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Second Edition, Greatly Enlarged
With Twenty-One Illustrations
Oxfordat the Clarendon Press
1912
[Illustration: HEAD OF GORGON, FROM THE PEDIMENT OF THE TEMPLE OF SUL
MINERVA AT BATH (1/7). (SEE PAGE 42.)]
Henry Frowde
Publisher to the University of Oxford
London, Edinburgh, New York
Toronto And Melbourne
The following paper was originally read to the British Academy in 1905,and published in the second Volume of its Proceedings (pp. 185-217) andin a separate form (London, Frowde). The latter has been sometime out ofprint, and, as there was apparently some demand for a reprint, theDelegates of the Press have consented to issue a revised and enlargededition. I have added considerably to both text and illustrations andcorrected where it seemed necessary, and I have endeavoured so to wordthe matter that the text, though not the footnotes, can be read by anyone who is interested in the subject, without any special knowledge ofLatin.
OXFORD, April 22, 1912
Head of Gorgon from Bath. (From a photograph) Frontispiece
1. The Civil and Military Districts of Britain
2, 3, and 4. Inscribed tiles from Silchester. (From photographs)
5. Inscribed tile from Silchester. (From a drawing by Sir E. M.
Thompson)
6. Inscribed tile from Plaxtol, Kent, and reconstruction of lettering.
(From photographs)
7. Ground-plans of Romano-British Temples. (From Archaeologia)
8. Ground-plan of Corridor House, Frilford. (From plan by Sir A. J. Evans)
9. Ground-plan of Roman House at Northleigh, Oxfordshire
10. Plan of a part of Silchester, showing the arrangement of the private houses and the Forum and Christian Church. (From Archaeologia)
11. Painted pattern on wall-plaster at Silchester.(Restoration by
G. E. Fox in Archaeologia)
12. Plan of British Village at Din Lligwy. (From Archaeologia
Cambrensis)
13. Late Celtic Metal Work in the British Museum.(From a photograph)
14. Fragments of New F