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Google's approximation of the location Description of institution: Evidently a now disappeared settlement, or perhaps a literal field. Aubrey describes an excavation here at the site:
About 1654
in Week-field in the Parish of Heddington digging up the ground deeper than the plough went, they found for a great way together, foundations of howses, hearthes, coles, and a great deal of Romane Coine, silver and brasse; whereof I had a pint: some little copper pieces no bigger than silver halfepence — quaere, if they were not the Roman Denarii. The pott in which a good deale was found, I had. I presented it to the Royal Society's Repositorie: it resembles an apprentice's earthen Christmas boxe. At Sherston hath severall times been found Roman Money in ploughing.
Images linked to this location: People associated with this location: Print Sources linked to this location: Mentioned - Wiltshire. The topographical collections of John Aubrey, 1659-70.