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V.—The Roman House at Keynsham, Somerset

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2011

Arthur Bulleid  and
Dom Ethelbert Horne
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Keynsham is a village on the high road that runs between Bath and Bristol, and is distant from the latter city about four miles. In the year 1877 the then vicar and churchwardens of Keynsham, rinding the graveyard round the parish church incapable of either receiving any more burials or of being enlarged, purchased two and a half acres of ground to make a public cemetery. This was situated a quarter of a mile beyond the village, on the Bristol side, and was part of the fine stretch of meadow-land that borders the river Avon, being known as the Hams. Two mortuary chapels were built, adjoining one another, in the centre of the new cemetery, and the ground was thickly planted with trees. After the purchase of the land, the owner of a property adjoining it on its western side managed to get an embargo or restriction placed upon the use of the upper part for burials. The part so restricted was about a third of the original purchase. In 1908 the Parish Council, by the payment of a sum of money, had the restriction removed, but it was not until twelve years afterwards that the site was used for interments.

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Archaeologia , Volume 75 , 1926 , pp. 109 - 138
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1926

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page 112 note 1 Antiquaries Journal, ii, 371.Google Scholar

page 118 note 1 These were of the date of the ruin, and in no way connected with the modern cemetery.

page 128 note 1 The duplicated figure may also be intended for Europa. Ovid says: ‘[Europa] looked at him in wondering admiration, because he was so beautiful and friendly. But although he seemed so gentle, she was at first afraid to touch him. Presently she drew near, and held out flowers to his snow-white lips.’ Metamorphoses, bk. ii, lines 858–61, trans. F. J. Miller in Loeb Classical Library.

page 128 note 2 To enable this building to be found at a future time, the extreme west wall of the south hexagon room lies 145 ft. from the wall at the west end of the field, and the line of this measurement corresponds with the base of the road embankment.

page 132 note 1 The writers are indebted to Mr. H. St. George Gray for helping to name many of the sixty coins found, and particularly to Mr. Henry Symonds, F.S.A., for making out the above list.

page 136 note 1 These are described in the Antiquaries Journal for October 1922 (vol. ii, no. 4, p. 371). As these coffins were not fully excavated at the time, the two photographs of them are here given (pi. xx).