The Essex Chronicle Records 'In widening the road from Colchester to London at Lexden Hill the workmen have lately dug up a great variety of Roman urns, most of them in a mutilated state, containing a quantity of burnt bones and ashes. In two of the urns among the bones and ashes, were found two small but curious gold rings, each bearing a very minute and irregular device; both of which, together with some other Roman relics discovered at the same place, are now in the possession of the Rev George Preston of Lexden". <1><2>