An Ancient City.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 14056, 13 November 1909, Page 4 (Supplement)

An Ancient City.

FINEST IN ROMAN BRITAIN. Discoveries of great value to antiquarians have been made at the recently excavated Roman .station of Corstopifcum-on-Tyne. Professor HaverfieUl, of Oxford, conducted a party of Newcastle and Glasgow antiquarians .)vcr the station recently, and expressed the opinion that these discoveries were of " unparalleled importance." .some of the art specimens found being among the most remarkable reproductions of Roman art yet seen.

Of one large building the Professor said that the masonry was finer and more solid than anything he had ever seen in Roman Britain —even at Bath. From its character lie believed it to be such a building as would have been erected only by the State itself —and probably only by the military authorities of the State.

The first century pottery examples which had been found showed clearly that the colony there was in existence at the time of Agricola, and would go to prove that Watling-street really dated further back than was generally supposed.

Professor R. Newstead, lecturing at the Grosvenor Museum. Chester, before the Cambrian Archaeological Association, showed a paleolithic implement found at Chester last year. Such implements were not. usually found north of a line drawn from the Wash to the Severn. Sir Henrv Howard said that it was the first 'really important one of those objects. Quite lately there had been a Ix.ok published which announced a series of similar objects fa on rid north of tin's line. The fact of finding a mammoth in Cheshire tinder the northern drift was a very famous discovery thirty years ago. which was thought to be a'verv critical timr- i n tho history of surface deposits. It was now complemented by tiie discovery of tin's particular axe.