Archaeologia cantiana . fthe wall, we first discovered that some open arcademay have existed on this side (such as De Caumontdescribes as usual in similar buildings),f which wouldmake the width of the building correspond with itslength. Por to no other purpose than to the supportof the pier of a very massive arch could I assign thefact, that this rude foundation (built of flat stonesbound together with the hardest concrete) is actuallyimbedded to the depth of five feet in the rock chalk,which here is almost as hard as the Kentish rag vast apsidal fragment which adjoins it, and wasdi
Archaeologia cantiana . fthe wall, we first discovered that some open arcademay have existed on this side (such as De Caumontdescribes as usual in similar buildings),f which wouldmake the width of the building correspond with itslength. Por to no other purpose than to the supportof the pier of a very massive arch could I assign thefact, that this rude foundation (built of flat stonesbound together with the hardest concrete) is actuallyimbedded to the depth of five feet in the rock chalk,which here is almost as hard as the Kentish rag vast apsidal fragment which adjoins it, and wasdiscovered many years since, would thus constitutethe central portion of the western end, and representthe site of the tribune, which always had this form * This is the length he adopted in building the Basilica of Fano. j II y a lieu de pensev que quelques-unes etaient ouvevtes au nioinsduii cote pour la plus facile communication du penple. (CoursdAntiq. Monumentales, torn. iii. page 286.) ROMAN, SAXON, AND MEDIEVAL. 209. 3 FT4iN,IN DEPTH. NOBTH AISLE OF THE BASIIICA—FBAGMENT OP SOUTH WALt. (Eight feet below the present surface of the ground.)
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