Roman urns, coins, and keys at Colville Hall (EHER 4358)

Within a circuit of 1/2 a mile of Colville Hall, remains from the 1st-4th centuries, including keys, urns containing bones, and coins, were recorded as having been found in 1848.

Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import: Roman Remains were found within a circuit of a half mile of Colville Hall, including coins from the 1st to the 4th century AD. Keys and urns containing bones are recorded to have been found in 1848. Nothing further is known of these discoveries, but they seem to indicate a Roman house or houses in this area. <1> - <3> In about 1846 R. Judd, the farmer at Colville Hall, found pottery including lamps and urns containing burnt bones with coins from Nero to Gratian, fragments of tiles, and several keys. <4> The keys of unusual pattern. In 1955 potsherds (possibly Roman) were found in fields 300 yards south-west of the church. <5> March 1950. Field survey. No evidence of Roman occupation was discovered in the area recorded to have produced Roman finds in 1848. <6> May 1976. Field survey. According to farm workers at Colville Hall, the traditional findspot of the 19th century Roman finds was not known, nor was there any knowledge of the 1955 finds the fields are at present under cultivation and no other finds were made. <7>