A Letter containing an account of Antiquities, &c. Philosophical Collections. Numb. 4.
IN turning over my Papers, I found Notes of some∣thing I formerly writ to Mr. Oldenburg, and which I believed was lost; it being sent much about the time of his death▪ They relate to certain Antiquities, which have, for ought I know, escaped the more curious Anti∣quaries of this and the last Age, when that Study was much more in credit: But we shall treat of them here only in the relation they may have to the advancement of Natural Philosophy and Arts.
1. Roman Vrnes are found in very many places throughout the whole Kingdom; but the different work∣manship of these Vessels, their composition, and places where they made them, have been little that I know of taken notice of by any. I have observed what fol∣lows of these matters:
Here then are found at York, in the road or Roman-street without Mickle-gate; and likewise by the River