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 68 FRANCIS HAVERFIELD January Worcestershire (1901), Northamptonshire (1902), Warwickshire (1904), Derbyshire (1905), Somerset (1906), and Shropshire (1908), this last in conjunction with Miss M. V. Taylor.^ He planned but never accomplished a description of Roman remains in the six northern English counties, which was to have formed a single volume in the Victoria County History series. We have lost much in not having such a work from his pen, for no one was better qualified than he was to write a new account of Hadrian's Wall which would have embodied the archaeological discoveries of the last half-century.^ He did not confine his archaeological surveys to English counties, for he published in the Transactions of the Cymmrodorion Society a paper on the * Militai-y Aspects of Roman Walls ' which is an exhaustive siu*vey of Roman forts in the principality, and set forth the scanty Roman finds made in Ireland in a paper on ' Ancient Rome and Ireland ' contributed to this Review.^ The fortunes of individual Romano -British towns had special attractions for him. In addition to the accounts of Bath "* and Wroxeter given in the Victoria County Histories of Somerset and Shropshire, and of Verulamium in the Report of the Historical Monuments Commission for Hertfordshire, he contributed an account of Roman London to the first volume of the Journal of Roman Studies, and left behind him descriptions of Cirencester and of Leicester which are appearing posthumously in Arcliaeologia and in the Archaeological Journal respectively. He preferred to treat of aspects of Roman Britain rather than to produce a chronological naiTative of events. His paper on ' Early British Christianity ', which appeared in this Review,^ is the classical exposition of the evidence for Christianity in Britain during the Roman epoch. He was the author of two excel- lent chapters in the fu-st volume of Traill's Social England, one on the Roman army in Britain, the other on Romano-British art and architecture. His interest in architecture was primarily an interest in architectural ground-plan, and led him on to that general survey of * Ancient Town Planning ' which he delivered of a manuscript bibliography of Professor Haverfield's articles and for information regarding his unpublished and projected work. ' He has left in manuscript a lecture on the Roman Wall. This he had intended to expand and publish as a section of the Victoria County History volume and also as a separate work. He also contributed to the ninth volume of the new History of Northumberland, published under my editorship, a detailed survey of a portion of the Wall district, namely of Roman remains in the parish of Corbridge. ' Transactions of Cyntmrodorion, 1908-9, pp. 53-187 ; ante, xxviii. 1-12. him dates back to the days when he was a boy at a preparatory school in that city.
 * I take this opportunity of expressing my obligations to Miss Taylor for the loan
 * Bath peculiarly interested him ; for the hold which Roman antiquities had upon
 * AnU, xi. 417-30.