The archæology of Rome, Part 8

by John Henry Parker

ANIO NOVUS, CASTELLUM

LINE OF THE SPECUS OF ANIO NOVUS

Photogravure Dujardin, Paris

This is the loch below the modern bridge, which is made upon the remains of the old dam across the river, destroyed in the fourteenth century by making a hole at the bottom to let the water escape from a flood in the upper country. The force of the water once let loose soon destroyed the dam, and the large stones of which it was built are still lying as rocks in the river, and are seen in the photograph and the photo-engraving.

Line of the Specus of the Anio Novus. It is here carried in the cliff of the valley of the river Anio, seen on the left of the picture. Both of these views are continuations of those seen in Plate [IV.], and one helps to explain the other. The specus continued in this way for many miles underground, in one sense, when seen from above, but not underground when seen from below. When it has to cross the mouths of the small subsidiary streams that fall into the Anio, it has to be carried over bridges or arches, at other times it is cut in the rock or cliff.

Plate VI.

The Claudia, Anio Vetus, and Novus, and Marcia in the Valley of the Arches above Tivoli.

AQUEDUCTS—CLAUDIA AND ANIO-NOVUS.

IN THE VALLEY OF THE ARCHES, NEAR TIVOLI.