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Caistor (st. Edmund's) in Norfolk County England History and GeographyCAISTOR (ST. EDMUND'S), a parish in the hundred of HENSTEAD, county of NORFOLK, 3¾ miles (S.) from Norwich, containing 164 inhabitants. The living is a rectory consolidated with the rectory of Marketshall, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £9, and in the patronage of Mrs. Dashwood. Caistor, though at present an inconsiderable village, was anciently one of the most flourishing cities of the Britons, and probably the residence of the kings of the Iceni: it was the Venta Icenorum of the Romans, and the principal station of that people in the territory of the Iceni, the present city of Norwich having gradually arisen out of its ruins. The walls enclose a square area of about thirty acres, within which foundations of buildings may be traced. Numerous Roman coins have been discovered, principally of Constantine, and a few years since, a bronze figure of a satyr, of very fine workmanship, about eight inches in length; but the most conspicuous Roman relic is a large fortified encampment, about a furlong south-west of Caistor: the whole space, including the rampart, exceeds thirty-two acres, and was capable of containing six thousand men: the north, east, and south sides exhibit large banks raised from a deep fosse, and the west side has one formed on the margin of the river Tees; in these are the vestiges of four gates. At each corner is an artificial mount; and on the western side the remains of a tower, thirty-three feet in circumference, are still visible. Within the area of the camp stands the church, the materials for building which were evidently taken from the ruins of the rampart. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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