IX.—New Points in the History of Roman Britain, as illustrated by Discoveries at Warwick Square, in the City of London

Alfred Tylor, Esq. F.G.S., &c.

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IX.—New Points in the History of Roman Britain, as illustrated by Discoveries at Warwick Square, in the City of London

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Alfred Tylor, Esq. F.G.S., &c.

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The object of this Paper is to describe certain Roman remains discovered in the year 1881 during extensive alterations on the premises of Messrs. J. Tylor and Sons (of which firm the writer is a member) in Warwick Square, adjoining the last of the three successive Roman walls of London, and near one of the gates of that wall (Newgate), and to draw therefrom certain conclusions as to the state in which Britain was found by the Romans, and the nature and object of their occupation.

Type: Research Article
Information: Archaeologia , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , 1884 , pp. 221 - 248

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261340900000837 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1884

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^{page 222 note a} The site passed to the College of Physicians in 1667, and afterwards to the Tylor family in 1827. It adjoins property which belongs to the Church, and has been let at the same rent for 600 years, fines being taken.

^{page 227 note b} See MSS. in Record Office, 15.

^{page 223 note a} So named by Tylor, A., Geol. Soc. Quart. Journ. 1869, vol. xxv. p. 96Google Scholar.

^{page 223 note b} Evans's Stone Implements, p. 525.

^{page 223 note c} Discovered by S. B. J. Skertchley in 1865.

^{page 223 note d} A survival of the form of bow-drill, or fire-making drill.

^{page 224 note a} For leaden coffins and ossuaria, see Smith, Roach, Collectanea, 1854, vol. iii. p. 46Google Scholar, and 1880, vol. vii. p. 170. Cochet, La Normandie Souterraine, Rouen, 1854, and Mémoire sur les Cercueih de Plomb dans l'Antiquité et au Moyen Age, Rouen, 1870–71.

^{page 244 note b} Found at “1 and 7 ” on the plan.

^{page 226 note a} E. Freshfield, Esq. F.S.A. drew the attention of antiquaries to this fact.

^{page 227 note a} A corruption of Fludgate or “Fleet ” Gate.

^{page 228 note a} I consider hereafter fully the precise point, that the tin from Cornwall was conveyed to Brading Harbour, where larger ships could be loaded dry at low water in Vectis (the Isle of Wight).

^{page 228 note b} Elton, Origins of English History (1882). [He distinguishes the tin trade with Cornwall from that with the Cassiterides, which was of a much higher antiquity, p. 37.—H.S.M.]

^{page 229 note a} Probably on the Egyptian system of working gold into wires and soldering with the blow-pipe.

^{page 232 note a} Roman remains are rare at Beading, but in laying pipes some pieces of Roman pottery have been found.

^{page 233 note a} With-gara-burh, Saxon.

^{page 234 note a} Also Geol. Mag. 1872, p. 487.

^{page 234 note b} Also during and some time after the Glacial Epoch the Baltic was dry and the amber-bearing pines drew on what is now the sea-bed. The Solent was also dry, and Spain and Ireland united, forming a real Celto-Iberian period, when area and height of sea and land differed much from the present — Tylor, A., G.S.Q.J. 1869, vol. xxv. p. 9Google Scholar.

^{page 235 note a} So named by Tyler, A., G.S.Q.J. 1868, vol. xxiv. p. 105Google Scholar.

^{page 236 note a} See Tacitus respecting a British, prince who amassed great treasures by transporting metals to the Channel coast from the Mendips.

^{page 263 note b} The name of Portus Hamonis near Porchester has an aspect as of a foreign trading port. There may have been a foreign settlement there to match that on the Seine, or between the Seine and Atheic rivers. Ptolemy writes of Trisantonis, probably the Celtic name for the original town Antonis situated near where Southampton now stands, the Celtic Tre becoming Latin Tris in error.

^{page 237 note a} When the termination briga appears in the Celtic name of a place, it means always a town on the bank of a river or estuary. It is often changed into bridge.

^{page 237 note b} See a literal translation from the Greek of Diodorus in Appendix B.

^{page 237 note c} The maps in the Latin Ptolemy, 1525. The groyne at Sandown was made previously to 1670.

^{page 238 note a} A remarkably marked ingot of lead Las been found in the Isle of Wight.

^{page 240 note a} There is a line collection of Roman remains from Caistor at the Dowager Lady Huntly's at Orton-Longueville, about three miles from Caistor.

^{page 240 note b} This specimen is in the British Museum.

^{page 245 note a} Cohen, H., Monnaies Frappées sous l'Empire Romain, vols. i–viii. 1860–1868Google Scholar.

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