. The Archaeological journal. , on a continuous stone foundation,a portion of which, 3 feet square, remained under one ofthem. When found, the four in place were each cappedby a square stone, with the upper part boldly chamfered,which stones were evidently so placed at some compara-tively modern period when the bases may have beenutilised as they stood for farming purposes.^ The whole of these stones were taken up and depositedin the garden of the late Mr. Staniers house,^ where theyare still to be seen, with the exception of two, used asbases to the Eoman columns forming the piers of thechurc
. The Archaeological journal. , on a continuous stone foundation,a portion of which, 3 feet square, remained under one ofthem. When found, the four in place were each cappedby a square stone, with the upper part boldly chamfered,which stones were evidently so placed at some compara-tively modern period when the bases may have beenutilised as they stood for farming purposes.^ The whole of these stones were taken up and depositedin the garden of the late Mr. Staniers house,^ where theyare still to be seen, with the exception of two, used asbases to the Eoman columns forming the piers of thechurchyard gate erected in 1859. See for a plan of these remains - The house marked as The Cot- Jounial of Brilish Archceoloijical Asso- tuge in the 25-inch Ordnance Surveyciation, Vol. XVI. p. 205, Plate 18. Map, uow the residence of Mr. Eyerall. URICONIUM. [WROXETER], DISCOVERIES OF 1855. SouTHEffN fiNdLe or Po^r/co ^£sto/{£o. Ill Plan No. I. taliiliiliil I Si £ y/i r/a/v ar i roM£s ^e^/M URICONIUM. i:^>7 A reference to Plan No. I at I will show the positionof these remains in relation to the more important dis-coveries made at a later date, and in Plan No. Ill a partialrestoration exhibits the southern end of the line of piers had constituted a part of the portico of abuilding looking on some street or open place. The])linth attached to the fifth base, with one stone in con-tinuation of the same, and the chase cut through themouldings on its northern side, as shown in Plan No. Ill,reveal the fact that this base stood at the end of the southwall of the edifice of which the portico was the grooves in all the bases proved that the portico hadbeen closed by screens of woodwork, a not uncommonarrangement in the porticoes of Roman buildings in thiscountry. The paving also, uncovered at some distancebehind the line of bases, showed that the building ofwhich they were part was one of some size.
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