Note 94 — ITER ROMANUM. V. (continued 2)

Mr. Twells of Newark sent me four Roman coins dug up in the fields by Newark; a Magnentius, pretty fair; reverse, P. Antoninus Pius; two large Trajans, but defaced.

I guess Newark was built in the later Roman times, for its commodiousness upon the Trent, and exhausted the neighbouring Brough: both being destroyed by the plundering Danes, perhaps were repaired in after-ages, and called Newark.

My cousin, Edmund Dickenson esq. gave me a large brass Verus found in Newark fields, 1729, obliterated; an Hadrian found there.

Oct. 7. 1731, I satisfied myself that this was the long-sought-for episcopal see called Sidnacester.

I saw a gold Gratian, reverse, VICTORIA AUG. G. found at Thoroton; in my brother Collins’s possession. The rev. Mr. Guy, of Long Benington, says they find Roman coins in the fields thereabouts.