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Identifier: archaeologicaljo49brit (find matches)
Title: The Archaeological journal
Year: 1844 (1840s)
Authors: British Archaeological Association. Central Committee Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Central Committee Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Central Committee Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Council Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Royal Archaeological Institute (Great Britain)
Subjects: Archaeology -- Periodicals Middle Ages -- History Periodicals Great Britain -- Antiquities Periodicals
Publisher: (London : Longman, Rrown,(sic) Green, and Longman
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ny tesserae. There wasevidence of a fire having been kindled on this floor, anda. considerable quantity of charcoal was found in thecorridor. Parallel with this corridor ran another (D) 33 ft. long by 8 ft. broad, at an elevation of about 18 in. above thecorridor (C), with which it was connected by two concretesteps. This corridor had a tessellated pavement, with aborder of red tiles 11^ in. square across the north end.The tesserae were formed of white limestone and red tilefrom 1 in. to 1^ in. square. The red tesserae were arrangedso as to form a hollow parallelogram or (heraldicallyspeaking) an orle and a stripe running up the centre, each 9 in. wide, the stripe not reaching the orle by about a foot. The next chamber brought to light (E) ran at rightangles to the corridor (D) nearly due east of it, the breadthof the intervening wall, which had quite disappeared, beingabout 2 ft. The dimensions of this apartment were 27 ft.long by 10 ft. wide. The levels of (Z>) and (E) were ^>
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IN THE GREETWELL FIELDS NEAR LINCOLN. 20 1 different, but the steps connecting the two were wanting.The floor of this room or corridor was also tessellated inred and white, the white tesserae being arranged in rec-tangular hands, one inside the other, of about 9 in. inbreadth, and two longitudinal hands running up thecentre. At the east end of the apartment (E), and at rightangles to it, the space of the wall of separation being about18 inches, was the chamber (F), 27 ft. long by II ft. wide.The pavement exhibited four rectangular hands or orles,of red tesserae running all around the room, one inside theother, the remainder of the tesserae being of white lime-stone. This was succeeded by a very long corridor (G) ofL32 ft. in length and I.) ft. in breadth, running north andsouth, bearing about 6° west from the true north. Thefloor had a gradual rise from south to north of about 6 ft.to suit the inclination of the ground. This corridor alsohad a tessellated pavement, the pattern of whi

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