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AN
ACCOUN T
OF
ROMAN ANTIQUITIES
DISCOVERED AT
^OODCHESTER.
THE village of Woodchefter is fituated under a part of that range of high ground which forms the
eaftern boundary of the vale of Gloucefter, at an equal diftance of twelve miles from the
city of Gloucefter, and the town of Cirencefter.
Woodchefter is indicated (i), by its name, to have been a Roman ftation, and many Roman
Antiquities have been at different times difcovered there ; of thefe, the moft remarkable is a mofaic
Situation of
Woodchefter.
Roman antiqui-
'ties formerly
found there.
(i) The Saxon termination of ceaprep, from the Latin ca^rum, was ufually added to the names of fuch places.
A
pavement,