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III.—The Gates of Roman Lincoln

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2011

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The Royal Archaeological Institute held its summer meeting in 1946 in Lincoln and members were able to inspect excavations undertaken by the Lincoln Archaeological Research Committee, formed in the previous year. Volume 103 of the Archaeological Journal was published in 1947 and was largely devoted to the archaeology of Lincoln and Lincolnshire. A notable feature was the late Sir Ian Richmond's paper, ‘The Roman City of Lincoln’, in which he synthesized the widely scattered evidence into one coherent picture, followed by an equally valuable general study, ‘The Four Coloniae of Roman Britain’. His account of Roman Lincoln included a section on the four gates of the original colonia on the hill-top above the Witham (fig. 1), in which he included reconstructed plans of those on the north and south. It would have been remarkable if all his conjectures had proved accurate; he was already aware, well before his death, of the extent to which excavation had corrected his suggestions and was able to make a brief mention of this in print.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1973

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