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On the Ancient Wall of Gloucester, and some Roman remains found 

 in proximity to it, in 1873. By John Bellows. 



Eastgate House, Gloucester, stands on the north side of 

 Eastgate Street, and occupies the site of the Castle which 

 formerly defended one of the principal entrances to the city. 



In the spring of 1873, whilst preparing to erect some buildings 

 on the premises at the back of this house, I toot the opportunity 

 of making a cutting at right angles to the line of the road-way, 

 with a view to discovering remains of the city wall, should any 

 such exist, under the surface. On the southern side of Eastgate 

 Street a portion of this wall had been removed in sinking the 

 foundation of the Co-operative Stores ; and further on between 

 Brunswick Road and Constitution Walk, a still larger mass of 

 it was taken away to make room for the School of Art. Some 

 of the stones from the latter spot now form the monument 

 which has been placed on the battle-ground at Barber's bridge, 

 since the publication of Capt. Price's paper in the proceedings 

 of the Club for 1872. 



With the assistance of J. D. T. ISTiblett, to whose acquaintance 

 with our local Antiquities the Cotteswold Club has been so 

 often indebted, I opened the ground at a point about 14 feet 

 from the side of King Street, and 100 feet back from Eastgate ; 

 and in the course of two hours had the satisfaction of laying 

 bare a part of the mass of masonry, which several members of 

 the Club may remember seeing on the afternoon of the Annual 

 Meeting, when some pieces of pottery and other articles found 

 in the excavation, were also offered to their inspection. 



So fresh was the appearance of the masonry, uncovered for 

 the first time after the lapse of centuries, that some of those 

 who examined it, expressed doubts as to the possibility of its 

 being Eonian : but as I have since that time laid it open along 



