Discovery Of Roman Remains At Templeborough.

bottom of the southernmost column base was five feet from the surface of the ground . Turning our cutting westwards , we gradually discovered , one after anothsr , the bases of four large columns , 22 feet , 23 feet , and 21 feet apart . No two of them ivere exactly alike , but the most easterly seemed to" have been the one on which the broken column found on the east side had rested . Above this row of bases lay a bouldered road corresponding with the upper road of the east side , and seeming to lead up to the southern had formed the southern front ot tie

wall which during this second occupation building . Between the third and fourth bases of this front lay an entire column with its base outermost and its head toward the colonnade . It measures 9 ft . 7 in . long , 1 J m . in diameter at the base , and 15 J in . at the top . A luis hole is seen at its upper end . So far columns have not been found on the western side of the building . of luis holes mention two Roman les . Mr . Roach Smith has

Apropos , I may examp recorded that the more ponderous of the stones of the Decuman gate at Lymne , in Kent , are provided with luis holes , made precisely like those of the present day . Dr . Bruce , in his work already referred to , points out that all the facing stones of _ the Roman brid ge over the North Tyie , near Oilurnum , have been placed m their position by the luis . " These two examples effectually dispose of the popular notion that the luis was

invented by Louis XIY . of France . On the plan will be observed two small apartments near the north-west angle ot the'building . In the most easterly of these , many fragments of hypocaustal tiles and flue tiles were found , some of the latter blackened with soot , leading to the impression that here had been the hypocaust for warming the edifice . But nothing remained whole , nor ivere there any traces of p laster , though the fine tiles had been scored in of that materialThe large

diagonal lines as if for the purpose of receiving a coating . apartment extending from these small chambers to the south front has been cleared out , hut no traces ot flooring have been found . It measures 51 ft . by 28 ft ., and seems to have been one room . To the east of this lay another large apartment , measuring 68 ft . by 27 ft . 'Thus we find the whole interior of the building occupied by two large and two smaller ones where a heating apparatus has been . This is evidently

rooms , not a private house . I believe it is not a temple , and am inclined to regard it as a prsetorinm , a sort of town hall or court of justice , where the chief officer sat to hear causes and try offenders . We are told that " each particular city had its peculiar magistrates . The Pi-ajtor held ! a kind of assize once every year , and then decided a 1 causes of more than ordinary consequence ; sitting in great state upon a high tribunal , with his Lictors round himbearing rods for the backs and axes for the necks of the

, people . " Only one whole tile has been turned up , ancl it measures 7 inches square and 3 inches thick . Many fragments of Samian and other pottery have been found , and a quantity of red clay , from which the tiles seem to have been made . ( To be Continued . )

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