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Title: The Towns of Roman Britain

Author: James Oliver Bevan

Release Date: July 3, 2010 [EBook #33059]

Language: English

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[Frontispiece: Roman Britain shewing the chief Roman Roads.]

THE TOWNS OF ROMAN BRITAIN

By the

Rev. J. O. Bevan,
M.A., F.G.S., Assoc. Inst. C.E., F.S.A.;
Fellow of the College of Preceptors and Examiner, Sometime Prizeman,
Exhibitioner and Foundation Scholar of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Author of
"_The Genesis and Evolution of the Individual Soul_"
"_Egypt and the Egyptians_"
"_University Life in the Middle Ages_"
"_Handbook of the History and Development of Philosophy_"
"_Archaeological Map of Herefordshire_"
and numerous other Works.

London
Chapman & Hall, Ltd.
1917
[All Rights Reserved]

THE WESTMINSTER PRESS
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PREFACE

The Author writes the last line of this book with a sigh at the
incompleteness of his work. He is conscious he has touched but the
fringe of the mantle covering the form of the silent Muse of History,
but his efforts will be justified if he succeeds in persuading even a
single student to persevere and lead the fair Clio to disclose the
full story of which broken whispers are here recorded. No one can
doubt the fascination of this page of our nation's development,
dealing as it does with the dawn of that day of which, please God,
the complete effulgence will shine more and more to the perfect end.

In this brochure attention has been chiefly directed to the _towns_
of Roman Britain, as it would have required a volume of stupendous
size to formulate a record of sites associated with isolated
settlements, camps, burrows, "and bowers," or grounds whereon sports
were conducted. Again, there are spots of interest more or less
connected with Roman occupation, in tradition or in fact, such as
Alderney,[1] Porchester,[2] Glastonbury, Avebury, Arbow Low in
Derbyshire, Stripple Stones, on Bodmin Moor, in Cornwall, the
hill-fort in Parc-y-