Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1914 — Uncovering Roman City. [ARTICLE]

Uncovering Roman City.

The buried Roman city of Urtctfnium, in Shropshire, England, to gradually being “dug out.” The excavation will, it is expected, greatly add to ofir knowledge of the Romas occupation, and what was happening la Britain at that period. The etrvuH of the city measured about tkrea miles, and enclosed an area of 170 acres —that is, about TO acres larger than Pompeii. The excavators are now uncovering a large building will* a portico, on the street of 115 feet. This building has already been traced back 200 feet - It contained many rooms, some with rough mosaic pavements and others with cement floors. Four rooms bad hypocausts or hot air heating apparatus, in tbe coartyard was a large well, bufft of massive blocks of stone. That tbe fltto was occupied soon after the Claudlan invasion in 43 A. D. is shown *no tombstones of soldiers of the XIV. Legion. This legion came ever with Claudius, and left Britain for good la 70 A. D. The absence of cognomina on both tombstones point to a date rather before than after tbe year 6# A. D.