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Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… Badminton BADMINTON (17 miles s.w. of Cirencester) A Roman mosaic pavement is said by John Aubrey to have been noted here c. 1686. 1 A Roman building in Badminton Park (ST 8083) was excavated by … in Luckington; here in 19602 copious 2nd to 4th-century Roman pottery was found, and also six 4th-century coins ( …
Ancient and Historical Monuments in the County of Gloucester
… Ptolemy's Corinion (A. L. F. Rivet in Civitas Capitals of Roman Britain, ed. Wacher (1966), 102), comprises two … Durotrigian coin, two late 3rd-century and two 4th-century Roman bronze coins. A miniature currency bar was perhaps … (including a Claudian type) and of flanged bowls of late Roman form. With these, at all levels and more abundant than …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Swale passes on the east, and on the west is the great Roman road now called Leeming-Lane. Balderston BALDERSTON, a … near the intersection of the great north road and the Roman Ikeneld-street, between two hills which command an …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… a lead spire on an octagonal drum, and is now coated with Roman cement. The 14th-century tower arch is two-centred, and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 147 The peculiar circumstances were that Pugin was a Roman Catholic; and on this ground, as well as from a desire …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Romans, which opinion is corroborated by the discovery of Roman coins and an altar, the latter relic having been … Presbyterians, and others; and a handsome and commodious Roman Catholic chapel recently erected. A Blue-coat school, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and of Sir Francis Walsingham. 11 Assertions that the Roman Catholic William Tresham (d. 1569) was vicar in Mary's …
A History of the County of Oxford
… route through Bampton formed part of an inferred minor Roman road which crossed the river Windrush at Gill Mill and … Both roads may have formed part of a more extensive Roman and early medieval network running north-east to … town, were probably also ancient, and like the inferred Roman road seem to have been diverted to funnel into the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… window- and door-heads of brick with false voussoirs of Roman cement, and small casement windows to the backs. The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… alleged in the Star Chamber that his attempts to restore Roman Catholicism in the town had met with insults from three … erected outside the church in 1917 as a war memorial. 275 Roman Catholicism. Although in 1590 the Puritan Thomas …