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Excavations at Verulamium, 1960: Sixth Interim Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

S. S. Frere
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The sixth season at Verulamium lasted a period of five weeks from 20th July to 24th August 1960. As the last full season of the current programme, it was designed to test one or two specific questions and to complete work already begun. Trenches were cut in insulae XIX and XXVIII in an attempt to define the south-east and south-west sides respectively of the suspected Claudian fort, but met with no success. In insula XIV a small area still outstanding was excavated down to the level of the Antonine fire: in insula XXI further work was done on building 2, to complete the plan and to salvage some painted wall plaster still remaining. In insula XXVII the stoke-hole, added perhaps as late as the early fifth century to building 2, room 15, was examined and trenches were cut to trace the further course of the fifth-century pipe-line. The main task for 1960, however, was to test the results of the proton-magnetometer survey carried out in 1959, by cutting sections across the line thus suggested for the ‘1955 Ditch’. This was done at two points, the first in insula VIII and the second just south-west of insula V, and the existence of the earthwork on the course predicted was confirmed. Later in the autumn the north-west side of the enclosure was defined by a further magnetic survey by Dr. M. J. Aitken.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 41 , Issue 1-2 , April 1961 , pp. 72 - 85
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1961

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page 72 note 1 Antiq. Journ. xl, pl. VII.

page 74 note 1 Antiq. Journ. xxxix, 8.

page 75 note 1 See Grace Simpson in Antiq. Journ. xxxvii, 29–42.

page 75 note 2 Ibid. xxix, 4, 6; xl, 9.

page 75 note 3 Ibid. xxxix, 16–17.

page 75 note 4 Ibid. xxxviii, 12.

page 75 note 5 Ibid. xl, 4–6.

page 75 note 6 Ibid. xxxvii, 6–7, below defences, insula XVII; ibid. xxxviii, 13, insula XXVII; in addition moulds have been recovered from a site in St. Michael's Street (insula XIX) by the staff of the Museum, and some fragments have been found in insula XXVIII, e.g. in the gully mentioned above.

page 77 note 1 Antiq. Journ. xl, pi. viii.

page 79 note 1 For the plan of this building see Antiq. Journ. xl, 14, fig. 6. The porch proved to project 4 ft. 6 in. from the corridor wall.

page 79 note 2 Above, p. 75.

page 79 note 3 Antiq. Journ.xl, 6.

page 79 note 4 Ibid. xxxviii, 9, with figs. 4 and 2; ibid. xl, fig. 3.

page 79 note 5 Ibid. xxxvii, 8–9, with pls. vii and viii.

page 79 note 6 As shown, for example, in ibid. xxxviii, 3, fig. 1.

page 80 note 1 Contrast with Antiq. fount, xl, 7, fig. 3.

page 80 note 2 Ibid. xl, 2–4, 21–24.

page 80 note 3 Ibid. xxxvi, 4–5.

page 80 note 4 This old hedge is marked as ‘centre-line of hedge’ near the Triangular Temple on R. E. M. and T. V. Wheeler, Verulamium, A Belgic and Two Roman Cities, pl. cxx.

page 80 note 5 See Antiq. Journ. xxxvi, pi. iv.

page 82 note 1 R. E. M. and T. V. Wheeler, Verulamium, A Belgic and Two Roman Cities, pp. 111–12, 186–90, and pl. cxx; Antiq. Journ. xxi, 271–98.

page 82 note 2 Wheeler, op. cit., p. 61 and pi. xxi.

page 82 note 3 Ibid., p. 122.

page 82 note 4 See Appendix, p. 84.

page 82 note 5 See plan, Antiq. journ. xl, 3, fig. 1.

page 83 note 1 , M. J., Antiq. Journ. xl, 21–24.Google Scholar

page 85 note 1 These are points X Y Z along the hedge which separates the large meadow 113 on the north-east side of Bluehouse Hill from the large field occupying the western segment of the walled town. The junction of this hedge with the city-wall is marked on Wheeler, Verulamium, pl. CXIX, 6½ in. from the south corner of the NW. Gate. X lies 110 ft. along this hedge from its junction with another fence which borders the town bank; Y is a tree 250 ft. from X, and Z a point 250 ft. from Y. AX = 371 ft. AY = 325 ft.; BY = 387 ft., BZ = 409 ft.; AB = 157 ft. 6 in.