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XXII.—Excavations on the site of the Roman city at Silchester, Hants, in 1892

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2012

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We have the honour to bring before the meeting to-night the record of the third year's excavations on the site of the Roman city at Silchester.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1893

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page 540 note a Vol. xlvi. p. 349 et seq.

page 543 note a Archaeologia, lii. pi. xxxii.

page 545 note a This stone was 3 feet 6 inches wide, 2 feet 9 inches high, and 6 feet 5 inches thick.

page 545 note b These ranges of chambers are 31 feet, 29 feet 6 inches, and 32 feet 6 inches wide on the north, east, and south sides respectively.

page 547 note a From the few hitherto found in the city, it might be conjectured that the forum would be well supplied with shops, more so than in towns where they constitute a more marked feature than they do at Calleva.

page 547 note b See a paper by Buls, M. Ch., in Annales de la Société d'Archéolgie de Bruselles, v. 189192Google Scholar.

page 550 note a See Archaeologia xlvi. 364Google Scholar.

page 551 note a Traces of oilier setting-out points were found not far from this spot, one against the inner face of the south wall of the basilica at a point 19 feet west of its south-east angle, and another at the north-west angle of the passageway adjoining the basilica, in the southern range of buildings of the forum.

page 555 note a P. 452, No. 901.

page 555 note b See for a notice of examples of this kind of work on various buildings in Rome, Ancient Rome in 1885, by J. H. Middleton, first edition, chap. xii. p. 403.

page 555 note c An interesting example of the continuation of this latter mode of filling window openings may be found in William of Malmesbury's account of the church erected by Paulinas at York in the earlier half of the seventh century.

page 556 note a Archaeologia, xlvi. 359Google Scholar.

page 556 note b Ib. 361–2.

page 559 note a Archaeological Journal, xxx. 24Google Scholar.

page 562 note a Archaeologia, xlvi. 355Google Scholar.

page 567 note a An example of a Chi-Rho monogram occurs in a mosaic pavement in a villa at Frarnpton, Dorsetshire, engraved in Lysons's Reliquiae Britannico Romanae, vol. i., but the author thinks it probably “was inserted at a later period” than the age of Constantine.

page 568 note a Freeman, , English Towns and Districts (London, 1883), 163Google Scholar.

page 568 note b See Bulletin de la Société des Antiquairies de Picardie, 1890, 2nd Trimestre.

page 570 note a Under the eastern of these were the remains of a hypocaust of the earlier building, which also here terminated southwards.

page 572 note a Ante, p. 286.