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6.08) 6.178.99 5,18 6.27 8,33
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THE ROMAN RUINS AT ST. ALBANS.
REMARKABLE EXCAVATIONS.
FOURTEEN CENTURIES SECRET REVEALED NEAR LONDON.
The meadows by the Ver at St. ↑ flanking tower. The other tower re-¦ mediaval dwellings. There is proof Albans, which have concealed for mains to be excavated. The protec- of one or even two rebuildings, and fourteen centuries or so the remains tion of a gateway by towers of this you can see exactly how the build- of the Roman city of Verulamnium,type is well known from other Bites. ers filled in the foundations with are at least yielding up their It seems curious that the medieval the broken rubble of the earlier secrets. Although the excavatione builders who used the Roman ruins house before beginning the new one, a joint enterprise of the city as a quarry-they even dug deep in one case burying the oven of the authorities and archeological socie-along the wall to strip it of its tiles last occupant, and in another an ties-began only a fortnight ago, should have missed these tower older tesselated pavement. (writes a correspondent in a recent walls of the gateway when they Mrs. Wheelers, workers uncovered issue of the Manchester Guardian) |"were building the Cathedral and a tesselated Boor of a more interesting · discoveries have been other old churches, in St. Albans. elaborate kind, with a pattern in mado already, and there is goodIt has always been doubtful whe colours forming a sort of border promise of more."
ther the Romans utilised the pre- round the plain red tesserae of the existing defence of the British centre, like the decorated border of settlement, but the new evidence a "if coloured carpet. Close by suggests that the wall was entirely the delicate job was in hand of recovering the pieces of a big wine amphora.."
The Walled City. Before Dr. Mortimer Wheeler and his wife began the digging the only
evidence of Roman St. Albans visible above ground were portions. of the massive defensive wall, ance
a Roman work.
Before the Romans Came.
The second main object of the
two miles in extent and still most work is to trace the history of the impressive. This, wall is identical site from Celtic times through the in construction-fint masonry with Roman occupation and beyond it. lines of tile, that is, Roman brick, Before the Roman Conquest Verula
at intervals-to London Walt. One mium was an important British craft of building. In one room the
centre.
After Roman Occupation. Ope pretty piece of detective work seems to suggest that these houses were lived in after the occupation by people who had lost the Roman tesselated floor had sunk in deeply. owing doubtless to the collapse of the supports beneath connected with the heating system. Instead of restoring the floor the inhabitants had filled the depression with beaten clay and embedded in this
of the objects of the inquiry is to
It was the metropolis of fix the date of the wall, and in so south-east Britain, the capital of doing to settle the vexed question Cassivellaunus, chief of the Catu- of the date of London Wall. Both vellauni. While at one end of the Verulamium and Londonium were time scale, the place goes back inta destroyed in Boadicea's rising in the prehistory, at the other if goes for first century, and the theory most ward into the fifth century, for it favoured by archeologists has been is known that in 429 A.D. sh clay has been found an interesting ecclesiastical onference on the pot It is Roman in form, but it. pelagian heresy was held there, and is, hand-made and very rough in there is evidence of peaceful urban texture; not at all a pot as the life at that period-the only evi- Romans made then. It may be that it was the work of someone in the dence of the kind relating to a
fifth century who remembered some. thing of the Roman taught art of pottery, but practised it in a de generate form. It is thought that this may have been the working- clase quarter of Verulamium....."
that both towns were walled after the rebellion was put down. The other theory dates the walls to the troubled times of the third century when the barbarian invasions were
beginning.
It is too early for dogmatism, but already it seems probable that the early date will be proved... A great cutting has been made through the wall and its outer ditch and bank. At this spot, just inside the wall on the floor-level, a coin of the first century was turned up by the diggers while I was there. The approximate date of 100 A.D, emerging for the defences Verulamium and of London.
A Flanking Tower.
is
of
One approaches the site by the pleasant path now known as the Causeway, which in ancient times
1
Roman town in Britain.
Sites of Three Houses,
It is in the exciting hope of throw ing light on the later phases of this long history that Mrs. Moritimer Wheeler is now unearthing the re- mains of houses inside the Roman
town.
An Early Britannia.” There is as yet no proof that the
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Watling Street, ., the main road Roman municipium were on the from the gate to the forum. One same spot. That will came later, could study the, ground plan of and meanwhile we have these inter three complete houses and get some esting suggestions of the decay of notion, however slight, of how the the Roman arts and crafts long after peoplo lived during the occupation. the conquest. A mass of pottery You see the stumps of the walls of has been found, including fine the rooms built of flints, and there simian were imported from the Con was the Watling Street. In Boman the flooring made of little squares tinent and tough native imitations times it was by this read that of red pottery is still in post of it, as well as Celtic vessels with travellers coming from London tian. One house, belonging prob- the characteristic hunting scene de. entered Verulamium. At this spot ably to the later period of occupa-coration. There is the inevitable they have just discovered a few feet tion, is of the corridor type, in tile with the imprint of a dog's below the soil the main gateway which all the rooms open upon & foot. Perhaps the most interesting of the Roman town. One sees the long passage. There is no stone coin is a bronze piece with the head wall of tile still perfectly preserved near St. Albans, and it seems of Antonium Pius, and on the re- where was the opening on the wall, likely that these houses were built verse an image like the Britannia and to the side of it the foundations above the low flint walls of timber of our present coinage, complete have been laid bare of a round and daub much in the manner of with belmet and shield by her side.
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Thursday, (September 11.) (Geptember 10.)
Queen's Theatre: "Let Go | Places." Queen's Theatre:" Places.".
Central Theatre: "The Doctor's Central Theatre: The Doctor's Secret.".
.. Secret."
World Theatre
Vermillion
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Star Theatre: Warp Majestic Theatre: "Golf Widows." HK, Hockey Club Mesting, Volunteer, Headquarters, 8.30 p.m.
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World Theatre:"Love Trap." Majestic Theatre: "Golf Widowa." Star Theatre Three Passions,” European Mail-Inward: Europe vid Buez (Malwa). - ANT
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European Mail-Outward: Europe vid Siberia (Malwa),8.20
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Saturday.
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Queen's Theatre:"Caught Short.". World Theatre: "Love Trap." Star Theatre Three Passions." Baseball: Kidora v. Filipino. Police Aquatic Sports, V.R.Cj 2.45 p.m.
Tea Dance: Foninsula Hotel, 5 P.
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