1 2 British and Roman Antiquities of Bath. 



at Gloucester, and a body of cavalry at Cirencester, but no 

 bricks or stones having a legionary stamp or that of a cohort 

 have been found in Bath, as at the former places. 



At Wellow-, about four miles S. from the city, 



Roman Villas. . . . , .,, . , , ^ i .^ j 



IS the Site of a villa, with good tesselated 

 pavements, which, though now covered, remain in situ, and 

 have been drawn and engraved ; as also have those found 

 on the site of a villa near Newton St. Loe. Villas have 

 also been found at Colerne, and near Tracey Park, at Box, 

 at Warley, and on the skirts of Lansdown. These indicate 

 a settled condition of the country, improvement of the land, 

 and the introduction of more civilized life. 



At Wellow can also be seen a large chambered tumulus, 

 not far from the site of the Roman villa. This has been 

 described and drawn in the " Archaeologia," and. in the 

 ^^Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archmological and Natural 

 History Society" vol. viii., p. 35. 



A Ust of Roman Vjllas is given in "Aquae Solis," (p. 112 

 and following). The principal are at Wellow, the pavements 

 of which were drawn and published by the Rev. J. Skinner, 

 Rector of Camerton, 1823 ; at Newton St. Loe, in which was 

 a tesselated pavement, drawn in "Aquae Solis," p. 115; at 

 Combe Down, (see p. 115 for drawings of the Roman Pot- 

 tery and Glass found on the site, also for interments, an ac- 

 count of which is given in the " Proceedings of the Somer- 

 setshire Arch(Bological and Natural History Society," vol. v., 

 pp. 59, 60); at Warleigh, where a sculptured capital was 

 found, now in the Museum of the Bath Literary and 

 Scientific Institution, (see "Aquae Solis," p. 119); also at 

 Hazlebury Farm, see Dr. Musgrave's " Belgium Britanicum," 

 and "Aquae Solis," p. 120; at Farley Castle, between that 

 place and Iford; at Colerne, Wilts., (see Archceological 



