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ROMANO-BRITISH WARWICKSHIRE The occurrence of small kilns for the local manufacture of pelves is common. These ' mullers ' were cumbrous to transport and could not be used as wine jars or corn jars. They were therefore seldom exported, but manufactured as need arose locally. The manufacture on any one spot may have been a temporary affair of a few years. See Corpus Inscrip. Latin, xiii. (3) p. 77. HIGH CROSS. Village (?) : see p. 232. HILLMORTON. Cup of grey ware, found in ballast-hole near canal [Rugby School Museum]. ILMINGTON. Roman potsherds and coins, also small earthwork of uncertain age, near Pig Lane on Knebsworth Common [R. F. Tomes ; J. H. Bloom ; Warwick Field Club Report, 1892, p. 59]. IPSLEY. Urn, of uncertain age [Archaeological "Journal, ii. 202]. 'Camp, not Roman [Bloxam, Birmingham and Midland Institute (Archaeological section), 1875, p. 38]. ITCHINGTON, BISHOP'S. Coins, including denarius of Nero [W. Gardner]. ITCHINGTON (LONG). Indications of house : p. 238. KENILWORTH. Indications of house, in the Chase woods : p. 238. KINETON. Coins (i Claudius I., 4 Constantinian copper) in Bankey meadow on the north side of the road from Kineton towards Banbury ; silver coin of Julian at Castle Hill [E. P. Shirley, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, iv. 92, ser. ij. The Rev. J. H. Bloom also records coins of Pius, Gordian I. (silver) and A.D. 250-350. KING'S NEWNHAM. Samian potsherd, bronze fibula, deer's horn, boar's tusk [Bloxam, Birmingham Analyst, 1836, iv. 180], KNOWLE. Hoard of 'third brass' (Gallienus, Salonina, Tetricus, etc.), in all 15 Ib. weight, found in an urn in 1778 in the manor of Knowle [Archaologia, vii. 413 ; Gentleman s Magazine, 1795, ii. 988 ; hence Bartlett, Manduessedum Romanum, p. 12 note, and later writers]. LADBROKE. Frequent coins, especially near Chapel Ascot and Hodnell [W. Gardner]. LAWFORD. At Little Lawford, north of the Avon, three urns in circular cist of limestone found about 1815 [Bloxam, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, vi. 346, ser. 2, and Bir- mingham and Midland Institute (Archaeological section), 1875, p. 36 ; see also his Rugby, the School and Neighbourhood (London, 1889), p. 182]. Potsherds, including an odd-shaped vessel of Samian ware 2 inches high (fig. 2), found on the south side of the Avon, in Long Lawford [Bloxam, ibid. ; Rugby Museum]. LEEK WOOTTON. Mr. J. T. Burgess mentions a ' Roman goddess ' as found here [Warwick Field Club Report, 1873, p. 1 1], but I do not know what he means. LIGHTHORNE. Coins (one of Allectus) near Warwick and Banbury Road [Ribton Turner, Shakespeare's Land, p. 316 ; W. Gardner]. LILLINGTON. Potsherds found lately in gravel pit near church [Murray's Guide, p. 6 1 ; Mr. S. S. Stanley]. Those I have seen are not Roman. LOXLEY. Coin of Allectus found near Loxley House [Mr. Cove Jones]. MANCETTER. Village (?) : p. 233. MARTON. Two silver coins [W. Gardner]. MEON HILL. Bloxam mentioned a ' camp ' and a ' magazine of Roman arms ' here, in the Birmingham Analyst, 1836, iv. 185 ; later he gave them up. MILVERTON. Earthen urn with about 200 'third brass' found 1885. About sixty which were examined ranged from Gallienus to Probus [Numismatic Chronicle, 1886, p. 246 ; S. S. Stanley, Warwick Field Club Report, 1888]. MONKS KIRBY. Villa and burials (?) : see p. 238. NUNEATON. Hoard of over 40 denarii, 2 Republican (Cassia, Livineia), the rest ranging from Vespasian to Marcus [Numismatic Chronicle, 1 88 1, p. 307]. A small hoard of a common type : compare Arch&ologia, liv. 490. OFFCHURCH. Lady Aylesbury has at Offchurch Bury a number of ' third brass ' of circa A.D. 260400 and some minims, found probably in the neighbourhood : compare War- wick Archaeological Society Report, 1876, p. 40, and Field Club Report, 1878, p. 2. The alleged ' Roman capitals ' now in the porch of the Bury are modern. PETER HALL. Two small bronze heads, cast hollow and filled with lead, presumably part of a steelyard : found at Peter Hall near Combe Abbey. Samian potsherds (DIVIX) found about 1840 in Combe Park [Bloxam in Associated Architectural Society Papers, i. 228, 229 ; in Birmingham and Midland Institute (Archaeological section), 1875, p. 35, and in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, v. 303]. The heads are now in Rugby School Museum. 247