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XIX.–Excavations at Caerwent, Monmouthshire, on the Site of the Romano-British City of Venta Silurum, in the year 1906.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2011

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The excavations of 1906 occupied a comparatively short period, from the middle of July until the end of September, and were carried on entirely upon land belonging to Viscount Tredegar, F.S.A., President of the Oaerwent Excavation Fund Committee. The first portion of the time was spent in the exploration of a building to the nortli of the amphitheatre (Block Kn) and of the mound within and parallel to the north city wall. In Block Kn no discoveries of any special interest were made, and its plan may best be published when the examination of this portion of the mound is completed, which will probably be during the present summer.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1907

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page 451 note a Archaeologia, lix. 112, and pl. xGoogle Scholar.

page 451 note b Archaeologia, xxxvi. 425, and pl. xxxiiiGoogle Scholar.

page 452 note a The plan is the work of Mr. F. G. Newton, who is also responsible for the other plates. I am indebted to Mr. W. H. St. John Hope for help in working out the complicated changes which the house has undergone.

page 452 note b The east wall of this house has two footings.

page 453 note a The prolongation eastwards of its south wall, indicated in the plan, has nothing else to correspond with, it, and what it represents is uncertain.

page 455 note a See Archaeologia, lix. 109, fig. 10Google Scholar.

page 455 note b The existence of the south wall is merely assumed; but the start of the east wall from the south, and, further north, the trench made for the previous excavation of its stones, were traced.

page 457 note a Possibly at the west end of the north side, though there is no respond on the east to the small projection on the west.

page 461 note a At the end of this is a large sandstone block, perhaps one pier of a gateway.

page 462 note a Proceedings of the Clifton Antiquarian Club, v. pl. xviii. fig. b.

page 462 note b Archaeologia, lvi. 712, especially fig. 3Google Scholar.