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backward, along the space between Berkeley Street and the 

 Shire Hall. This building stands partly in the " made 

 ground" of the ditch of the city ; and as a consequence it 

 shows a cracJe all the way down its main wall, in the side 

 next Berkeley Street. Thia cracking of walls, and settlement 

 out of perpendicular, resulting from building partly on the wall 

 and partly in the ditch, has been one of my aids in discovering 

 the line of the old fortification at various points. My own 

 premises have a magnificent crack running through the centre, 

 which, to any person of taste, enhances their value by several 

 pounds a year. 



Perhaps the most striking effects of this uneven substructure 

 are to be seen in coming into Gloucester from the Station via 

 King Street. The warehouse at the end of this street next the 

 Cattle Market is nearly a foot out of perpendicular, and is only 

 kept from falling by several brick buttresses at the back, in the 

 ditch. Some of the houses on the right side of Aldate Street, 

 looking towards the North Gate, are in similar plight. 



Let me now briefly mention the points along which the wall 

 runs, in order that anyone who wishes, may trace it for himself. 

 The Ordnance Survey will at some future period publish a map 

 of Gloucester, which will show its track ; but it may not be for 

 some years to come. [See the accompanying plan, in which 

 the red line indicates the wall and the position of the gates.] 



Beginning opposite Eastgate House, it first passes under 

 the shop now occupied by Neininger, the watchmaker, who 

 lately removed a portion of it to build the cellar of the first 

 house on the left of Queen Street. The large facing -stones of 

 part of the wall were taken out by the masons, and several of 

 them set on the opposite side of the cellar. I mention this to put 

 any archaeologist on his guard against mistaking their present 

 position for their original one ; which might easily be done by 

 a stranger. One of these large stones is recessed for an inscrip- 

 tion, either legionary or centurial ; but I fear the letters are 

 injured beyond the possibility of deciphering. Above the courses 

 of these large stones the core or centre of the wall was of 

 herring-bone work^ exactly like that now so unfortunately visible 



