Journal of the British Archaeological Association Volume 13 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 edition. Excerpt: ...etc. When first opened, quantities of flue-tiles, roof-tiles, and pieces of smooth stucco from the walls, lay thickly scattered about. The floor of the hypocausts lay from three to four feet under the present surface of the ground, which is uneven; but the floor of the rooms was, to judge by the piece remaining, but a few inches under the surface." Mr. More has traced, for a distance of forty feet, a strong stone wall, two and a half feet thick; a strong drain; and a pipe formed of flue-tiles, of a curious construction, made for the purpose of fitting together. The remains of the fires made in the hypocausts have been found. In the park another wall, in the same line of direction, extending to a length of one hundred yards, and other evidences of buildings of some extent, have been made out, together with the remains of an aqueduct pointing towards a pool, conjectured to have been originally a Roman reservoir, which, it is to be hoped, may be minutely examined. Mr. More is, we believe, continuing to excavate; and from that which is above related, it is probable that his expenditure of time will be well repaid by the probable discovery of a settlement of some importance connected with the Romans in this country. The researches are going on, and will be communicated to, and published in, the journal of the Cambrian Archaeological Association. THE JOURNAL association. SEPTEMBER 1H57. ON THE BISHOP'S PALACE AT WELLS. BY C. E. DAVIS, ESQ., F.S.A. As it would probably occupy too much time were I to enter upon a minute or entire description of the palace at Wells, I purpose, on the present occasion, to confine myself to a brief general account introductory to particularizing those points which appear to me to have been hitherto unattended to, ...