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the Pump Room. In 1754 an altar to the Leucetian Mars was 
found in the upper part of Stall Street. About this date also an 
altar by one Sulinus was found at the lower end of Stall Street. In 
1727 when digging a sewer in the centre of Stall Street, about 
sixteen feet below the surface was found the well known bronze 
or brass head called that of Apollo. When this was found there 
was such good evidence of the whole statue remaining in the same 
spot that a number of curious gentlemen entered into a subscrip- 
tion to indemnify for digging for it, but the Corporation absurdly 
refused lest the course of the water should be affected by the 
search.* There is thus possibly a good find awaiting and ready 
for some one. The Society of Antiquaries offered a tempting 
price for the head but could not get it.- There was yet another 
find in this year near the same spot, of which a careful account 
with a coloured drawing, here reproduced, is preserved for us in 
the British Museum. It is entitled a representation of the 
subterranean antient stoves as discovered in 1727 in Bath where 
the brass head was found near 16 feet below the surface of the 
street. It was drawn and measured upon the place “at Bath 
20 Aug 1727 by Bernard Lens” and copied by Priscilla Combe. 
The original is now in the Bedleian. _ The top line represents the 
street or road surface, which was vaulted or underbuilt with wood 
for support whilst a sewer was being laid. The “east side” of 
this vault is shown “as it runs upwards the street.” The top of 
the ladder is ‘‘ the mouth of the hole dug over against Alderman 
Ford’s house in Stall St. the 25 July 1727, to make a common 
sewer in the middle of the street and to convey the drains of the 
neighbouring houses by that means into the antient sewer” which 
is emptied in the river about ten yards westward of the bridge. 
This sewer is seen in the drawing descending in the lowest right 
hand corner. The depth of the hole was 15 ft. 10 inches. Just 
* Gough “Topography,” p. 192. 
+ “ Cruttwell’s Guide, 1784.” 
