Archaeologia cantiana . rmously massive wall of Romanmasonry, with the usual string-courses of brick ; and the same wall was found again continuing the same line a few yards further on in Guildhall Street The discovery of this piece of unmistakably Roman wall, from its width also unmistakablycity wall, gives fresh point to the question whether we may notexpect some future excavation into the earthen banks, on thesouthern and eastern sides [of Canterbury], to reveal a Romanwall in them. Or can we suppose one side of the city to havebeen fortified with earthwork only, and the other with a wall o
Archaeologia cantiana . rmously massive wall of Romanmasonry, with the usual string-courses of brick ; and the same wall was found again continuing the same line a few yards further on in Guildhall Street The discovery of this piece of unmistakably Roman wall, from its width also unmistakablycity wall, gives fresh point to the question whether we may notexpect some future excavation into the earthen banks, on thesouthern and eastern sides [of Canterbury], to reveal a Romanwall in them. Or can we suppose one side of the city to havebeen fortified with earthwork only, and the other with a wall ofstone? Mr. Faussett believed that the existing earthen wall of the cityis a Roman wall or occupies its site. The earthen wall stopssuddenly, not far north of Burgate, in the garden of a residentiaryhouse* near the south-eastern corner of the Cathedral that point, said Mr. Faussett, it probably ran directly towards * Occupied now and for many years past by the Rev. F. Rouch, a MinorCanon of the PLAN SHEWING SITES OF ROMAN AND MEDIEVAL REMAINS FOUND BY M« BENEATH THE STREETS OF CANTERBURY IN 1868. ROMAN CANTERBURY. the spot upon which now stands the south-west tower of theCathedral. Thence it crossed to Sun Street, where the solidmasonry of its mural continuation still remains in the soil. Thusthe site of the Cathedral itself was just outside the north wall ofthe Roman settlement, according to Mr. Faussett. Urn burialsfound in Palace Street (at points marked 62 and 63 on Mr. Pilbrowsplan) proved, said Mr. Faussett, that those sites stood outside theRoman north wall; and that the north gate of the Romans musthave stood far to the south of the mediaeval north gate. Thus on the east and south, he considered that the existingcity walls coincide with Roman boundaries; and he was probablycorrect. But these may have been late boundaries of a settlementwhich, during the lapse of two or three centuries, the Romans hadextended far beyond its original
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