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A ROMAN FORTIFIED HOUSE NEAR CARDIFF.—In the Journal of Roman Studies (vol. xi. Part i), Mr. R. E. M. Wheeler gives an elaborate account of a fortified Roman villa, about two miles west of the west bank of the river Ely, at the point where that river, though still tidal, first becomes fordable. He concludes that about A.D. 300 this work felLjnto line with the general defensive and offensive activities of the period. At a time when Romano-British towns seem to have built or strengthened their walls as the Welsh tribesmen did, it is not unnatural that a private householder should have followed the same example on a smaller scale. It is indeed rather matter for remark that other examples of domestic fortification in the late Roman period have been so rarely observed or recorded. The closest analogy is perhaps the partially excavated house and baths within the Castle Dykes near Ripon.
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Research Items. Nature 111, 647–648 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111647a0
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