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A HISTORY OF WORCESTERSHIRE Ombersley . . . On Hadley Heath Common in levelling two mounds in 1815, 'red earth ' ware and Samian [Allies, p. 106]. OvERBURY . . . See Bredon. PowiCK .... Two sepulchral urns found 1832 between junction of Upton and Malvern roads; two more found 1833 west of village: coin of Claudius Gothius, coin of Constantine junior [Worcester Museum ; Allies, p. 73]. RiBBESFORD . . . Gold coin of Tiberius found in Wyre Forest about 1770, according to Nash (ii..277; followed by Gough, Add. to Camden, ii. 476; Allies, p. 146). I suspect this must be the same as the gold coin of Tiberius (PONTIF MAXIMVS, seated figure with spear and olive = Cohen, 15) said by J. R. Burton, History of Bewdley, p. xlix. (London, 1883), to have been found ' 100 years ago' at Button Oak. But that is over the Shropshire border in the north of the Forest. Ripple .... Pottery, stratum of black ashes, at Bow Farm, near the Severn [Allies, pp. 62-68]. For the supposed road see p. 213. Severn Stoke . . Coin of Magnentius [Allies, p. 291]. Fibula [Bozward, IVorc. Journal, 1889]. SoDDiNGTON-iN- In 1807, when the old mansion of the Blounts was demolished, Mamble there was found below it a pavement of thin bricks and many earthenware tubes as if for an aqueduct, and a quarter of a mile away a buried brick-kiln with 10,000 unused bricks in it [Gentle- mans Magazine, 1807, ii. 1 009 ; Allies, p. 147]. But no pot- tery or coins or other Roman objects are recorded ; the bricks and tubes were not seen by any competent authority, and Allies and others are perhaps rash in calling this the remains of a Roman villa. Tredington . . At Talton 5 coins, Julian (2), Valentinian I, Flavius Victor, Valentinian III (votis. xxx. mult, xxxx.) found 1861 [J. H. Bloom]. At Newbold-on-Stour, pottery and horns of red deer, found 1838 [Way, Catalogue of Gloucester Museum, Archaol. Institute Meeting, i860, p. 12]. Upton-on-Severn . Coins, vaguely recorded [Gough, Camden, ii. 47 1 ; hence Allies, p. 60, and others]. ;Stukeley, Itinerarium Curiosum, p. 69, put Ypocessa here, a place named in the list of the Ravenna Geographen. But he had no better reason than that one name begins with Up and the other with Yp. The name Ypocessa itself is probably misspelt, and the situation of the place wholly unknown. A fibula found here is in the Malvern Museum [Catalogue of Archaol. Institute Museum at Worcester, 1862, p. 9 ; private information]. Wichenford . . Two coins (Victorinus, Constans) [Allies, p. 149]. Worcester . . . Town : p. 203. „ near . Coin said to be of Julia, dau. of Augustus [Shrewsbury Chronicle, April, 18 15]. APPENDIX I : THE WORCESTERSHIRE CAMPS I have said nothing in the preceding pages about the earthen camps in Worcestershire. A good deal has been written about these camps, notably by the late Mr. H. H. Lines in the Birmingham and Midland Institute (Archaeological Section), 1877, pp. 11-22, in Berrow's Worcester Journal, October, 1890-January, 1891, and elsewhere, and attempts have been made to connect them with the operations of Ostorius Scapula against Caratacus about a.d. 50. But no kind of remains appears ever to have been found such as would justify these and similar speculations, and until remains are found the student of Roman Worcestershire must leave the camps alone. It is however extremely probable that they are for the most part far older than either Caratacus or the Romans. 220