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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
In the immediate neighbourhood of my house in the village of Appleshaw, on the north-western border of Hampshire, the sites are unusually close together of those dwellings of the Romano-British period which are, with a certain vagueness, termed Roman villas. Appleshaw is distant five miles north-west from Andover; one mile north of Andover two Roman roads intersect, the one running from Old Sarum north-easterly to Silchester, the other from Winchester north-westerly to Cirencester. At Finkley, close to the point of intersection, pottery and other Roman material has from time to time been unearthed, and the locality is one of those which have, by a somewhat unconvincing reference to the Antonine itinerary and to etymology, been identified with the unascertained site of Vindomis. Imagine these two roads at their crossing to stand like an upright capital X over the town of Andover, with that town in the lowest angle; my own nearer neighbourhood will lie in the western or left-hand angle. Three-quarters of a mile east of my house is the lately-examined site upon which I have to report particularly this evening. One mile north and a little west (all the distances mentioned are measured in radius from my house) is a villa on the Redenham estate, excavated some fifty years back by Sir John Pollen, the landowner. It appears that no plans were made and no record kept.
page 8 note a Proceedings, 2nd S. iv. 425.
page 8 note b 2nd S. xii. 56.
page 12 note * Compare New Forest pottery, Archæologia, xxxv. pi. III. fig. 6.
page 13 note a The term “pewter,” in its strict or specific sense, is applied generally to two alloys of tin and lead of the following compositions:
English pewter: tin, 80 per cent., lead, 20 per cent.
French „ „ 83·5 „ „ 16·5 to 18 per cent.
In this paper the term is used generically for the sake of convenience, and includes tin-lead alloys, in which the proportions of the metals differ somewhat from the above.
page 13 note b For permission to make these analyses I am indebted to the courtesy of onr Secretary, Mr. C. H. Read.
page 17 note a Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, ix. 441.
page 17 note b Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London, 2nd Series, ii. 235.
page 17 note c Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, ix. 435 et seq.
page 17 note d G. Bapst, L'Etain, p. 41.
