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Roman inscriptions are occasionally set up. The Romanization of Britain was plainly no mere interlude, which passed without leaving a mark behind. But it was crossed by two hostile forges, a Celtic revival and an English invasion. Romilly Allen. But how far it was borrowed from Romano-British originals and how far from similar Roman-provincial work on the Continent, is not very clear.
Fantastic and even grotesque as it is, his work possesses a wholly unclassical fierceness and vigour, and not a few observers have remarked when seeing it that it recalls not the Roman world but the Middle Ages. Aeliana, 1908, p. 205. I owe to Dr. These exceptions to the ruling Roman-provincial culture are probably commoner in Britain than in the Celtic lands across the Channel.
Except the Gorgon, every worked or sculptured stone at Bath follows the classical conventions. Except the Castor and New Forest pottery, all the better earthenware in use in Britain obeys the same law. The kind that was most generally employed for all but the meaner purposes, was not Castor but Samian or terra sigillata. This ware is singularly characteristic of Roman-provincial art.
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