Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . Stone slab Tockington Park Farm PMe IX. Fig. 6, 3136 i/<K1/IS LITH. BKAC . The Roman Villa. 169 allegorical subjects. The tesserae also, we consider, harmonisesbetter in mosaic work with geometrical patterns than with thelast mentioned subjects. The relics found during the excavations have been compara-tively very few and much broken, which leads us to believe thatthe villa had been ransacked before—probably centuries ago, whenthe walls were razed to the foundations. This might have beenwhen the mediaeval, or si
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . Stone slab Tockington Park Farm PMe IX. Fig. 6, 3136 i/<K1/IS LITH. BKAC . The Roman Villa. 169 allegorical subjects. The tesserae also, we consider, harmonisesbetter in mosaic work with geometrical patterns than with thelast mentioned subjects. The relics found during the excavations have been compara-tively very few and much broken, which leads us to believe thatthe villa had been ransacked before—probably centuries ago, whenthe walls were razed to the foundations. This might have beenwhen the mediaeval, or sixteenth century, buildings were erected. We must not close our remarks without expressing our warmacknowledgments and thanks to the Rev. James Legard Peach,the owner of the pioperty, for his courteous permission to makethese and any future necessary excavations for the developmentof this villa ; to the contributors to the fund which has enabledus, thus far, to carry them out; to Mr. George D. Grossman,the steward, Mr. PuUen, the bailiff, and Mr. Richard Smith, theoccupier of the farm, for the great intere
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