twards, by High Toynton, Greetham, &c, to Waynflete, the
Roman Vain-ona; (4th) southward, by Dalderby, Haltham, &c., to Leeds
Gate, Chapel Hill, and there crossing the river Witham to Sleaford and
Ancaster, the Roman Causennae, situated on the great Roman Ermin Street.
This also was continued to another Roman Castrum, now Castor, near
Peterborough; (5th) south-west, by Thornton, &c., to Tattershall, locally
supposed to have been the Roman Durobrivae, and where traces of a Roman
camp still remain.

Besides these Roman _viae_ and Roman coins, quite an abundance of Roman
pottery has from time to time been unearthed, and fragments are
continually being found in gardens in the town. A collection of these,
probably cinerary urns, was preserved until quite recently in the library
of the Mechanics' Institute, where the writer has frequently seen them,
{7a} they varied in height from 8 inches to 18 inches. Unfortunately,
for lack of funds, that institution was broken up about 1890, the books
were stowed away in a room at the workhouse, a valuable collection, and
the urns were sold by the late Mr. Joseph Willson, who acted as sole
trustee. Other Roman relics have been fragments of mortars of white
clay, found on the site of the present union, one bearing the word
"fecit," though the maker's name was lost. Portions also of Samian ware
have been found, one stamped with a leopard and stag, another bearing
part of the potter's name, ILIANI; with fragments of hand-mills, fibulae,
&c. {7b} The present writer has two jars, or bottles, of buff coloured
ware, of which about a dozen were dug up when the foundations of the
workhouse were being laid in 1838, they are probably Samian, a friend
having exactly similar vessels which she brought from Cyprus. The writer
has in his possession the head of a porphyritic mallet which was found in
a garden in the south of the town a few years ago, it is probably Roman;
the handle, which would be of wood, had entirely disappeared; it is much
"pitted" through damp and age, is 6.5 inches long and weighs 3-lb. 9-oz.

[Picture: Hammer Head, found near the Wong, length 6.625-in., width
3.875-in. weight 3.5-lb.; of porphyry from the Cheviot region, Neolithic
period. The stone was probably part of a large boulder]

A discovery of further interesting Roman relics of another kind was made
in 1896. The owner of a garden near Queen Street, in the south-eastern
part of the town, was digging up