Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . ere excavated in 1855 by the late Mr. Octavius Morgan. Thepresent excavations were begun in 1900, and are now in progress. Twodifferent parts of the city are being explored at the same time; viz., thefield south-west of the church, called the Copses, where permission to dighas been granted by the trustees of the late Mr. John Lysaght, and by thetenant, Mr. Till, and some fields near the North Gate, which have been 78 Transactions for the Year 1903, bought for the purpose by Lord Tredegar, who is also most generouslydefray
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . ere excavated in 1855 by the late Mr. Octavius Morgan. Thepresent excavations were begun in 1900, and are now in progress. Twodifferent parts of the city are being explored at the same time; viz., thefield south-west of the church, called the Copses, where permission to dighas been granted by the trustees of the late Mr. John Lysaght, and by thetenant, Mr. Till, and some fields near the North Gate, which have been 78 Transactions for the Year 1903, bought for the purpose by Lord Tredegar, who is also most generouslydefraying the expense of this part of the work. In the former part—the Copses—a field of about 9 acres, the resultsso far are mainly the complete exploration of three unusually fine andinteresting houses—houses III, IV., and VII.—which differ in plan insome important respects from those found at Silchest^r. These housesare all of the courtyard type, but they are differentiated from those of asimilar type at Silchester by the fact that all four sides of the courtyard. THE ROMAN WALL, Clark, Photo. are surrounded by rooms. House III. is of special interest, as the court-yard was surrounded by an ambulatory paved with a tessellated pavement,separated from the central space by a row of columns supporting a roof;the courtyard was practically the same as the peristyliiim in a Pompeianhouse. House II., which was of unusual size, was chiefly interestingfrom the ample evidence it afforded 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 animals.
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