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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 November 2011
Excavations were carried out by the Verulamium Excavation Committee, on behalf of the Research Committee of this Society, for a fourth season lasting 7½ weeks in July and August 1958. Work was confined to two areas. The plan of the extra-mural building (Site S) north-east of Verulamium on the opposite side of the river, beside the A5 road, was recovered in so far as affected by the new road which is soon to cover it; the remainder of the work was devoted towards completing the plans of, and obtaining the fullest information about, sites in Insulae XIV and XXVIII, which had been already partly explored in 1957. Those parts are already sealed under the new road; if the Committee fails to explore the remainder of such buildings, in so far as they extend outside the area of the new road, before pegs and landmarks disappear it will never be possible to complete the plans accurately. In view of the importance of most of the buildings which need further treatment in this way, it is to be hoped that support will not fail before the work is done.
page 3 note 1 Antiq. Journ. xxxviii, 4 et seq.
page 3 note 2 Since this report was written an examination by Mr. B. R. Hartley, F.S.A., of all the samian from the burnt deposits has made it likely that the fire was in fact rather earlier than this, the collection being Antonine I in character. A consideration of all the evidence will probably define the date of the fire as falling between A.D. 160 and 180, perhaps even between A.D. 160 and 170.
page 3 note 3 This date seems preferable to 61: see Syme, , Tacitus, p. 765.Google Scholar
page 4 note 1 I am indebted to Dr. Ian Cornwall for examining samples of this material.
page 4 note 2 Arch. Ael. 4 xxx, 242.
page 6 note 1 Fig. 3 shows the plan of the latest of these four phases. See pl. vc for a floor belonging to an intermediate phase.
page 6 note 2 To be published in Num. Chron. by Dr. C. M. Kraay.
page 10 note 2 R. E. M. and T. V. Wheeler, Verulamium, a Belgic and Two Roman Cities.
page 11 note 1 The street dividing Insulae XIV and XXVIII is only 10 ft. wide and was contemporary with building XXVIII, I–i.e. it was little more than an alley, though leading to the south entrance to the theatre (fig. 1).
page 12 note 1 Suitable for a cult-statue almost life-size.
page 12 note 2 Room 3 will have been the attendant's office. Professor Richmond reminds me of the passage in Suetonius's Life of Vespasian (23, 3; cf. Dio. lxvi, 14, and Juvenal, iii, 38) recording the imposition of a tax on this form of enterprise. The inference that there were profits to be made can be drawn, more especially in the Rome case, since it seems that the urine collected was sold to the fullers for cleaning woollens and to the tanners, which does not seem to have happened in the Verulamium case, or at least there is no evidence for it; nevertheless it would not occur to anyone to add such an establishment to his town house unless the profit motive was there. Philanthropy in this case is not enough.
page 13 note 1 Op. cit., pl. XLVII and p. 147.
page 13 note 2 The method was described in Antiq. Journ. xxxviii, 12–13, and more fully in Antiquity, xxxii (1958), 116–19.
page 17 note 1 Changes in the dating of samian and Castor ware in recent years would make such a reappraisal possible.
page 18 note 1 Szilágji, in Carnuntina (1956)Google Scholar taf. xxiv. 1
