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X.—Discoveries made during Excavations at Canterbury in 1868

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2012

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In April last, immediately after the discovery was made, I had the pleasure to forward to the Society of Antiquaries a coloured photograph and short description of a portion of a tessellated Roman floor or pavement discovered in Burgate Street, in the city of Canterbury, and I then promised to communicate, when the operations then in progress should have been, completed, a general description of what might be further discovered, which promise I will now endeavour to redeem.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1871

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page 151 note a The present communication was accompanied by an exhibition as well of photographs and drawings of the various antiquities discovered in the course of the excavations as of a large number of the objects themselves.

page 152 note a Among the numerous coins found there are three of those said to be struck in honour of Rome, Romulus, and Remus, differing however from each other ; also a Canterbury token of copper, of an inch diameter, upon one side of which, in the centre, are the letters with the legend IN canter.…; on the other side three crowned figures rudely drawn, with arms somewhat akimbo or arm-in-arm, and legs in a ludicrous position of dancing, with the legend at thekings.

page 152 note b The numerals in parenthesis refer to the corresponding figures on the map, Plate XXII.

page 153 note a With these querns was found the perforated article (No. 69**) exhibited, which appears to have been used as a collar for steadying or holding these millstones in their places while grinding. What the material is I am not able to suggest. These querns arc very much dished, and the cuttings or groovings are in good state, showing their arrangement, &c.

page 159 note a There was nothing remarkable in these horse-shoes, nor especially so in others found in Broad Oak Lane, &c. but, as I presented them to Capt. Flemming, V.S., R.E., who is about to publish a treatise on the subject, they will be well examined.

page 159 note b The state of preservation of this interesting object was not such as to render it possible to figure it with any chance of properly reproducing the pattern of the enamels.

page 159 note c See also Mr. C. R. Smith's Catalogue of his London Collection, No. 301.

page 160 note a Connecting Longport and Ivy Lane, but at points beyond the limits of Plate XXII.

page 163 note a careti · m · —(Mr. Roach Smith.)

page 163 note b cracvna · F · —(Mr. Roach Smith.)

page 163 note c m. aioiri. m · maioris · —(Mr. Roach Smith.)