FOOTPRINTS ON BRICK
Leicester's Roman excavations continue every year to open wider the page on which the Romans wrote the storv of their occupation there.
Sometimes little bits of lifo come to light between the lines. Nothing found recently is more tenderly reminiscent of .tlio.se days than the footprint of a tiny child on a brick of the Jewry wall—one of the finest pieces of Roman masonry left in England. By the side of the child's footprint is that of a dog going the opposite way. Both left their signatures on.the brick before it was dry. The picture comes clearjy before us: tin; child of Rome running one way where she ought not to have gone, over the drying bricks; the dog prancing gaily beside her, but suddenly turning round (we may bo suro) at the sound of the angry shout of the Roman brickmaker.
It might happen to-day. It happened about 18 centuries ago.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23263, 4 February 1939, Page 9 (Supplement)
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