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Title: The Victoria history of the county of Nottingham;
Identifier: cu31924088434703 (find matches)
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Page, William, 1861-1934, ed
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: London (Constable)
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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A HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE One of the earliest and certainly the fullest description of the place comes from Stukeley, who visited Willoughby—or Margidunum, as he believed it to be—in 1722:— When arrived over against Willoughby on the wold on the right, Upper and Nether Broughton on the left, you find a tumulus on Willoughby side of the road, famous among the country people : it is called Cross Hill ... the name of Broughton set me to work to find the Roman town . . . after some time I perceived I was upon the spot, being a field called Herrings . . . Here they said had been an old city called Long Billington . . . The soil is perfectly black, though all the circumjacent land be red, especially north of the valley upon the edge of the hill and where most antiquities are found. Richard Cooper, aged 72, has foimd many brass and silver coins here; there have been some of gold. Many mosaic pavements have been dug up : my landlord, Gee of Willoughby, says he has upon ploughing met with such for 5 yds. together, as likewise coins, pot-hooks, fire-shovels and the like utensils, and many large brass coins which they took for weights, ounces and half-ounces, but upon trial found them somewhat less. Broad stones and foundations are frequent upon the sides of the Foss. The ground naturally is so stiff a marl that at Willoughby town they pave their yards with stones fetched from the Foss Way. At Over and Nether Broughton and Willoughby too the coins are so frequent that you hear of them all the country round.
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Fig. 4.—Plan of the Site of Vernemetum (From tie Ordnance Survey) "'Iti„. Cur 106, with plan on pi. 91 ; see also Dickinson, .f„tif. i„ Nott!. i, 87, who identifies Verne- metum here, and Anttq. xxxvui, 296. 18

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