Notes on a Roman Building, and Interments. 



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Delicias dulces facit experienoia pene 



Conditurque bonum cognitione mali. 

 Felix qui uiuet consummatamque uidebit 



Ecclesiain, cura quam tot amena nitent. 

 1 Rex igitur det opes, presul det opem. lapioide 



Dent operam, tribus hiis est opus ut stet opus. 

 Regis enim uirtus facto spectabitur isto 



Presulis affectus artificumque fides. 



Explicit de Ecclesia Saresb : 



gtotfs on a §oman Jnilbing, anb gntetmtnte, 

 latelg btsco&errir at ^foiithon. 



By A. D. Passmoee. 

 (Read at the Swindon Meeting, 1898.) 



the beginning of February, 1897, while looking at a 

 quarry recently opened at Okus, near Westlecote Farm, 

 Old Swindon, I noticed several foundations of stone walls, which, 

 on closer examination, proved to be Roman and part of a large 

 building which once existed at this place. Situated on the southern 

 slope of Swindon Hill, well supplied with wood and water, the site 

 is a very favourable one, being near the great roads (the Ermine 

 Way is about two and a half miles distant) and commanding 



1 In the margin, in a hand of about the same time : — 



Rex largitur opes, fert presul opem, lapicide 

 Dant operam, tribus hiis est opus ut stet opus. 



TOL. XXX. — NO. XCI. P 



