Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . ded of reconstruction and from the perfectpreservation of one of the hypocausts, where not only was the pavementstill in situ, but the pilae were found to be actually resting on the mosaicpavement of an earlier house. Other interesting features in this housewere a small set of baths and a well. House VII. was chiefly remarkablefor two very fine pavements, one of which contained interesting but badly- i Caerwent. 79- executed representations of. -winged figures bearing torches and of more interesting perhaps -
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . ded of reconstruction and from the perfectpreservation of one of the hypocausts, where not only was the pavementstill in situ, but the pilae were found to be actually resting on the mosaicpavement of an earlier house. Other interesting features in this housewere a small set of baths and a well. House VII. was chiefly remarkablefor two very fine pavements, one of which contained interesting but badly- i Caerwent. 79- executed representations of. -winged figures bearing torches and of more interesting perhaps -were the remains of plaster on the -walls ofthis house, -which -were so -well preserved that both the pattern and thescheme of colour of the -wall decoration -were partially recovered. Other features of importance in the -work in this field -were a possibleshrine on -which -was a rude head, clumsily carved out of sandstone, aninteresting set of baths, and a mound -which -was found to run parallelto the city -wall, and may possibly have been the original defence of the. EXCAVATION AT Clark, Photo. site. Portions of the streets -which divided the city into insulae wexe alsofound, and the city wall -was in several places laid bare do-wn to itsfoundations. Mention must also be made of a hoard of over 7,000 smallcopper coins -which -was found in -what seems to have been a coins were mostly late. On the north side of the city perhaps the most interesting results arethe North Gate, which has been entirely excavated both inside and the sockets for the pivots of the doors can be seen, and they are at amuch higher level than would have seemed likely from the size of thepiers and the height of the capitals. The gateway has been blocked up atsome later time, leaving only a narrow passage. Leading in this directionwas found a culvert of stone slabs, inside which were at regular intervalsthe iron connecting-collar of a series of wooden pipes. South of the g
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