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ROMAN MANCHESTER RE-STUDIED.
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boulders must have come from some improvised fireplace, just as we see the navvies putting them up now. The botanical specimens extricated from the pit are described separately. In addition it contained bones of domestic animals and cinders. Among the miscellaneous objects I have to name a broken tile, some black-ware with a peculiar metallic glaze, and rather heavy in weight; iron nails, lumps of burnt clay, and a large piece of tanned and dressed goat skin.
Unfortunately no other rubbish-hole has been discovered at Castlefield, although I have carefully searched every place; their rich and varied contents generally adds a large amount of collateral evidence.
List of Mosses
(Named by Messrs. Holt and Thomas Rogers).
| HABITAT. | |
| Thuidium tamariscinum | woods and banks. |
| ,,delicatulum | limestone rock in woods. |
| Hypnum cuspidatum | margins of pits, marshes (common). |
| ,,purum | shady banks, amongst grass. |
| ,,exanulatum | swamps and wet places. |
| Hylocomium splendens | on grassy banks, in woods (common). |
| ,,squarrosum | banks and woods (common). |
| Brachythecium rutabulum | on banks, walls, trees, and wet places. |
| Mnium affine | marshy places, shady woods. |
| Neckera complanata | on trunks of trees, walls, &c. |
| Polytrichum commune | on dry heaths and turfy grounds. |
| Aulacomnion palustre | turfy bogs and marshes'. |
| Sphagnum cymbifolium | bogs and turbaries. |
