Abstract
RECENT study of Roman Britain has profited on the whole more perhaps than any other branch of archæological research in Great Britain by cooperation between the national administrative body, the Office of Works, with its statutory powers, the local authority, and the local archæological society, representing expert knowledge and instructed interest. A conspicuous example of the success of such co-operation is afforded by the excavation of the Forum of Roman Leicester, of which a part, the so-called Old Jewry Wall, was handed over to the custody of the Office of Works so long ago as 1920, but of which it became possible to ascertain the true character only after the site had been acquired by the Corporation in 1935 for public baths. Thanks to an enlightened, but economical, solution of the financial problem on the part of the authority, public and private funds were able to combine to carry-out a thorough examination of the site in 1936 and 1937 under the direction of Miss Kathleen Kenyon, with the result that by a further public-spirited act on the part of the Corporation, Leicester now possesses one of the most striking and remarkable monuments of Roman Britain still surviving.
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Roman Britain. Nature 141, 938–939 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141938a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141938a0