Homan OiJlas tiiscolJi^rcti in Dorset* 



Their Sites and the Relics found therein 



WHICH Throw Light upon the Civil Life of their 



Occupants. 



{Being the Mansel-Pleydell Prize Essay for 1912-1913.) 



By the Rev. Canon T. E. USHERWOOD, M.A. 



Introduction. 



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d\\ be well at the outset to place before our 

 minds as clearly as possible what it is 

 our purpose in the following pages to 

 endeavour to show. 



We are to examine the rehcs of Roman 



life in Dorset which have come to light, 



and to learn from them, as much as may 



be possible, what was the condition of the 



civil life of those Roman visitors to these 



British shores, and the extent to which that civilisation 



which they introduced operated upon the less-civilised Briton 



with whom Rome now for the first time came in contact. 



To the early Greeks all foreigners were " barbarians " 

 without exception, and the term, originally Greek, was 

 adopted by Rome, and under this name the Romans were 



