Roman Interments at Scole

Extract

About ten years ago some labourers engaged in excavating gravel from a pit on the estate of Mr. A. Wood Crawshay, J.P., in the parish of Scole, Norfolk, brought to light a number of iron spear-heads, a quantity of fragmentary pottery, a small ornamented object of bronze, and several bones. No effort was made to discover the positions these various objects occupied in relation to each ether, but it was ascertained that they were all deposited in some trenches about six feet long and three feet wide, cut in the surface soil of the ground bordering the pit. Through the kindness of Mr. Crawshay, I was able to exhibit some of these relics at a meeting of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia, held at Norwich, on March 22nd, 1909, and the conclusion come to concerning them was that they represented interments of the Roman period. Six spear-heads were found, two being uninjured apart from corrosion, while the remaining four were broken, one having lost the whole of its blade.