Volume 1
The gentleman's magazine library : being a classified collection of the chief contents of The gentleman's magazine from 1731 to 1868. Romano-British remains / edited by George Laurence Gomme.
- Date:
- 1887
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The gentleman's magazine library : being a classified collection of the chief contents of The gentleman's magazine from 1731 to 1868. Romano-British remains / edited by George Laurence Gomme. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The quantity of pottery found whole is very small. No vessel was quite perfect, four only failed of being so through having portions broken out of the bottom. The shape of these is the same. They are of common red, unglazed earthenware, formed like a flower-pot, having a small handle of the same material set on in the middle of the vessel. These are the leading proportions—5 inches high, 5 inches diameter at top, 3f inches at the bottom; the handle 2 inches in diameter. Round the centre of the mug runs a band of simple diagonal markings. They are enclosed between two indented parallel lines running above and below. These were found in the large holes in the shelf already mentioned, and among the fragments is a large number of pieces belonging to similar vessels. One very shallow dish nearly perfect was also found, and fragments of other large and small vessels in black and red earthenware, many showing markings on the surface of various patterns, some of these being made, as it seems, with a stamp. The bottoms and other portions of very small jars in red and black ware also were met with. No portion of metal belonging to the pottery kiln has been dis- covered. A quantity of black earth, lying on the floor in front of it, is supposed to contain the remains of charcoal with which it was heated. A bronze fibula was picked up on the same spot, and a few Roman coins have been met with in different parts of the site of the brewery. These are chiefly small ones of the Constantine period, known as “Soldiers’ money.” On a second visit which I paid to the spot a day or two ago, portions of two handmill stones were shown me, which had been taken out of the debris. Both of them were imperfect, but one fitted into the other. They were formed out of a species of coarse con- glomerate, and were 15 inches in diameter, and from 2\ to 3 inches thick. One or two medieval coins had also been found, and there is every reason to believe that the site is rich both in Roman, early British, and medieval remains, which will doubtless be met with, when any further opening-out of the soil is made. You will be glad to hear that it has been resolved to arch over the pottery kiln, in order to preserve it, and to render it accessible to those who care to inspect works of the Roman period. Should any further antiquarian discovery be made at this place, I shall have pleasure in sending you a report of it. I am, etc. W. B. Caparn. Uphill. [1846, Fart //., p. 633.] An accidental discovery of Roman coins has been made near the limekiln, at Uphill, Somersetshire. On raising some stones a labourer observed an aperture in the rock, and on further examination a large](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24879034_0001_0322.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
