TRANSACTIONS OF THE LEICESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS OF THE LEICESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY VOL. XVIII W. THORNLEY 6? SON Bowling Green Street, Leicester 1934 - 35 CONTENTS PAGE The 79th Annual Rep*t and Accounts 1933 ... i xxvii The 80th Annual Report and Accounts 1934 ... xxix xli List of Officers, Members, etc. ... ... ... xliii 1 Rules ... ... ... ... ... ... ... li Hi VOL. XVIII. PART I. THE OH/MANS OF THE NEWARKE AT LEICESTER By Florence E. Skillington ... ... ... ... 1 Editorial Postscript by S. H. Skillington ... ... 36 THE ROMAN SITES OF SOUTH-WEST LEICESTERSHIRE By Arthur J. Pickering, F.G.S. Parti. Venonae and Tripontium ... ... ... 41 ULVERSCROFT PRIORY By William Keay, F.R.I.B.A., and Margaret E. Keay 87 MEDIEVAL DEEDS RELATING TO ASHBY PARVA By Hugh Goodacre ... ... ... ... ... 95 AYLESTONE, THE DESCENT OF THE MANOR Erratum and Addendum By G. Keith Thomson, M.A., M.Litt. ... ... 101 THE CHURCH OF ST. PETER, HORNINGHOLD By Albert Herbert, F.R.I.B.A. ... ... ... 105 VOL. XVIII. PART II. THE ANGLIAN AND SCANDINAVIAN SETTLEMENT OF LEICESTERSHIRE By W. G. Hoskins ... ... ... ... ... 109 ULLESTHORPE OVERSEERS' ACCOUNTS By Hugh Goodacre ... ... ... ... ... 149 THE ROMAN SITES OF SOUTH-WEST LEICESTERSHIRE By Arthur J. Pickering, F.G.S. Part II. Mancetter, Sapcote, Barwell and Hinckley, with notes on adjacent sites ... 157 MELTON MOWBRAY LAY SUBSIDY By A. B. Clarke ... ... ... ... ... 195 MEDIEVAL COSSINGTON A Narrative based upon the Researches of the late George Francis Farnham, M.A., F.S.A. By S. H. Skillington ... ... ... ... ... 203 Architectural Notes on All Saints Church By Anthony Herbert, A.R.I.B.A. ... ... 250 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE THE COLTMANS OF THE NEWARKE AT LEICESTER Bust of Elizabeth Coltman ... ... ... ... 1 The Coltman Houses from the North-East ... ... 4 John Coltman's House—East Front, Entrance Hall and First Floor Landing ... ... ... ... 20-21 Leicester Castle, St. Mary's Church and the Newarke in 1861 ... ... ... ... ... 37 THE ROMAN SITES OF SOUTH-WEST LEICESTERSHIRE (Part I) Plate I. High Cross—from North, from South ... 41 ,, II. Stukeley's Engraving of High Cross 48 ,, III. Reconstructed Pottery and Bird's-eye View of High Cross ... ... ... 52 ,, IV. Painted Pottery and Iron Objects ... 53 ,, V. Tripontium—Low Level ... ... ... 72 „ VI. Coarse Pottery—High Cross ... ... 81 „ VII. „ „ Tripontium High Level 82 ,, VIII. „ „ Tripontium Low Level 83 ,, IX. Samian Ware—Tripontium ... ... 84 ,, X. ,, ,, ,, ... ... 85 ULVERSCROFT PRIORY South-West View ... ... ... ... ... 87 North-West View and Guest House ... ... ... 90 Architectural Plans ... ... ... ... ... 92 Conjectural Restoration ... ... ... ... ... 93 MEDIEVAL DEEDS RELATING TO ASHBY PARVA Ashby Parva Church ... ... ... ... ... 95 CHURCH OF ST. PETER, HORNINGHOLD Exterior ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 105 Interiors ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 107 Architectural Plan ... ... ... ... ... 108 ILLUSTRATIONS—continued. PAGE ANGLIAN AND SCANDINAVIAN SETTLEMENT OF LEICESTERSHIRE Maps to Illustrate Settlement 113, 116, 126, 127, 135 ULLESTHORPE OVERSEERS' ACCOUNTS Reproduction of an Ullesthorpe Overseers' Account Book 149 THE ROMAN SITES OF SOUTH-WEST LEICESTERSHIRE (Part II) Plate I. Hinckley Bust ... ... ... ... 157 ,, II. Mancetter—Looking South; looking North 158 „ III. Calver Hill and Parish Gravel Pit— Sapcote ... ... ... ... 164 ,, IV. Metal and Bone Objects, Rubstones and Box Tiles ... ... ... 165 „ V. High Close Sandpit—Barwell ... ... 177 „ VI. Bronze Age Urn; Ancient Kiln—Barwell 182 ,, VII. Jar of Dark Grey Ware; Beaker of Castor Ware ... ... ... ... 188 „ VIII. Coarse Pottery—Sapcote ... ... ... 191 ,, IX. ,, ,, Lychgate Lane ... ... 192 ,, X. Plain and Decorated Samian Ware ... 193 „ XI. Hinckley Bust ... ... ... ... 194 COLOURED PLATE Coloured Wall Plaster from Site of Roman Villa, Sapcote ... ... ... ... ... ... 194 MEDIEVAL COSSINGTON Cossington Church: — From South-East ... ... ... ... ... 203 Interior, from North-West ... ... ... 204 ,, Rood Loft Doorway ... ... ... 205 Nave and Chancel, Sedilia and Piscina ... ... 212 Easter Sepulchre and Tomb ... ... ... 213 Effigy in North Aisle ... ... ... ... 220 Map to Illustrate Medieval Cossington ... ... ... 249 Cossington Church—Architectural Plans ... ... 252 THE LEICESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY THE 79th ANNUAL REPORT 1933 In submitting their Report for 1933, your Committee are able to say that, in spite of exceptional difficulties, the Society continues to be in a healthy condition. It is true that the second part of volume xvii of Transactions could not be made ready for publi­ cation before the end of the year; but, if the contents of this were to be adequately prepared and edited, the delay was quite unavoidable. For the first time since its formation, the Publi­ cations Committee had to carry out its duties without the help and inspiration of Mr. Farnham; Mr. Albert Herbert did a great deal of work during, and in preparation for, the Royal Archse- logical Institute's visit to Leicester and the county in July; Mr. S. H. Skillington was for several months busily engaged in editing and seeing through the press the Historical Guide to Leicester which, in collaboration with Mr. Colin Ellis, he wrote for the use of the British Association, whose annual meeting was held at Leicester in September; and Mr. Keith Thomson was occupied for a long time in the exacting task of editing and bringing out the sixth volume of Mr. Farnham's Leicestershire Medieval Village Notes, and in classifying the numerous docu­ ments and other historical materials bequeathed by Mr. Farnham to the Leicester Museum Muniment Room. Members who take these facts into consideration will not feel disposed to blame the sub-committee for neglect or careless procrastination. It was felt to be right, out of respect to Mr. Farnham's memory, to cancel the first (January) Bi-monthly Meeting on the Society's programme. During the rest of the year, the following ladies and gentlemen, and a Californian learned institution, were elected to membership : — In March:— Mrs. Catherine Mary Ellis, Woodclose, Quorn, Loughborough Mr. A. T. Shorthose Smith, Fernleigh, Syston, Leicester 11. LEICESTERSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY In April:— Mr. Norman S. Catlow, Kingsthorpe, Westminster Road, Leicester In May:— Mr. A. S. Gray, 139 Knighton Road, Leicester Mr. C. G. Gardiner, Grange Cottage, Lindley In June:— Mrs. G. E. Pochin, Three Ways, Ashfield Road, Leicester In July:— Mr. Roy Smith, 6 Waterloo Street, Leicester. Mr. Harry Scott, Sanvey Gate,- Leicester In September:—The Rev. S. R. Pocock, The Rectory, Peckleton, Leicester Mr. J. H. Proctor, Wyndham Avenue, Melton Mowbray In October :— Mr. William Austin, The Pines, Elms Road, Leicester In November:—The Henry E. Huntingdon Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California In the course of the year, nineteen members resigned, chiefly because of the stringency of the times, and we have to regret the loss by death of Mr. George Francis Farnham, Lord Aberconway, Sir Maurice Levy, Miss M. E. Musson, Mr. F. N. Fosbrooke, Mr. Charles Kempson, Mr. C. S. Robinson, Mr. H. C. Snow and Mr. C. Stuart Thomson. The short memoir of Mr. Farnham that is printed below has been written by Mr. S. H. Skillington, who was closely and continuously associated with him throughout the period of his active connection with the Society. George Francis Farnham, M.A., F.S.A. My purpose in writing this brief memoir is to relate the principal events of Mr. Farnham's life, with such passing comments as will, I hope, assist readers to form a true conception of the man as he was. Any attempt at completeness, even on a small scale, would be futile; but I may be able to add a little that is significant to what has been said by Colonel Martin and Mr. Keith Thomson in the second part of volume xvii of the Society's Transactions, which is now on the point of being issued to members. George Francis Farnham, for many years leader of the Society and Chairman of its General Committee, was born on the REPORT 1.11. 9th of September, 185^, and died on the 7th of January, 1933. He was the second and only surviving son of Edward Basil Farnham, of Quorndon, now called Quorn, Leicestershire, and his wife, Gertrude Emily, second daughter of Sir William Cradock Hartopp, baronet, of Freeby, in the county of Leicester, and Four Oaks Park, Warwickshire. Edward Basil Farnham, who was a magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant of the county, and a major in the Leicestershire Yeomanry, was born in the last year of the eighteenth century and died in 1879. He represented in Parlia­ ment the old Northern Division of Leicestershire from 1837 until 1859, when he retired for reasons of health. Mrs. Farnham, who was much younger than he was, survived him for many years. Quorn (or Quorndon) House, which eventually came into the possession of their second son, who never married, though not so large as it was originally, may still be described as a spacious and dignified mansion standing in extensive grounds. Built in 1820, it occupies a site very near to that of the Over Hall, the ancient Quorndon residence of the senior branch of the family, which, as we shall see, is a very old one. After being under a tutor at Brighton, George Francis Farnham was sent to Eton, whence he proceeded to Brazenose College, Oxford, where he took his degree in classics. During the next few years, in which he had time to look round, he increased his knowledge of the world, and of the topography and country houses of Leicestershire, by taking part in the social activities