Newark was certainly raised from the neighbouring Roman cities, and has been walled about with their remains: the northern and eastern gate, still left, are composed of stones seemingly of a Roman cut; and not improbably the Romans themselves had a town here; for many antiquities are found round about it,[94] especially by the Foss side, which runs quite through the town. My friend the reverend Mr. Warburton, of this place, gave me a coin or two dug up here; and likewise this further information, that lately a gentleman (Mr. Holden) digging to plant some trees by the Foss road side, discovered four urns lying in a strait line, and at equal distances: they were soon broke in pieces by the workmen, imagining to find treasure therein: in one there was only a rude piece of brass, about the bulk of a small walnut, half melted down, with a bit of bone and some of the ashes sticking in the surface thereof, amidst the other burnt bones and ashes: he conjectured that it was a _fibula_ belonging to the habit of the dead: there were square earthen beads in others, which seem to be British: in another was a small brass _lar_ about an inch and half long, but much consumed by rust: he told me likewise a pot of Roman money was found at Carlton-scrope near them. There are two fine stone crosses at Newark: the market-place is a spacious square: the church is very large and handsome, with a very high steeple.[95] [Illustration: 90 _A Prospect of_ Ad Pontem _upon the Eminence. A Mile South on the Foss. Sep. 7. 1722._ _W. Stukeley delin._ a. _Old work Spring._ b. _the Foss_ c. _a Tumulus_ RR. _the Roman City._ _E. Kirkall Sculp._] [Sidenote: +Ad Pontem.+] [Sidenote: TAB. XC.]