Volume 1

The gentleman's magazine library : being a classified collection of the chief contents of The gentleman's magazine from 1731 to 1868. Romano-British remains / edited by George Laurence Gomme.

Date:
1887
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Credit: The gentleman's magazine library : being a classified collection of the chief contents of The gentleman's magazine from 1731 to 1868. Romano-British remains / edited by George Laurence Gomme. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    spindle-whorls. Is it not probable that when this pottery was broken, the fragments were still esteemed as articles of rarity, or, from having been used by certain persons, were deposited with their ashes by surviving relatives or friends ? That this ware was imported, I think there is evidence in the small bowl above described. It bears the stamp of tiberi • m, who it is known was a Romano-Gaulish manu- facturer of this pottery, on the banks of the Allier, near the present village of Toulon, and a little out of the highroad from Paris. In The Gentleman's Magazine, Dec., i860, and the “Collectanea Antiqua,” vol. vi., notices are given of the potteries there discovered, with illustrations from an elaborate work by M. Edward ludot on the subject of the Romano-Gaulish Fictilia. One of M. Tudot’s illustra- tions is an autograph of this Tiberius the potter inscribed on a piece of ware with a stylus; and the cut is also given in the “ Collectanea, at page 68. [See Note 1.] James Wyatt. Berks. Blewberry. [1838, Part I.,pp. 47. 48-] I have now to invite the attention of your readers to some Roman remains in the parish of Blewbury or Blewberry, as it is variously spelt, the greater part of which lies in a detached part of the hundred of Reading, and is situated about four miles north-east by north from East Ilsley. This parish contains the chapelries of Aston Upthorpe and Upton, in the former of which, about a mile distant from the village of Blewbury, is situate Bluberdon or Blewbarton Hill, round which are several intrenchments which in some parts are fast disap- pearing by the operations of the plough ; on the Blewbury side of the hill, which is by far the most interesting, they remain in very fine preservation, and we are enabled to trace six perfect intrenchments, and portions of a seventh. A communication between the several intrenchments, widening gradually from the upper to the lower part, where its breadth is about forty yards, enabled the soldiers to meet from the several terraces therein, and pour forth in a tormidable body upon the plain. From the brow of the hill a good view is obtained of Sinodun Camp, the Willenham Hill of the present day, which is distant about six miles. Lowborough Hill, in the chapelry of Aston Upthorpe, is one of the highest spots in Berkshire, and commands on the south an extensive view as far as Beacon Hill, near Whitchurch, Hants .; to the west, along Cuckhamsly or Cwichelmes-low-hill, to Faringdon; and north- wards, the eye wanders beyond Oxford and the Wittenham hills. On the summit of Lowborough, a careful examination of the turf detects a slight elevation of it over the walls of buildings, the foundations of which are hidden beneath; it incloses an area about fifty-six yards