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| 1520 of 1764 Document |
| Archive: | Manning | Unique ID: | 1676 | ||||||||
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Wittenham | Item No.: | 29 | No. of Sheets: | 3 |
| Title: | Newspaper cutting adhered to lined backing paper: 'The Daily Graphic, Monday, August 21, 1893'. | ||||
| Content: | An article entitled: 'A Buried City in Berkshire Revealed by the Growing Corn'. The article discusses the Roman site near the Anglo Saxon cemetery at Long Wittenham. Discusses the lines in the corn which first caught the attention of Mr Hewitt, the occupier of North Field Farm, on which the site lies, and the possiblity of them being Roman streets and a basilica, like those at Silchester. Then the article describes how Mr Hewett dug a small shaft in the field and discovered a Roman well from which he pulled five whole Roman vases, a small vessel of red ware, the base of a Samian bowl and a large variety of fragmentary Roman pottery. Fragments of a small oak bucket were also found in the well. White lime was also found in the field, and the article suggests that this might have been a Roman lime store. Also found on the site was a piece of Roman glass and some animal bones, including the domesticated Roman ox, Bos lonigfrons. The article concludes by mentioning that Hewett also found a stone celt, implying that there were earlier people than the Romans on the site. The start of a second article on Wittenham Church is also adhered to the sheet. Manning has made notes alongside the article. | ||||
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