Once I was a clever boy learning the arts of Oxford... is a quotation from the verses written by Bishop Richard Fleming (c.1385-1431) for his tomb in Lincoln Cathedral. Fleming, the founder of Lincoln College in Oxford, is the subject of my research for a D. Phil., and, like me, a son of the West Riding. I have remarked in the past that I have a deeply meaningful on-going relationship with a dead fifteenth century bishop... it was Fleming who, in effect, enabled me to come to Oxford and to learn its arts, and for that I am immensely grateful.


Tuesday, 17 March 2026

A Roman soldier’s pay packet from Norfolk


Fox News reported last summer in another Roman coin hoard from Norfolk. This was discovered m in 2023 at 
Great Ellingham in southern central Norfolk.

It was also analysed by Dr Marsden, and he thinks it represents the contents of a soldier’s monthly pay packet of twenty five silver denarii. The coins are well preserved and had been issued by several Emperors. Their loss was dated to the period of the 160s to 170s
  

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