^{page 338 note 1} The seventh season of work directed by the first-named writer for the Department of the Environment and Wickford Archaeological Society. For Interim Reports see H.M.S.O., Annual Report, and Trans. Essex Archaeol. Soc, passim.

^{page 338 note 2} This is probably a vicus. See Rodwell, W. J., Antiq. Journ. 1 (1970), 275.Google Scholar

^{page 338 note 3} Large quantities of similarly burnt tile have been found in deposits of building debris resulting from a late fourth-century fire.

^{page 339 note 1} J.R.S., xxxix (1949), 115, no. 10.Google Scholar

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^{page 340 note 3} Dr. Jocelyn M. C. Toynbee kindly discussed with the present writer the dating and significance of these letter-forms, and supplied the references given in the next two footnotes.

^{page 340 note 4} Papathanasopoulos, Athens Annals of Archaeology, ii (1969), 15, pl. 1. The composition shows a ten-spoked wheel with Apollo's lyre and name at the centre and each of the nine Muses in one of the radial panels.Google Scholar

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