. The Archaeological journal. >... FIG. 2 (; i. WROXETER. ROMAN ARCHITECTURAL REMAINS.(k actual size). uincoNiUM. 171 they were found—close to the stokehole of the baths (18,Plan IV). They are perhaps the stones of which Wrightsays, They appear to have been designed to form the topof the arches of doorways or windows.^ They are, infact, coping stones from the tops of walls. 1he material of these architectural frac^ments is thesandstone of the district, ranging in colour from deepred to nearly white (the small shaft No. 12 figured inPlate IV is partly red and partly white), and
. The Archaeological journal. >... FIG. 2 (; i. WROXETER. ROMAN ARCHITECTURAL REMAINS.(k actual size). uincoNiUM. 171 they were found—close to the stokehole of the baths (18,Plan IV). They are perhaps the stones of which Wrightsays, They appear to have been designed to form the topof the arches of doorways or windows.^ They are, infact, coping stones from the tops of walls. 1he material of these architectural frac^ments is thesandstone of the district, ranging in colour from deepred to nearly white (the small shaft No. 12 figured inPlate IV is partly red and partly white), and a sandstonegrit which is always grey, a coarse intractable stone,although it has been employed for some of the capitalswith delicate carving upon them. This stone is still drawnfrom quarries at Hoar Hill, not far from Wroxeter. In concluding this review of such of the ruined edificesof Uriconium as are yet known, it imsij be said, withoutfear of contradiction, that no Eoman site in Britain offersa better promise of important disco
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