Uriconium: A Historical Account of the Ancient Roman City, and of the Excavations Made Upon Its Site, at Wroxeter, in Shropshire, Forming a Sketch of the Condition and History of the Welsh Border During the Roman Period |
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Page 245 - 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 laid on, and then more clay; and so on until he had completed the circle. By this time, the packer would have raised another tier of pots, the plasterer following as before, hanging the grass over the top edge...
Page 245 - ... round the edge ; another coating would be laid on as before described. Gravel or loam was then thrown up against the side wall where the clay wrappers were commenced, probably to secure the bricks and the clay coating. The kiln was...
Page 344 - ... nee ex eorum bonis plus inventum est quam quod sufficeret ad emendam pyram et picem quibus corpora cremarentur.
Page 328 - This year the Romans collected all the treasures that were in Britain, and some they hid in the earth, so that no one has since been able to find them ; and some they carried with them into Gaul.
Page 246 - ... subjects, representations of fishes, scrolls, and human figures, were all glazed after the figures were laid on ; where, however, the decorations are white, the vessels were glazed before the ornaments were added. Ornamenting with figures of animals was effected by means of sharp and blunt skewer instruments, and a slip of suitable consistency.
Page 245 - The vessel, after being thrown upon the wheel, would be allowed to become somewhat firm, but only sufficiently so for the purpose of the lathe. In the indented ware, the indenting would have to be performed with the vessel in as pliable a state as it could be taken from the lathe.
Page 244 - 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. As further proof that the colour of the ware was imparted by firing, I collected the clays of the neighbourhood, including specimens from the immediate vicinity of the smother-kilns.
Page 3 - The army next marched against the Silures, who, besides their own native ferocity, placed great hopes in the valour of Caractacus, whom the many changes and prosperous turns of fortune, had advanced to a pre-eminence over the rest of the British leaders. He, artfully availing himself of his knowledge of the country, countervailing his inferiority in numbers, transferred the war into the country of the Ordovices, and being joined by those who mistrusted the peace subsisting between us, put matters...
Page 244 - The mode of manufacturing the bricks of which these kilns are made, is worthy of notice. The clay was previously mixed with about one-third of rye in the chaff, which, being consumed by the fire, left cavities in the room 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...