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. 1883 Excerpt: ...well-known type of boiv fihidae. Gentleman Magazine. Oct., lt10, p. 415. f Trans. Hist. Soc. Lane, and Cheshire, vol. xxxiii., p. 221. Although it is scarcely possible that the excavations within the castrum (circa 187G) for the piers of the viaduct of the new railway between Manchester and Liverpool could fail to ...
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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. 1883 Excerpt: ...well-known type of boiv fihidae. Gentleman Magazine. Oct., lt10, p. 415. f Trans. Hist. Soc. Lane, and Cheshire, vol. xxxiii., p. 221. Although it is scarcely possible that the excavations within the castrum (circa 187G) for the piers of the viaduct of the new railway between Manchester and Liverpool could fail to produce some discoveries of antiquities, none have been recorded. Like other Roman stations, Mancunium no doubt had suburbs, containing a mixed Romano-British population. Whitaker describes a building found in 176G, "on the slope of the bank," 16 yards by 12 (interior measurement), with walls 6 feet thick, and remaining to the height of 3 feet, --laid in a manner which bespoke it to be British. About half a yard below the surface of the ground was a line of large irregular blocks, some hewn from the quarry of Collyhurst, and others collected from the channel of the river. And under it were three layers of common paving stones, not compacted together with morter, but with the rude and primitive cement of clay. He thought it could not "have been the remains of a cabin for the warriours, because it was modelled in a square form. It was therefore the groundwork of an hovel for the cattle." The doorway was on the north side, taking up the whole of it, and the floor sloped to the south. To my mind it clearly appears to have been the site of some suburban building. And, he continues, --the same sort of foundations was discovered in 1765 and 1770, a little lower in the field, and running for thirty or forty yards together; a single layer of small paving stones bedded equally in clay, resting on the plane of the rock, and covered with rubbish to the depth of a couple of yards. His ideas of the Britons seem peculiar, for he adds, --The disc...
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