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XIV.—Excavations on the site of the Roman city at Silchester, Hants, in 1891; with a Note on the animal remains found during the excavations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2012

George E. Fox Esq.  and
Herbert Jones Esq.
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The plan of operations decided upon last year has been pursued without change during the season just past. It may be remembered that Insula I., partly explored in 1890, is traversed at its southern extremity by a modern road, which passes completely across the site of the city. All the ground to the north of this road was examined last year, but the small section south of it still remained untouched. One task was, therefore, to complete our researches in Insula I.; the other, there being ample funds for the purpose, to work out two more insulæ.

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Archaeologia , Volume 53 , Issue 1 , 1892 , pp. 263 - 288
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1892

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page 265 note a This fragment of marble, as well as the second example found in Insula II. is possibly, from its structure, a variety of the marble now known as Campan Vert, the product of quarries near Bagnières de Bigorre, in the Pyrenees. Pieces of marble much resembling Campan Vert have been found in France, amongst ruined Roman buildings in the Commune of Allones, about a league from Le Mans. Bulletin monumental, 3, 1837, p. 338Google Scholaret seq.

page 269 note a See Lapidarium Septentrionale, 303, and Descriptive Catalogue of Antiquities at Alnwick Castle, 144.

page 271 note a Journal of the British Archaeological Association, xxvii. 327Google Scholar.

page 271 note b Ibid, xxvii. 514.

page 271 note c Archaeologia Cambrenis (1846), i. 286Google Scholar.

page 278 note a A somewhat similar arrangement may be seen in the hypocaust in the south wing of house No. 1, Insula I.

page 280 note a As an example may be mentioned another such column 2 feet 10 inches in total height found in the ruins of a villa at Holcombe, Devon, in 1870. This had been used as the support to a stone table inserted in the walls of a room at one angle. A column still shorter than the Holcombe example is preserved at Gloucester.

page 282 note a Pompeiananim Antiquitatum Historia, etc. i. 8., and Corpus Inscriptionum, Latinarum, iv. 1136.

page 284 note a Amongst the pottery was one small jar witli the word “minvtioni ” scratched in very distinct letters round the upper part under the rim. It was found in pit A, Insula III.

page 287 note a Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons.

page 288 note a Excavations in Cranborne Chase, i. 172Google Scholar; ii. 223.