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ROMANO-BRITISH WARWICKSHIRE (5) An alleged ' camp ' at Selly Oak (now indistinguishable) and an alleged well near Harborne seem to lack proof of Roman origin. These finds show that Birmingham was not in any real sense an inhabited site in the Roman period. Wm. Baxter [Glossarium Antiq. Britann. (London, 1719), p. 46], gave the spot the name Bremenium, just as a guess, and the idea was picked up by Bertram in forging ' Richard of Cirencester.' It has of course no validity and is totally unworthy of credence : Bremenium itself was in Northumberland. For the line of Rycknield Street across Birmingham see p. 240. BLACKLOW HILL. Lord Algernon Percy of Guy's Cliffe has four coins (silver of Antony, Pius, Commodus, bronze of Nero) which were found in a drawer, wrapped in a paper marked ' Coins dug up at Blacklow Hill.' Other coins are believed to have been found with them but are lost and the date of the find is unknown. Blacklow Hill (in Leek Wootton parish) is close to Guy's Cliffe and Gaveston's Cross. [Unpublished.] BRAILES. Potsherds [R. F. Tomes]. BRINKLOW. N. Salmon [New Survey (1731), p. 492] put Ratae here, but it is ;in impossible idea. The earthworks here are certainly not Roman, as all will agree who have seen them. The question whether the Fosse deviates to avoid them [Archaological "Journal, xxxv. 114, etc.] can only be settled by excavation, but they seem to me to be planted across it [Dugdale, 218; W. G. Fretton, ' Staunton Folio,' Birmingham and Midland Institute, 1883, p. 35, plan of 1821 ; Archaeological Journal, xxxv. 113, xxxviii. 435 (horseshoes, miscalled Roman) ; Builder, June 12, 1884 ; Journal of the British Archaeo- logical Association, xx ix. 40]. BROWNSOVER. Roman cinerary urn in chapel yard, recorded by Bloxam [Rugby, the School and Neighbourhood (London, 1889), p. 195 ; and Rugby School Nat. Hist. Sac. Trans. 1884]. The ' camp ' here has no claim to be considered Roman. BUBBENHALL. Seven inscribed tiles found 1877 in demolishing a building supposed to be 200 years old. The inscriptions are identical and are a reproduction of the inscription found about the year 1600 at Bremenium (High Rochester), [Corpus Inscriptionum Latin, vii. 986]. The texture of the tiles, the forms of the letters and a mistake in the lettering prove these tiles to be modern productions ; and comparison shows that they were actually stamped with the block (or a duplicate of the block) used by Camden [Britannia (1607), ed. 4] to illustrate the High Rochester altar. One tile was given to Trinity College, Cambridge, one to Warwick Museum, where I have seen them [Notes and Queries, fifth series, vii. (1877), pt. 2, pp. 28, 74, 133, 195, 436 ; Archteological Journal, xxxiii. 452]. Sir John Evans (in Notes and Queries) first suggested the original of the tiles, and Mr. S. M. Leathes, Fellow of Trinity College, confirmed this by comparing the tile in Trinity College Library with the illustration in Camden. I imagine that the tiles were fabricated early in the seventeenth century and more probably as a jeu d 'esprit than as a forgery. BUTLERS MARSTON. Coins are said to have been found in the parish. There is a farm called Blacklands, but I am assured that nothing has ever been detected on it. See Combrook. CAVE'S INN. Hamlet on Wading Street : p. 230. CESTERSOVER. Various assertions have been made that this is a Roman site, but it is probably only a Saxon one. Stukeley [Itin. Curiosum, i. 112] mentions foundations, etc., at Old Town, though without calling them Roman ; M. H. Bloxam in one of his earlier papers [Birmingham Analyst, 1836, iv. 179] speaks of Roman pavements and burials. But these, as he later saw, are Saxon [C. Roach Smith, Collectanea Antiqua, i. 38 ; Bloxam, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, viii. 322, ser. 2 ; Archceologia, xlviii. 337]. The late J. T. Burgess stated that Roman pavements and late Roman remains were found during the construction of the Midland Railway from Leicester to Rugby in 1839 [Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 1873, xxix. 40]. But I can get no confirmation of the statement though I have made local enquiries. The derivation of the name is doubtful. Mr. W. H. Stevenson tells me that Dugdale's ' the eastern over ' is wrong, and that a derivation from ' ceaster ' is unlikely. CHESTERTON. Village (?) : see p. 234. CLIFTON-ON-DUNSMORE. Skeletons, beads, a jewel mounted in gold and a bronze bowl- handle, found in 1843, nave Deen called Roman [M. H. Bloxam, Associated Architectural Society Papers, i. 229]. But the jewel was pronounced Saxon by Sir A. W. Franks and probably the whole find is Saxon. Mr. Goodacre of Ullesthorp has some of the things. 245