Note 74 — ITER ROMANUM. V.
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Roman coins are found at Thistleton, near Post Witham, and at Market Overton: two large
tumuli
in a valley, near a division-dike, on that beautiful plain called Saltby heath.
I saw a fine brass Alexander, Roman; reverse, PROVIDENTIA, a Genius with a cornucopia and ear of corn.
A mile off Stretton, between Stamford and Grantham, between Stretton and Market Overton, is a place called the Holmes, where they find vast quantities of Roman coins. Mr. Parker, supervisor, gave me several, of the low empire: after a shower of rain, on the ploughed ground, they find them plentifully. No doubt but this was a Roman town. I viewed it with Mr. Baron Clark, of Scotland, May 30, 1733: it is a villa, or shepherd’s town, upon a delightful plain: there is an old well, which is new scoured, and the foundation of a wall that inclosed a kind of a court: it is near Thistleton.
Mr. William Annis gave me a brass Magnentius, found at Honington; reFELICITAS REIPUELICÆ.