The Journal of the British Archaeological Association Volume 150-151 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...of " King's Evil" may, perhaps, have derived some countenance from this precedent. Mr. R. Mann has sent us three photos of a sculptured stone from Bath, supposed to be Roman; and we have had another interpretation of the inscription on a leaden tablet found there, in the Roman baths, by Mr. Walter de Gray Birch, who reads the lettering from left to right as regards the words, but from right to left in reference to the 1 The interesting drawings, with full details, of this station, and the description of it by Dr. Hooppell, brought forward this session, will be found in the Journal. letters of each word, thus giving quite a new reading; and he has furnished a photograph of the tablet itself. An account of a Roman villa at Yatton, in Somersetshire; and another, by Mr. R. Mann, of one at Box in the same county; and of one at Hitchin, in Hertfordshire; as well as of a pavement in Friday Street, London, --add to our known list of Roman historic sites; to which may be added the particulars of Roman Lancaster, for which we have been indebted to Dr. Harker of that place. Though not strictly belonging to British archaeology, Mr. George R. Wright and Mr. J. L. Roget have sent us short descriptions of a Roman villa found at Reims, in France, which is the more acceptable as connected with the territory of the Remi, a most powerful tribe in the time of Julius Caesar, when he was meditating a descent upon Britain; and they were near neighbours of the Atrebates, whom I had occasion to speak of lately at Brighton, when on the subject of the ancient fortifications of Sussex. These tribes are, therefore, brought into relation with British history. Mr. Romilly Allen, in his paper on pre-Norman crosses found at Halton, in Lancashire, in last year's Journal (p. 328), ...