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XXIV. A descriptive Outline of the Roman Remains in Norfolk, by Samuel Woodward, Esq., in a Letter to Hudson Gurney, Esq. V.P., F.R.S. accompanied by a Map of the County
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 June 2012
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Having done me the honour of exhibiting to the Society of Antiquaries in March 1824, a rough draft of a Map of Roman Norfolk, with other Plans which related to Norwich, I now beg leave to transmit to the Society through you a more finished Map, accompanied by a descriptive Outline of the Roman Remains in that county: and in so doing I cannot but suggest, that if others, conversant with antiquarian pursuits, would construct similar Maps of other counties of Great Britain, the whole might form the basis of a Map of Roman Britain, which is much wanted. The advantages resulting, would, I am convinced, fully compensate the labour; much light would be thrown upon the works of Gale, Horsley, Reynolds, and other learned Antiquaries, who have written on the Itinerary of Antoninus; and the early history of this country be placed in a much clearer point of view than it has hitherto been. The accurate Surveys which have been taken of every County have removed the obstacles which before impeded such an attempt; and these, combined with the geological researches which have of late years been made, particularly in our maritime counties, afford sure data for such an undertaking.
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page 358 note a Plate XXXI.
page 359 note b Garianonum, p, 13.
page 360 note c Horsley's Brit. Rom. p. 476.
page 362 note d Norfolk, vol. iv. p. 967.
page 363 note e Page 19.
page 363 note f This Station is in the County of Suffolk. It would be needless to apologise for its introduction here, as its natural connection with the subject of the present Outline renders, the notice of it imperative.
page 364 note g Gariononum, p. 29.
page 364 note h Ibid. p. 24.
page 365 note i Archæologia, vol. XXII. p. 422.
page 365 note j Reliquiæ Spelmannianæ, p. 156.
page 366 note k Page 547.
page 366 note l Page 412.
page 366 note m Page 156.
page 367 note n When the Map which illustrates this Paper was, with others relating to Norwich, exhibited at the Society of Antiquaries in 1824, it was accompanied with the following view of the IX Iter, exhibiting the plans assigned to the stations named in that Iter, by Horsley and Reynolds; to which is added another view of the line of road, the merits of which we should be glad to have investigated. 
page 368 note o An opinion is entertained that a road once existed running parallel with the present post road between Tasburgh and Scole, but more towards the east, and was the principal Roman road from Venta Icenorum, passing through Eye towards Ipswich. Of this road no trace exists in Norfolk; but there are remains of a Roman occupation in the parish of Billingford, in this line, where numerous antiquities, including urns, have been discovered. On the Suffolk side of the river in the parishes of Oakley, Broome, Hoxne, and Eye, these remains are particularly abundant.
page 369 note p Hist, of Embankment, p. 176.
page 369 note q Archæologia, vol. XIV. p. 5.
page 370 note r Norfolk, vol. V. p. 998.
page 371 note s MS. Papers.
page 371 note t Norfolk, vol. I. p. 298.
page 372 note u Archæologia, vol. XIII. p. 404.
page 372 note x Ibid. vol. XVI. p. 354.