The journal of a naturalist / [Anon].

  • John Leonard Knapp
Date:
1829
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The journal of a naturalist / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ward. The Aust ferry, supposed to be the “ trajectus,” or place where the Romans were accustomed to pass the Severn, is visible, with several stations of that people and the ancient British, being a part of that great chain of forts originally maintained to restrain the plundering inroads of the restless inhabitants of the other bank of the river: Thornbnry, with its fine ca- thedral-like church and castle, the opposite red cliffs of the Severn, and the stream itself, are fine and interesting features. An encampment of some people, probably Romans, occupies a rather elevated part of the parish, consisting of perhaps three acres of ground, surrounded by a high agger, with no ditch, or a very imperfect one, and probably was never designed for protracted resistance : it appears to form one of the above-mentioned series of forts erected by Ostorius, commencing at Weston, in Somersetshire, and terminating at Bredon in the county of Worcester—ours was probably a specula, or watch-hill, of the larger kind. We can yet trace, though at places but obscurely, the road that connected this en- campment with another post in an adjoining village. A few years sweep away commonly all traces of roads of later periods, and the testimony
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