Note 69 — ITER ROMANUM. V.
Reading edition
I have several brass coins, found in the fields by Ryhall, in the neighbourhood of Brigcasterton; particularly a large
Nero
, of Corinthian brass; reverse,
VICTORIA AVGVSTI
: another; reverse, a victory
S. C.
a
Trajan
, of Corinthian brass; reverse,
CERES. S. C.
Maximian
, reverse,
GENIO POP. ROM.
Constantinus Aug.
reverse,
PRINCIPI JUVENTUT.
exergue PLN. percussa Londini Constans Felix temp. repar. Nerva.
Trajan
; reverse,
COS. IIII. P. P.
Claud Gothicus
.
Mr. Beaupre Bell gave me a fair Sev. Pertinax, middle brass, found in Tickencote lane.
I saw a silver denarius of Pompey, found in Castreton field, 1733, the first in second plate of Patin’s famil. Rom. Pompeia.
I have a middle-sized brass coin of Nero, found at Brigcasterton, S P Q R stamped on the neck. I saw a large Severus Pertinax, brass, found there, Mr. Foden’s. Dec. 7, 1731. Lord Ganesborough showed me a fair large brass Divo Antonino, reverse, the Antonine column, dug up in Exton church-yard.
Pickworth church, to the right, was burnt down, together with the then populous town, by the rebels in Henry the Seventh’s time; and all now lies in ruins. At the same time Hornfield and Hardwick demolished. Pickworth steeple, a very fine spire, and seen all round the country, was taken down about A. D. 1728, to build a sorry bridge at Wakerley. I saw the lower part of the steeple anno 1731, when it was pulled down to build a bridge by Casterton. There was a pretty church and an ancient one at Ingthorp, now turned into a dwelling-house.