Monument record IKL 026 - Mitchell's Hill, Icklingham (Roman)

Roman (& Sax) inhumations from Mitchell's Hill Presumably mostly found during gravel digging.

1851: J Warren states that he had many principally Rom antiquities from the site - "Skeletons are sometimes found there and many very large nails ... sometimes Roman pottery... a few Saxon antiquities". His finds include 2 twisted wire bracelets, coin of Faustina & bracelets (S1).

Also (in ? Evans Collection) in OXFAS (The Warren Collection was sold to Evans) is a Rom spoon and 13 Rom coins (S2,S4).

1878: Prigg records (& excavated?) " a late Roman interment at Mitchell Hill" having iron coffin nails (S5). A `Romano-Saxon' pot forms part of the Prigg Collection in Moyses Hall Museum. Another is in the Ashmolean Museum "from a grave at the E end of the cemetery" (S2,S3).

Also Palaeolithic, Bronze Age & Saxon records.