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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...pyramid of steps was doubtless noticed by the members as they passed it on their journey out to Scarle. The next place to be visited was Mr. Cecil Smith Woolley's house in South Collingham. It has been known to most local antiquaries that Mr. Woolley has for some time past taken great pains in the investigation of the site of the Roman station of Crocolana at Brough, four miles distant from Newark on the Fosse Road, and twelve from Lincoln. The guests assembled in Mr. Woolley's garden, where the treasures he has unearthed were displayed on a long table. He proceeded to describe these in a very interesting address, which, to some extent, will be found embodied in a separate paper in the present volume of Transactions. At the close of Mr. Woolley's address, he very csiderately provided tea for the visitors, for ' unanimous vote of thanks was accorded him. The party then proceeded on the return j Newark, visiting the site of Crocolana station on there. Before quitting Collingham it may be well t that in Magna Brittania, and possibly in other is stated that in very ancient days, St. Ebl convent here, and that she and her nuns disfigui selves by cutting off their lips and noses throuj the barbarous Danes. The legend, however, regards Collingham, seems to be without any-at foundation, and the paragraph concludes by sayi _., "The Collingham where the chaste women lived was a town in Scotland and the nunnery was a cell in the Abbey of Durham." The misconception no doubt arose from a confusion between the names of Collingham and Coldingham in Berwickshire, where there was a monastery" with which St. Ebba was associated, and gave her name to St. Abb's Head, near by. The monastery was destroyed by fire A.D. 679, and St. Ebba herself...