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Identifier: shorthistoryofen00chey (find matches)
Title: A short history of England
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Cheyney, Edward Potts, 1861-1947
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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are now represented by merevillages or by a few mounds or pieces of wall in the open xntry.The location of a great many of the Roman towns is shown bythe termination ••caster, cester, or chester in the modernnames. All these forms represent the Latin word castra, a camp,and almost invariably show that a military post was establishedthere in Roman times.1 Some others, as Lincoln, have the termi-nation from the Latin word co/oma. In most of these places andin many others remains of Roman buildings still exist which showthat they were in Roman times not merely military camps, asmight be inferred from the names, but populous towns with publicbuildings, temples, shops, and dwelling houses. The walled por-tion of the towns was small, but extensive suburbs probablysurrounded them. 1 Instances of this are Lancaster. Doncaster. Ancaster. Tadcaster. Bran-caster. Chester. Chichester, Cirencester. Leicester. Gloucester. Dorchester.Ilchester, Manchester. Rochester, Silchester. and many others.
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ROMAN BRITAIN 25 14. Roman Building.—The walls of these towns, as in allRoman building, were massive, provided with towers, gateways,and guardrooms. The materials for building were largely stoneand mortar, the stones on the outer surface being almostinvariably squared and carefully fitted together. Along with thedressed stones were used a great many bricks or tiles of burnedclay, longer and broader, but thinner, than modern bricks. Bothon stones and bricks the masons or brickmakers signs or initialswere often placed. Inscribed tablets were also very commonlyused for memorials. From these inscriptions much of our knowl- edge of Roman Brit-ain is obtained. Thematerials used by theRomans in theirbuildings were sogood that many oftheir structures stillexist after almost twothousand years ofneglect and exposure.The most famousRoman structure inBritain was the wall :; I r\ ^

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