More information : Roman Antiquities (GS) found at various times (TI) (1-2)
"WANSTED:.... Here appears to have been a Roman villa ... (see TQ 48 NW 36) ... in the year 1715, as the then Sir Richard Child's gardeners were digging holes, for planting an avenue of trees ... they discovered ... the ruins of some brick foundations. Some years after, upon making further improvements, the workmen found many sherds of broken pots, or fragments of urns, of different kinds of earth: some brown, some white &c, but all of a coarse clay; many pieces of bricks, which proved there had been a building there; & many calcined human bones, teeth etc. There was found here a silver medal; and a copper one of the Emperor Valeus: and another, of copper, generally esteemed to be of the Constantine age". (3)
As above [part of]:one of the coins was of Allestus. (4)
As above [bare ref to T.C.6](a). As above [ref to T.C.1](b) & (c) (5)
TQ 416869 Roman cremations and structure in Wanstead Park. From the description given by (4) this structure, possibly a brick mausoleum containing cremations, should be placed on the slight spur south of the ponds in the Park and adjoining the north east edge of what was Wanstead Flats. The site should lie in the area of Arran Drive and Clavering Road. (6)
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