. Illustrations of the remains of Roman art, in Cirencester, the site of antient Corinium . l falling of the plaster of thewalls, by which, as it mouldered away when these houses were uninhabitedby the Romans, the ornamental floors were- screened from view. The suc-cessors in power, finding these habitations, when they began to colonize,either not suitable to their owij tastes, or in too dilapidated a state for EOMAN WALLS AND THEIR DECORATIONS. 75 reedification, built houses according to their own fancies, using the pilesof stones of the Roman town as quarries whence c(»uld readily be procure
. Illustrations of the remains of Roman art, in Cirencester, the site of antient Corinium . l falling of the plaster of thewalls, by which, as it mouldered away when these houses were uninhabitedby the Romans, the ornamental floors were- screened from view. The suc-cessors in power, finding these habitations, when they began to colonize,either not suitable to their owij tastes, or in too dilapidated a state for EOMAN WALLS AND THEIR DECORATIONS. 75 reedification, built houses according to their own fancies, using the pilesof stones of the Roman town as quarries whence c(»uld readily be procuredthe necessary materials. We should expect that, after so great a ciiange as the fall of the Romanpower in Britain, decay of the kind supposed would naturally ensue, andthis accounts for the universal coating of the kind indicated ; it is presumedfar more satisfactorily than supposing that this fine rubble covering wasput down designedly, by the j)roprietor, to protect the pavement, in thehope that in better days he might return and find them unimpaired. l2 EOMAN POTTEEY PROM 13. Groiip of Roman Pottery. As the Potters wheel is one of the most antient mechanical contrivances,and as it has been made subservient, in every age, and among all races, tothe production of various kinds of earthen fictilia, it may be expected thatthe material, the forms, and method of ornamentation of Pottery, will be asvaried as the tastes and resources of the different people by Avliom theEarthenware has been bequeathed to us. Hence we find that, notwith-standing centuries have passed away since the entombment in our island ofvarious forms of vases, urns, and the like of Celtic, Romano-British, and EOMAN POTTEET. 77 Anglo-Saxon origin, yet the specimens left to us by each of these peoplecan readily be separated by the antiquary, and made to afford their quotaof information of the people by whom they were fashioned. This is particular!}^ the case with Roman Pottery, scarcely a piece of itb
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