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A NUMBER of discoveries of interest are recorded in the report of the archæological section of the North Staffordshire Field Club for the period 1938–39 (Trans. and Ann. Rep. N. Staffs. Field Club, 73, 1939). Among these may be mentioned a disk barrow, hitherto unrecorded, which was discovered by G. J. V. Bemrose, chairman of the section, on a hill slope overlooking the stream at Oakley. Further examination, in the course of which several well-patinated flints were found on the surface, confirmed the view that it was of the central monolith type, the site of the monolith being clearly discernible. The proximity of the Devil's Ring and Finger is considered significant, while it is pointed out that it is probable that Oakley Park drive is the site of a Romano-British road linking Chesterton (Mediolanum) with Rutunium and Uriconium. Further evidence of a Romano-British road comes from Madeley Old Manor Park, where a half-mile stretch of a ‘way’ has been identified. It forms part of a way, on which on a length known as Longford, between Wellington and Newport, an air photograph has shown a Roman ‘castra’ near Wall, superimposed on a British hill-fort and other earthworks, hitherto unknown. A Romano-British residence site at Park Springs, of which the excavation was begun by W. L. Hind in 1927, now shows that the corridor and rooms were paved with hard fired tiles, measuring 5 inches square by 1 inch thick. They had been surfaced by red slip before firing. The walls were plastered and decorated in fast colour-wash, which is still bright after sixteen centuries in damp, loamy soil. One room was decorated in various shades of green and yellow. Evidence points to more than one period of occupation.
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Recent Archæological Finds in Staffordshire. Nature 144, 936 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144936b0
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