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XIV. Account of Roman Antiquities discovered in the County of Gloucester. By Samuel Lysons, Esq. F.A.S.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

Samuel Lysons Esq.
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Plate IX. Fig. 1. A burial urn of glass, found about twenty-five years since, in a field called Kingsmead, about half a mile distant from Cirencester; it was wrapped in lead, and deposited in a stone hollowed out to receive it; it is of a greenish colour, not very transparent, but well-moulded, having several raised circles on its bottom, quite smooth, without any appearance of having ever been fastened to a blowing iron as all modern glass vessels are in the making, which have therefore a rough mark at the bottom, unless they have been afterwards ground smooth. Its diameter at the top is five inches and three eighths, height ten inches and one eighth, and width at the bottom five inches and five eighths. It is in the possesion of C. H. Parry, M. D. of Bath.

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Archaeologia , Volume 10 , 1789 , pp. 131 - 136
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1789

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page 132 note [a] “In the sowth-sowth-west side of the waul be lykelyhod hath bene a castel, or sum other great building, the hilles and ditches yet remayne. The place is now a waren for conys, and therein hath be fownd mennes bones, insolitæ magnitudinis, also to sepulchres, ex secto lapide. In one was a round vessel of leade covered, and in it ashes and pieces of bones.” Itin. vol. V. fol. 65. By the place where these remains were found Leland undoubtedly meant the Querns, which is covered with small hills, having the appearance of so many tumuli, most probably the remains of stone quarries dug by the Romans for building the city and making roads, and afterwards used as a burying ground.

page 132 note [b] See Archæologia, vol. VII. p. 576.

page 135 note [c] L'Antiq. expliq. Tom. III. Liv. iv. p. 169.

page 135 note [d] II. 38.