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XV. An Account of the Remains of several Roman Buildings and other Roman Antiquities discovered in the County of Gloucester. By Samuel Lysons, Esq. V.P. F.R.S.

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Samuel Lysons Esq.
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In the year 1789 I communicated to this Society some account of the remains of a Roman building which had been discovered in 1770 and 1787 at Comb-End Farm, in the parish of Colesbourn, belonging to Samuel Bowyer, Esq. about six miles distant from the Roman station of Corinium, now Cirencester; which account is printed in the ninth volume of the Archaeologia. In the year 1794 I had an opportunity of investigating another part of the same remains, when in the month of October an opening was made about fifty feet east of the pavement discovered in 1779, at a place where the inequality of the ground seemed to Indicate the remains of some building underneath, and the foundation walls of a room thirty-eight feet in length and fifteen in width soon appeared; the walls were of stone, somewhat more than two feet thick.

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Archaeologia , Volume 18 , 1817 , pp. 112 - 125
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1817

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page 115 note a This hypocaust nearly resembled one found at Lincoln in the year 1740, of which an engraving was published by the Society of Antiquaries, in the Monumenta Vetusta, vol. I, pl. LVII; where it will be seen that the piers were formed of bricks 8 inches square, over, which were placed others 18 inches square, and at the top were bricks 23 inches square.

page 118 note b Pl. VI.

page 119 note c See an outline of this subject, Pl. VII. fig. I.

page 120 note d See an outline of this compartment, Pl. VII.fig. 2.

page 120 note e This figure serves to explain a Roman altar found at Cramond, in Scotland, and figured in Horsley's Britannia Romana; being No xxviii of the Roman Inscriptions, &c. in Scotland. The head there figured had been generally taken for that of Jupiter Ammon; but Horsley (p. 204) inclines to think it was intended for Silvanus: on comparing it with these heads of Neptune, it is very obvious that it was designed for the same deity: the dolphins, which were perhaps somewhat defaced, had been taken for the feet of the goatskin round the neck.

page 122 note f An adze and a large forceps, and other antiquities, found here in 1784, are now in Mr. Crossthwaite's museum at Keswick in Cumberland.

page 122 note g It resembles one figured in Santi Bartoli's work on Ancient Lamps. Part II. pl, 35.

page 123 note h See Pl. viii. fig. 2, 3.

page 124 note i See Pl. viii. fig. 1.