ANTIQUITIES FOUND AT W'OODl'KRRY, OXON. 1^5

and Claudius Gothicus. A second brass of Nero was dis- covered in the beginning of 1842, in a plouglied field called Upper Statibrd Grove, near the line of the Roman road, the stones of which, the farmer, with little reverence for antiquity, was then removino;. Dui'ino; the continuance of the same operation, and not far from the same spot, scarcely a foot under the surface of the ground, the labourers came upon a human skeleton. It lay parallel to the Roman road, about forty yards from it, and was deposited north and south, the head towards the south, but presented nothing remarkable either in size or otherwise, being that of a person of low stature. In this part of the subject it should be mentioned, as con- nected with the neighbourhood, that a silver coin of the gens Plautia was picked up near a footpath, m an adjoining parish, a few months since ; and very lately, a third brass of Con- stantme, not far from the com'se of the Roman road through Beckley. Ilolton has [ifforded many specimens ; but the great- est discovery was made at Shotover, upon the estate of G. V. Drury, Esq., in the month of May, 1842, when 560 corns were at once disclosed by the Avheel of a waggon breaking the pot in which they had been deposited. They Avere given up to the proprietor. The consideration of ecclesiastical remains may not be thought to belong so properly to our pages as to a work dedi- cated expressly to that subject', but having been favoured with the use of the plates, some few notices respecting the objects they represent may not be unacceptable. Woodperry, now a hamlet of Stanton St. John, as has been already stated, appears originally to have been a distinct, though small, parish. By what means or at what period it became united to its neighbour, is unknown, nor have the records of the diocese of Lincoln, within Avliich it Avas once comprised, thrown any light upon the point. It is usual to commence topographical inquiries by a reference to the Norman Survey ; and a conjecture has been advanced that Wood})erry may be found noticed in that record under the designation of peregie, holden by Rogerius of the bishop of Bayeux, Waterperry being admitted to be described as pereivn. One reason for this idea, and that of but little weight, is, that Peregie occurs immediately after the mention of Fostel or Forest-hill ; it may be more to '■ Mr. Hussey's R. Road, ])[). 11, 12. in tlif: Neighlioiiiliood nrOxTini. ' Guide to Ihu Architectural Aiitiiiiiirics >; Eol. l.j(). a.