The church of SMaria antiqua . hose of the rest of thewalls, and smaller, measured 1*05 to 1-35 m. long and 45 cm. high, andthe wall was 1-85 m. thick, with headers and stretchers in alternatecourses. To the N. of this wall (the western portion of which is still pre-served) a narrow neck has been formed by deep cuttings on each Notizie degli Scavi, 1885, 424, and tav. xiii. where a description andplan (neither very complete) of the existing remains of Gabii and of itsimmediate neighbourhood are given. 190 The British School at Rome. From this point starts a remarkable ancient road, th
The church of SMaria antiqua . hose of the rest of thewalls, and smaller, measured 1*05 to 1-35 m. long and 45 cm. high, andthe wall was 1-85 m. thick, with headers and stretchers in alternatecourses. To the N. of this wall (the western portion of which is still pre-served) a narrow neck has been formed by deep cuttings on each Notizie degli Scavi, 1885, 424, and tav. xiii. where a description andplan (neither very complete) of the existing remains of Gabii and of itsimmediate neighbourhood are given. 190 The British School at Rome. From this point starts a remarkable ancient road, the prolongation ofwhich ran along the S. edge of the crater through the Roman city, passingS. of the temple and joining the Via Praenestina just W. of it (cf. Canina,Edifizi, vi. tav. 109). The road itself runs almost due N. for about 450 is a causeway, left untouched by quarrying operations, with a road trackabout two metres wide and one deep cut in it, and formed the cardo of thecity. A portion of it is shown in Fig. Fig. 11.—Ancient Road, Gabii. About 200 yards further on, below the road, upon a shelf left byquarrying operations, is a modern hut village (Fig. 12) which is, however,remarkable as a survival of the earliest type of settlement. See Lanciani,Ruins and Excavations of Ancient Rome, Fig. 45 (and p. 114), for thephotograph of a precisely similar village on the W. side of the lake, onthe left bank of the Osa stream. Close to this, high up on the bank ofthe lake, is a small fragment of the primitive city wall. Two courses ofrough opus quadratum of local stone are preserved ; the blocks in eachcourse are about 33 cm. in height, and go up to 90 cm. in length. Furtheron is another longer fragment, the blocks of which only just appear above Classical Topography of the Roman Campagna.—I. 191 the surface of the ground ; the line may in fact be traced along the edgeof the lake for most of the way to the tower. Neither of these two piecesof wall is mentioned in th
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