More information : In a meadow adjoining CHRISTIAN FIELDS, known by the name of the TOAD'S HOLE PIECE, have been recently found a considerable quantity of human bones, various pieces of earthenware, some of which are Roman, a stone bowl or dish perhaps used for grinding corn, a stone ball, fragments of weapons including the head of a pike or halberd and several horseshoes pierced for nails at the top as well as the sides. The objects were discovered nearly four feet below the surface in a peaty soil, amongst and covered by great quantities of roots and decaying branches. [Illustration shows parts of an inscribed mortarium, a dish and jar and the 'halberd'.] (1) The finds were made in 1804, 1811 and 1816. Toad's Hole piece is near Pores Mill. (2)
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