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ON A ROMAN RING FOUND AT MILTONNEXT-
SITTINGBOURNE.
BY GEORGE PAYNE, E.S.A.
IN February 1889 relics of an interment were met
with during excavations for brickearth, in fields occupied
for the purpose by Messrs. "Wills and Packham,
at Milton-next-Sittingbourne. The site of the discovery
lies about two hundred yards to the right or
south of a footpath leading from the Milton National
Schools to Kemsley Downs, and about three hundred
yards to the north of the Roman cemetery, discovered
some years since at Bex Hill,* in Milton,
The workmen state that the discovery consisted of
a human skeleton, lying east and west, with head to
the west, accompanied by a glass vessel, which was
destroyed, a buckle of gilt bronze, an iron spear-head,
and a massive gold finger ring, set with a red carnelian,
on which is cut a winged Cupid driving a chariot drawn
by two horses, thence called in,Latin
a "big
