An Archæological Index to Remains of Antiquity of the Celtic, Romano-British, and Anglo-Saxon PeriodsJ. R. Smith, 1847 - 204 pages |
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Page 88 - The kilns were first carefully loose-packed with the articles to be fired, up to the height of the side walls. The circumference of the bulk was then gradually diminished, and finished in the shape of a dome. As this arrangement progressed, an attendant seems to have followed the packer, and thinly covered a layer of pots with coarse hay or grass. He then took some thin clay, the size of his hand, and laid it flat on the grass upon the vessels ; he then placed more grass on the edge of the clay just...
Page 87 - Nen and its tributary streams; the clay used at some of them appears to have been collected at some little distance from the works. " The kilns are all constructed on the same principle. A circular hole was dug, from three to four feet deep, and four in diameter, and walled round to the height of two feet. A furnace, onethird of the diameter of the kiln in length, communicated with the side. In the centre of the circle so formed was an oval pedestal, the height of the sides, with the end pointing...
Page 187 - Kings should obey the Laws." 3. " A Letter to the Clergy of the Church, known by the name of Unitas Fratrum, or Moravians, concerning a remarkable book of hymns used in their congregations, pointing out several inconsistencies and absurdities in the said book,
Page 85 - I was led to the conclusion that the blue and slate-coloured vessels met with here in such abundance, were coloured by suffocating the fire of the kiln at the time when its contents had acquired a degree of heat sufficient to ensure uniformity of colour.
Page 86 - ... of the grains. This might have been intended to modify expansion and contraction, as well as to assist the gradual distribution of the colouring vapour. The mouth of the furnace and top of the kiln were no doubt stopped ; thus we find every part of the kiln, from the inside wall to the earth on the outside, and every part of the clay wrappers of the dome penetrated with the colouring exhalation.
Page 20 - THE CROMLECHS. — After the investigation of about twenty of these chambers of the dead, and examining their contents, the result has been convincing and satisfactory as to their original use, and they can no longer be considered otherwise than as ancient catacombs, erected by a remote people.
Page 30 - ... until the corpse was reduced to ashes, or so that the flesh was consumed, and the bones nearly burnt; then the charcoal and ashes were covered with earth, and sometimes stones were laid upon it.
Page 24 - In the spaces between the props were lodged vases, bones, and skulls, as in a recess, after the manner of a catacomb. No attempt at orientation could be here adopted, and the bones were, from their position, brought to their final resting-place after the flesh had been removed by burning, or some other means. The burnt human bones appeared in distinct heaps, and the jars in contact had partaken of the colour of them. The very perfect calcination which had been adopted made it difficult to conceive...
Page 188 - II. 159. Remarks on the time employed in Caesar's Two Expeditions into Britain; by the Rev. Dr. Owen. II. 177. An account of a Roman Sepulchre found near York, in 1768; by John Barton, MD II. 181. Extract of Two Letters on Roman Antiquities discovered in Yorkshire, 1770; by Dr. J. Burton. II. 184. On the Construction of an Old Wall at Verulam; by— Webster. II. 286. Account of Roman Pavement at Colchester; by the Rev. Dr. Griffith. III. 35. On the Antiquity of Horseshoes; by Charles Rogers, Esq.
Page 93 - Rome, where the principal roads terminated, though the miles were not reckoned from it but from the gates of the city.