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Report on Excavations at Verulamium in 1934

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

A. W. G. Lowther
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During the time that the excavation of the theatre was being carried out, the investigation of insula XVI, immediately west of it, was begun, and was completed after some three months' work.

The insula, a rectangle measuring 300 ft. by 160 ft. (with its greater length stretching from east to west) is bounded by roads on three sides, and by the metalled space surrounding the theatre on its fourth, or eastern, side. Cross-trenches showed the south road to be 29 ft., and the north road 18 ft., in width; the west road had been at least 29 ft. wide, but, owing to soil having been denuded from this higher part of the site, the exact width of this road was not determined by either of the two trenches dug across it (plan, pl. xxv).

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Research Article
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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , January 1937 , pp. 28 - 55
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1937

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page 20 note 1 In describing the work, for simplicity the end of the insula nearest the theatre is referred to as the ‘east’ end. Actually, its direction is more ‘northeast’ than east.

page 20 note 2 The debris in the robber trenches contained some evidence as to the treatment of the building above foundation-level. Mosaic tesserae (all either white or dark brown) and coloured wall plaster (dark red and deep olive-green were the only colours) were present in large quantity.

page 20 note 3 Kindly identified by Mr. Derek Allen, see list of coins (c).

page 30 note 1 The period of this rebuild agrees, in date, with the final period of the theatre alterations (Period IV), in which it was enlarged considerably.

page 31 note 1 Since this Report was written, excavations at the site of the Harlow temple in Essex (during 1936) have shown that it possessed a similar enclosing colonnade.

page 33 note 1 Coins from the late fourth-century ‘black’, L1:

page 35 note 1 For references to the Lydney and other examples, see under description of finds.

page 36 note 1 ‘A “Romano-Celtic” Temple near Harlow, Essex, and a note on the type’, by Wheeler, R. E. M., Antiq. Journ. viii, 303Google Scholar.

page 36 note 2 J.R.S. xxiv, 2, p. 213 and fig. 8.