Subtle brains and lissom fingers : being some of the chisel-marks of our industrial and scientific progress and other papers / by Andrew Wynter.

  • Wynter, Andrew, 1819-1876.
Date:
1869
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Credit: Subtle brains and lissom fingers : being some of the chisel-marks of our industrial and scientific progress and other papers / by Andrew Wynter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    10 THE BUEIED ROMAN CITY IN BRITAIN. fear, basely deserted the weaker sex in the temble moment of massacre. What overwhelming terror— what sudden panic must have overcome these inmates, for the mother thus to desert her babe, and for the man to herd with women in such a dismal hiding, place. These tell-tale bones leave to us a vivid picture of that dreadful day—fourteen hundred years ago— when the enemy poured into the city and ravaged it with fire and sword. Southward of this inhabited and apparently private portion of the great block of buildings, the basements of another series of structures has been found. The lower walls and the herring-bone pavement of a square court opening immediately upon the open space, or ]place of the great military way or Wathng Street, have been laid bare. The court is forty feet square, and on its north and south sides runs a row of chambers from ten to twelve feet square. Dr. Henry Johnson, the Hon. Secretary of the Excavation Committee, with classic instinct, imme- diately fancied that it was the atrium of a private Eoman dwelling, especially as in the centre of the court the pavement was wanting, indicating the possi- bility of the remains of an itnpluvium; but, on search being made, no signs of one having been there were found; and further excavation proved that many of the usual features of such a private mansion were wanting. There was no tablinum or peristyle, the side of the atrium or court in that du'ection being closed by a wall, on the outside of which are a series of recesses, supposed to have been shops. Further on