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discovered in the year 1822 by the diligent researches of Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart., at Farley in Wiltshire'.

Roman remains of remarkable interest have also been found at the following places, all supposed to be indications of domestic edifices of some consequence :-at Colchester and Ridgewell in Essex; at Canterbury in Kent; at Bromham in Bedfordshire, and High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire; at Cotterstock, Castor' and Heyford, near the Watling Street, in Northamptonshire; at Roxby, Denton and Grantham in Lincolnshire; at Mansfield Woodhouse

Of this a plan and view are given in the Gentleman's Magazine for February 1823.

2 In Northumberland is found the greatest number of Roman earthworks, buildings and inscriptions, at the several stations bordering on the Wall of Severus, particularly at Housesteads, which is called by Dr. Stukely the Palmyra of Britain; and in Cumberland the Roman altars and inscribed stones are almost equally abundant, in consequence of the numerous military stations contained in that county.

3 Castor, as its name implies, is the site of a Roman station, the Durobrivæ of Antonine's Itinerary. Many curious vestiges of the occupancy of the Anglo-Romans have been

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in Nottinghamshire; at Wymondham in Leicestershire; at Stunsfield and Wigginton in Oxfordshire; at Cirencester in Gloucestershire, and at Caerwent, near Chepstow, in Monmouthshire; at Littlecot and Pitmead in Wiltshire; at Thruxton and Bramdean in Hampshire; and at Frampton in Dorsetshire.

Several fragments of a Roman temple were dug up at Bath; and walls at Leicester are supposed to be part of a temple, the materials of which they are composed being decidedly Roman.

This Essay already, perhaps, carried to an unnecessary length-may be terminated in the impressive words of Sir Thomas Browne'. "The treasures of time lie high, in urns, coins, and monuments, scarce below the roots of some

found here. Mr. Artis of Milton, in the year 1820, devoted much research in exploring the vicinity, and succeeded in bringing to light several interesting objects, as hypocausts, tessellated pavements, pottery, sculptured stones, coins, &c. 1 Hydrotaphia.

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vegetables. Time has endless rarities and shows of all varieties; which reveals old things in heaven, makes new discoveries in earth, and even earth itself a discovery. That great antiquity America lay buried for a thousand years; and a large part of the earth is still in the urn unto us."

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