The Ruins of the Roman City of Uriconium, at Wroxeter, near ShrewsburyWright, Thomas
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The Ruins of the Roman City of Uriconium, at Wroxeter, near Shrewsbury
Wright, Thomas
Romans -- England -- Wroxeter; Wroxeter (England) -- Antiquities, Roman
Returning to the steps by which these hypocausts were entered, at D, the
floor from which we descended appears to have an opening of some kind to
the west, which looked down upon a court outside the semicircular end of
the hypocaust F, which from this point presents to the view an imposing
mass of masonry. In the corner just under this opening the remains of a
very young child were found, which we might almost imagine to have been
slaughtered in the room above, and thrown out into the court. This
court, or open space, seems to have been continued to the wall _a a_, and
to have been entered by a doorway in that wall at _g_, which was
approached from the passage to the north by a step formed by a large
squared stone. On the outside of the semicircular end of the hypocaust
F, lay, as if it had fallen or been thrown down, an immense stone,
carefully worked into the shape of the arc of a circle, and no doubt
forming one of a course at some unknown elevation in the wall. On the
outward side of it, a large iron pin was soldered into it with lead,
evidently for the purpose of attaching some weighty object on the outer
side of the building.
Another step and doorway in the wall _a a_ was found at _h_, which must
have been much more frequented than the other, for the stone which formed
the step was worn in an extraordinary degree by the rubbing of footsteps.
It led to an inclosure P, which presents the appearance of having formed
public _latrinæ_; and which is separated by a long narrow inclosure from
the room already described as apparently the shop of a worker in metals.
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