The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon : a history of the early inhabitants of Britain, down to the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity ; illustrated by the ancient remains brought to light by recent research / by Thomas Wright ; with numerous engravings on wood (1902)
bstructure underneath. The pavements havesuffered most from beinp;accidentally discovered, from time to time, by thei;^norant peasantry, who broke them uj), imagining that tieasures wereconcealed under them. Ierhaps the Caledonian or Saxon invaders oftendestroyed the pavements for the same cau.se.… … OHAP. vir.] ROMAN VILLAS. 243 resemblance to the directions given by Vitruvius.* In the vilhiat Bignor there were also two courts, larger even than those atWoodchester, but they lay with a different aspect, runningnorth-west and south-east, instead of nearly north and south.The inner court at…
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