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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (13889164208).jpg OF MONTE SOMMA AND VESUVIUS <br> 87 <br> glass and fresco some tiles c These were submitted to my archae- <br> ological friend S Stevens Esq of Naples who pronounces them to <br> belong to a period ranging back at least a century before the Chris- <br> Fig 1 ” Section exhibited in the North BanJc of the Lagno di <br> Trocchia Mt Somma <br> a Vegetable soil <br> b Alluvial breccia <br> c Black pumice ;us scoria Phase YII Period 4 <br> d Alluvium <br> e AUuvium veitli potsherds fragments of glass tiles c <br> / Spongy grey pumice Phase VI Period 2 <br> g Walls of an old Eoman house <br> tian era Naturally such debris can carry no accurate date with <br> them yet amongst the fragments collected was a piece of a dolium <br> or oil-jar bearing an early inscription which seems to show a farm- <br> house built about B C 150 and probably deserted somewhere near <br> the Christian era or perhaps later Another bit of evidence of a <br> similar kind is the foundation of a villa seen in section in the <br> Lagno Genzano on its western side The base of these ruined walls <br> and of a cistern well preserved is built upon and into the pre- <br> Plinian pumice but nowhere reach its bottom The building seems <br> to have been of some importance if we may judge from the sections <br> of Doric columns scattered about which are cut out of Nocerine <br> tufa According to Mr Stevens's opinion these certainly belong to <br> a period anterior to the Christian era 36940848 113697 51125 Page 87 Text 40 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36940848 1884 Geological Society of London NameFound Somma Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 40 1884 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36940848 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36940848 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-04-30 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/13889164208 2015-08-26 05 56 17 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1884 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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