YORK UNDER CAESAR.
URIQUE RELIC OF ROMAN TUV3ES.
Historic York, where Constantine was declared Caesar, has just found a new witness to its great past. Archaeologists diging in the massive ramparts of the city wall have come upon parts of the old Roman wall, which they say i 3, probably the finest of Its kind in Europe. So far as is known, it is the only one complete from foot to parapet, having still the original rampart walk of the fortress. This wall belongs to the period of the great Trajan, the most energetic of all the Caesars. Before it was built York was defended by palisades, but it seems that after a great disaster in Scotland the Romans strengthened the fortress. We know that the Scots almost destroyed the Ninth Legion, which had heen stationed in York.
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Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16712, 30 January 1926, Page 14 (Supplement)
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138YORK UNDER CAESAR. Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16712, 30 January 1926, Page 14 (Supplement)
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