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At the eastern or opposite end, having the Fosse road for its 
‘poundary, is another bath on a smaller scale. This is known to 
‘be complete having hypocaust and all usual rooms fairly perfect. 
It was supplied from its own hot spring, which in later times was 
‘suppressed to avoid or prevent competition. Whether this was a 
public bath, say for women, or whether it was a private bath 
attached to some large house seems difficult to determine. The 
“sexes often bathed together then, as near the same spot they did 
long years afterwards, so that the large bath may have been 
sufficient for general use, If the Governor’s house could be 
placed hereabouts, nicely southward, in the sunshine, and on the 
high road, then it may rather be suggested that this bath was a 
private one attached to his house. The rooms seem too small for 
public use. Taking finally a view of the whole system we may 
imagine the ground open on the south having promenades and 
gardens and accomodation for various games. 
In the north east quarter, in the angle now formed by the 
corners of High Street and Cheap Street,may have stood the Forum 
and the Basilica, always an important official centre, the Market 
Place and Guildhall of our day, and not far in fact from the 
present offices. It is found so placed at Silchester, the only 
example known. In this biock too may be placed the principal 
shops and artificers, for it was along the high road by the North 
Gate, still known as the High Street, that all traffic passed. 
From the finds in the north west corner a different plan may be 
judged. In 1738 a tesselated pavement was found when the 
Mineral Water Hospital was being built, also another in 1859, 
and an inscription on marble in 1861, thus marking the site of.a 
house of some consequence, which probably occupied the frontage 
between our Union Passage and Parsonage Lane. In 1860.4 
tesselated pavement with other remains were found on the site of 
the Blue Coat School, showing another good house westward of 
the last and westward of our Parsonage Lane. ‘Tesselated pave- 
ments it may be concluded would be found only in the principal 
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