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supposed to have passed up Guinea Lane to the head of Russell 
Street. At this point the two roads again diverged and the Fosse 
passed through the North Gate and left by the South Gate, 
crossing the river by a bridge.” He does not say how the road 
got to the North Gate from Russell Street or where his North Gate 
was, but the full result is gathered in conjunction with what is 
said on an earlier page (p. 8) when treating of the Roman walls, 
Here he writes, “the great Fosse road ran through the city from 
north to south entering it at what is now the eastern angle of the 
Mineral Water Hospital, and passing down Union Street and 
through Stall Street quitted the cityat theSouthGate.” The reading 
- of these two paragraphs together means that the Fosse road came 
down Russell Street to Union Street, where must have been the 
North Gate, and so passed on through the city southward. A very 
novel and strange idea. In this statement may perhaps be 
detected the key to the suggestion already noticed, that Bath was 
originally a full sized camp, as by the plan given in that argument 
the same route must have been followed for entering the city on 
the north side. There never was a gate at the spot here indicated. 
The North Gate was not at the top of Union Street, and further” 
Union Street is not a Roman street, nor on the site of one ; itis not 
even medieval but quite modern. The Roman street hereabouts 
would be the present Union Passage, a street as Roman in 
appearance now as when the Romans left, except that the houses 
on either side are higher. But more than this Stall Street is nota 
_ Roman street but an early English one, laid down say when the 
Priory grounds were enclosed and forming as we know their outer 
_ boundary along the western side. The many finds in this street 
_ prove this assertion. Although already often published a passing 
notice of some of these must be given to clear the argument. In 
1753 an inscribed stone was found when digging a cellar in the 
_ lower part of Stall Street ; four feet lower coins were found. In 
the same place other stones having inscriptions were found at the 
Same time. There was also a find in Stall Street at the west end of 
