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conquest of Britain. In connection with these forged Claudian coins, he 
mentioned that there is a mould in the Gloucester Museum which was placed 
there by a former Canon of the Cathedral, and which was reputed to be one 
of the Roman moulds for producing spurious money. The fact is that the 
Canon, who was much interested in the matter, had charged some workmen 
at Kingsholm to keep on the look-out for such instruments, and to bring any 
they might find to him. The demand created the supply, and before long a 
mould was brought to him, for which he paid the discoverers, and which he 
placed in the Museum. Mr Bellows was struck on examining this relic, by 
two suspicious points about it. One was its new look, for it was as fresh as if 
made a week before: of white pMster of Paris. The other was the true circle 
of the coin itself, for Roman coins are only roughly rounded ; never an exact 
circle. On getting an impression in putty from this cast, he found it to be 
that of a farthing, apparently William IV. It was, therefore, the forgery of 
a forgery. 
The Fourth and last Meeting was held as usual at the 
School of Science, Gloucester, on March 20th, 1888, but before 
the proceedings commenced, the President requested the Mem- 
bers to accompany him to the site of the house in the Hastgate 
Street, formerly occupied by Mr Margrett, and which has just 
been pulled down to erect a new building for the National 
Provincial Bank. On arrival at the place the President re- 
quested Mr John Bellows to kindly give the Members an 
explanation of these very interesting remains. 
Mr Bellows said— 
The pieces of pavement just laid bare are parts of the building dis- 
covered in 1806 during the erection of the Blue Coat School adjoining, and the 
portions then found are in the Museum. These formed the floor of the 
Pretorium, and there is evidence to show that they are among the oldest 
Roman pavements in the British Isles. In the year 43, Gloucester and 
Colchester (Glevum and Camalodunum) were made the great legionary 
garrisons at the two ends, respectively, of a line which was then the bound- 
ary of the Province—Britannia (afterwards called Britannia Prima). The 
system then followed, nearly that of the Polybian Camp, required the 
General’s quarters to be placed where this line of pavement occurs, with 
regard to the position of the ‘“‘Decuman” Gate and the Cross; points 
represented here by the East Gate and the Cross of Gloucester main streets. 
The General’s quarters or Pretorium had the Forum or Market facing them, 
and the reason why the present Eastgate Market, on the site of the old 
Corn Market, stands opposite the Blue Coat School, and this site of the new 
_ National Provincial Bank, is that it has succeeded the Roman Market which 
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