The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon
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ISBN13: 9781458865656
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...and choppers, a weight, a key, some fibulae and buckles, and several hair-pins, and other small personal ornaments of this kind; two spears, and parts of weapons, with a considerable quantity of pottery, and a certain number of coins. The latter are always found scattered about. We are often tantalised by finding mere fragments of what might have given us the most important information relating to the occupiers of these villas. Such are the fragments of inscriptions on the walls found at Woodehester. Inscribed stones were found within the quadrangle of the villa at Pitney, but they also proved mere fragments, one of them having the words: --CHAP. VII. PATER PATRI SANC The other, which appears to have been a sepulchral inscription, and to commemorate probably some member of the household who had been buried in the court, had the imperfect inscription: --vixi SIN TRIGINTA qyx Capi NONO A The most interesting portion of the villas, as they now remain, is, however, the tesselated pavements. These are beautiful as works of art, and interesting for the subjects they represent; and they must have been the result of immense labour and great skill. These tesselated pavements were not confined to the country villas, but were used in the better mansions in the towns, and examples have been found in London, Cirencester, Gloucester, Caerleon, Caerwent, Kenchester, Leicester, York, Aldborough, Lincoln, Colchester, Canterbury, Dorchester, &c. Some of those found in London, Circencester, and Leicester, are of very superior execution. As I have stated before, these pavements are formed with a number of small tesserae, or cubes, set into a fine cemeut, and arranged in patterns or subjects, somewhat in the manner of Berlin wool patterns; but in the pavements the cubes are o...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458865656 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458865657 |
| Weight | 1.48 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.02 In |
| List Price | $27.55 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 460 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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