The Archaeological journal . k soil, then running sand, at about fifteen feet gravel. Atthis level there appeared to lie what has been thought a Roman road,crossing the site diagonally. Tt was twelve feet broad and about nine inchesthick, of hard gravel. At this level the Roman remains were was a small bronze figure, a bronze utensil of uncertain use, hereengraved, a great quantity of broken Samian ware, the generality of it withthe usual ornament, one piece had an exceptionally well modelled figure,and some of them were stamped with makers names. There was a greatquantity of other
The Archaeological journal . k soil, then running sand, at about fifteen feet gravel. Atthis level there appeared to lie what has been thought a Roman road,crossing the site diagonally. Tt was twelve feet broad and about nine inchesthick, of hard gravel. At this level the Roman remains were was a small bronze figure, a bronze utensil of uncertain use, hereengraved, a great quantity of broken Samian ware, the generality of it withthe usual ornament, one piece had an exceptionally well modelled figure,and some of them were stamped with makers names. There was a greatquantity of other pottery, mostly broken red, black, and grey ware, andportions of glass bottles, sandals, shoes, deer and goat horns, oyster andcockle shells in abundance, also keys, nails, and spindle whorls. At thebuilding of the neighbouring Carpenters Hall similar things were found,and can now be seen there. The most remarkable of the above mentioned objects is that herefigured, said to be of bronze, and which has more the appearance of. Half Linea brass. It is, perhaps, an open question whether this and some others ofthe objects found arc strictly of the Roman period For instance, asandal leather, bearing traces of blue colour, exhibited certain delicacyand style of workmanship that might be almost referred to the thirteenth 33l2 PROCEEDINGS AT MEETINGS OF THE century, while another nailed sole of a ladys shoe took the peculiar shapeso familiar to us in illuminated MSS. of that period. And with furtherregard to this leather work, it may also he borne in mind that sand andgravel are distinctly destroying and not preserving agencies. The fact of broken Samian ware having been found in abundance seemsto point to a Roman refuse heap, and the extraordinary changes that thesurface of the city has undergone would easily account for the juxta-position of articles of a much later period. By Mr. R Ready.—Copy of the seal and counter seal of the Abbey ofHoly Cross, Waltham, attached to a deed pres
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