| Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society - 1865 - 730 pages
...furnished the materials of the upper portions, and that the stone walls were only carried to a certain height above the ground-floors. The remains seem to...hastily plundered, and then set fire to, and that the roof and timbers fell in upon the floors, which are found often indented, and covered with burnt matter,... | |
| 1885 - 784 pages
...before the period of the Saxon invasion." The remains of numerous villas in the neighbourhood of Bath " seem to indicate that they were hastily plundered...indented and covered with burnt matter and roofing tiles" (Scarth's Roman Bath, p. 128). In addition to these proofs, there have been found at Ribchester, Silchester,... | |
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