IV.
PERSONAL ORNAMENTS.
1. Hair pins, in great variety; more than 30 specimens have been found made usually of bone; with some of bronze, but these are much more slender. Pl. 11.
2. Bodkins or needles made of bone.
3. Fibulæ, and buckles in great variety.
4. Bracelets or armlets, and brooch.
5. Bronze studs or buttons, some flat, and others very convex.
6. Finger rings:—a. silver; b. yellow bronze; c. bronze, with iron wire; d. bronze, with open work on one side; e. fragment of one of wood; f. iron signet ring: device engraved upon a blue stone, a fawn coming out of a nautilus shell.
7. Combs made of bone, one much ornamented. Pl. 10, figs. 5, 6.
8. Beads of glass of various sizes, some large to suspend round the neck, others to string together upon a thread.
9. Bronze bracelet of twisted work.
COINS.
1. Coins found in the present excavations at Wroxeter.
2. Coins found at Wroxeter, at different times, and given to the Museum.
3. The coins found with a skeleton in the hypocaust.
4. Coining-mould of baked clay. Julia Domna.
CINERARY URNS.
1. Large red earthenware urn, containing human hones (burnt), inclosed in an outer urn of lead, which was brought from Wroxeter many years ago.
2. Another Cinerary urn of black pottery, containing burnt human bones, found in a field adjoining the cemetery, and outside the town walls. Purchased by the secretary.
3. A large Cinerary urn, found in the recent excavations, ten inches high, and thirty in circumference, almost entire, containing bones, but not human.—See pl. 13, fig. 2.
4. Cinerary urns in red and black pottery of various sizes, from 4 to 12 inches high. Some contained burnt human bones and unguent bottles.—(Cemetery.) Many small flask-shaped bottles were found, some broken, some entire, some which had evidently been exposed to heat. Oily matter was detected in one; hence they have been termed unguent bottles.—(Cemetery.)
V.
MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS.
Medicine Stamp, found at Wroxeter in 1808, by Mr. Upton; purchased from his family in 1859, by the late Beriah Botfield, Esq., M.P., who presented it to the Museum.
1. Oyster shells in great number; shells of some nut found in an oyster shell.
2. Remains of small animals and birds.
3. Nondescript articles in iron, shapeless masses of lead, innumerable fragments of pottery, bone, &c.
4. Fragments of horn and bone which have been cut with a saw or other tool.
5. Fragments of bone, which have been turned in a lathe.
6. Inscribed sepulchral stone with Latin inscription, partly legible. There has been a statue on the top.—(Cemetery.)
7. A skiff-shaped vessel in bronze, with round handle, and a lid which closed with a catch.
8. Several legs of the fighting cock, with very large natural spurs.
9. Roundels, formed chiefly from the bottoms of earthenware vessels, perhaps used in some game; others made with a hole in the centre.
10. Skulls of the dog; one, that of a dog of the mastiff kind, of an unknown species. Bones of horse, ox, roe, and red deer, (Cervus elaphus); also fragments of the horn of a species allied to the elk of Ireland, (Strongylocerus spelæus.) Very numerous remains of the wild boar, including bones of the hoof, jaw, and tusks.
Among other bones of the ox are some of a very large kind, now unknown in this country.
Also, the crania of the Bos longifrons, more than one bearing evident marks of the fatal blow of the axe on the forehead.
11. Specimens of mended pottery:—1. Samian ware. 2. Upchurch. 3. Romano-British pottery.
12. Slabs of stone for grinding or mixing colours, painters’ pallettes.
13. Specimen of Hepatic iron ore. Ditto of Barytes or heavy spar.
14. Iron tire of a wheel, 3ft. 3ins. in diameter, 1½ inch in breadth. Two iron hoops, supposed to have belonged to the nave of the same wheel.
15. Two hoops of another nave, with the wood remaining between them.