Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)
Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 481
A view of the inside of the wall. It is built of regularsquared blocks of tufa (volcanic conglomerate), withoutcement. The walls run against the face of the cliffs of thehills which they enclose, crossing the valleys with an agger(see No. 519). Note the stone-masonsmarks on the blocks. 519. Agger… … Where the wall of Servius crossed the valleys or flatlands a ditch was dug, and the embankment made with theearth taken out was faced with an outside retaining wallwith buttresses. A road ran alongside the inner edge ofthe mound, and another along the outer edge of the ditch. BUILDINGS, CITIES AND…
Classical antiquities
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