was found here 9 in. in diameter, 2 in. deep, with the piece of iron on which the upper stone revolved still remaining [Leic. Arch. Soc. vii, 131]. GRANGE. A small Roman coin was found here in 1864 [Leic. Arch. Soc. ii, 352]. CROFT. Croft Hill looks down on the ' Langham Bridges ' as they are called, which cross the Soar to the south of Narborough on the Fosse Way ; they are a series of arches, built of 211 AMPHORA, GLASS VESSELS, AND LAMT, FOUND AT BARROW UPON SOAR