Early Britain—Roman Britain eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 242 pages of information about Early Britain—Roman Britain.

Early Britain—Roman Britain eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 242 pages of information about Early Britain—Roman Britain.

[Footnote 214:  Roman milestones have been found in various places, amongst the latest and most interesting being one of Carausius discovered in 1895, at Carlisle.  It had been reversed to substitute the name of Constantius (see p. 222.).  It may be noted that the earliest of post-Roman date are those still existing on the road between Cambridge and London, set up in 1729.]

[Footnote 215:  See p. 117.  When the existing bridge was built, Roman remains were found in the river-bed.]

[Footnote 216:  The Thames to the south, the Fleet to the west, and the Wall Brook to the east and north.]

[Footnote 217:  See p. 233.  The city wall may well be due to him.]

[Footnote 218:  See p. 233.]

[Footnote 219:  On this functionary, see article by Domaszewski in the ‘Rheinisches Review,’ 1891.  His appointment was part of the pacificatory system promoted by Agricola.]

[Footnote 220:  An archigubernus (master pilot) of this fleet left his property to one of his subordinates in trust for his infant son.  The son died before coming of age, whereupon the estate was claimed by the next of kin, while the trustee contended that it had now passed to him absolutely.  He was upheld by the Court.  Another York decision established the principle that any money made by a slave belonged to his bona fide owner.  And another settled that a Decurio (a functionary answering to a village Mayor in France) was responsible only for his own Curia.]

[Footnote 221:  Inscriptions of the Twentieth have been found here.]

[Footnote 222:  Legra-ceaster, the earliest known form of the name, signifies Camp-chester (Legra = Laager).  In Anglo-Saxon writings the name is often applied to Chester.  This, however, was the Chester, par excellence, as having remained so long unoccupied.  In the days of Alfred it is still a “waste Chester” in the A.S.  Chronicle.  The word Chester is only associated with Roman fortifications in Southern Britain.  But north of the wall, as Mr. Haverfield points out, we find it applied to earthworks which cannot possibly have ever been Roman. (See ‘Antiquary’ for 1895, p. 37.)]

[Footnote 223:  Bath was frequented by Romano-British society for its medicinal waters, as it has been since.  The name Aquae (like the various Aix in Western Europe) records this fact.  Bath was differentiated as Aquae Solis; the last word having less reference to Apollo the Healer, than to a local deity Sul or Sulis.  Traces of an elaborate pump-room system, including baths and cisterns still retaining their leaden lining, have here been discovered; and even the stock-in-trade of one of the small shops, where, as now at such resorts, trinkets were sold to the visitors.(See ‘Antiquary,’ 1895, p. 201.)]

[Footnote 224:  Similar excavations are in progress at Caergwent, but, as yet, with less interesting results.  Amongst the objects found is a money-box of pottery, with a slit for the coins.  A theatre [?] is now (1903) being uncovered.]

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