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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![manor, Colonel Gore Langton, will be prevented from suffering the injury and dilapidation which the relics of antiquity so frequently experience. What has been hitherto discovered consists of a piece of mosaic work, and of an exquisitely beautiful tessellated pavement, enriched with figures, in a high state of preservation ; and the tesserae of which preserve the most beautiful and vivid colours. The dimensions are considerable; and from what has been already found, it would appear that a very considerable portion yet remains to be explored. As lately as Thursday sevennight the workmen had exposed a fresh piece of great beauty, and as perfect as what had been previously laid open. Whatley. [1838, Part /., p. 435.] The remains of a Roman villa have recently been found on the estate of John Henry Shore, Esq., at Whatley, near Frome, in the occupation of farmer Hill. Earth to the depth of 3 feet having been removed, a fine tessellated pavement was uncovered, consisting of twro rooms connected together, one of them being 32 feet by 20, and the other 22 feet by 14. The pavement is tolerably perfect, but has suffered damage in one part. It consists of two compartments, one circular, and the other oblong. The tesserae are not larger than dice, but of seven various colours, and forming different devices. In one part is a figure with a sceptre, and in another an elephant, with several fishes, vases, flowers, etc. Bones, coins, pottery, and a curious clasp-knife, have also been found. [1839, Part II., p. 77.] In making some further excavations, a small part of a wall has been laid open. It is covered with paintings on fine plaster, similar to that discovered by Mr. Lysons some years since, at Colesbourn, in Gloucestershire. The pattern is rudely executed, but the colours are distinguishable. There have also been found some coins of the Emperors Claudius and Constantine, a curious bronze spoon, a small bronze animal resembling a goat or sheep, a large needle of the same metal, and some fragments of fine pottery, which had been broken and joined together with molten lead. Elliot Stock. Paternoster Row, London.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24879034_0001_0325.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
