An account of the remains of a Roman villa discovered at Bignor, in ... Sussex in ... 1811 / [Samuel Lysons].

  • Lysons, Samuel, 1763-1819
Date:
1815
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Credit: An account of the remains of a Roman villa discovered at Bignor, in ... Sussex in ... 1811 / [Samuel Lysons]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cogidunus, a British prince* who had sub^ mitted to the Roman power, and was made legate in Britain by Claudius, governed in this province of the Regni. b 'That considerable buildings were erected in Britain during the reign of Titus we also learn from Tacitus, who informs us that the Britons erected temples, houses, porticos, and baths, bv the advice and with the assistance of .Agricola. Many, no doubt, had previ¬ ously been erected by the Romans them¬ selves. By a comparison of the different speci¬ mens of mosaic work discovered at Bignor, with the figures of similar remains in other a We learn this from the inscribed stone found in the year 1723 at Chichester, and now in the possession of the Duke of Richmond ; where it appears, that by his order, a temple dedicated to Neptune and Minerva was erected at Ilegnum by the Collegium Falrorum. This circumstance relating to Cogidunus is further con¬ firmed by a passage in Tacitus’s Life of Agricola: “ Qusedam civitates Cogiduno regi donate $” adding, that he remained faithful to the Romans down to his time.