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all over the space enclosed in the well. Lucas, writing abont 120 

 years ago, stated that water rose through the stones all over the King's 

 Bath. In 1811 a well was sunk to enable the water to collect together 

 and to rise in the centre, and this was to a great extent successful. 

 He exhibited a number of things found in the course of the work. 

 The first was a vase, he supposed of tin, found some 100ft. distant 

 from the bath in the drain. He had taken it to London to ascertain 

 a date, but neither the Society of Antiquaries nor the British Museum 

 had anything of the precise shape, but he afterwards found beneath 

 the King's Bath another of the same make, as well as a flat dish or 

 paten, a smaller one, and a small vessel and a cover, which proved 

 apart from the evidence of form that they were Eoman. He found by 

 measurement that these vases contained about a pint and a half, or a 

 sextarius. All those things had been cast and turned. He also found 

 near Bath Street an earthenware vessel holding the tenth part of an 

 amphora or three times one of the sextarii. He had also found a few 

 copper coins, only two of tlieni lioman. What had been found had 

 been only by accident, for they were working for the Corporation, and 

 the men were not allowed to spend any time in searching what they 

 turned up witli their spades. He had found stones worked by the 

 Romans, pottery, and a column of worked stone covered with iron 

 pyrites which Mr. Ekin assured him was very remarkable. He also 

 found a well stone covered witli iron pyrites, and there was a similar 

 deposit of a very beautiful character on the upper oak plug, which he 

 exhibited. In the course of the work he found numerous proofs that 

 the Roman baths were from the first built below the natural surface of 

 the soil so as to fill them by gravitation, instead of the costly plan of 

 pumping which the wise councillors of a later age had adopted. The 

 ruins of the. Roman city filled them up, and the new batlis were built 

 upon their site in ignorance of their very existence, so that by 

 excavating it would be possible to discover their whole form. He was 

 satisfied that whenever this was done it would be found that the 

 system of baths was much more extensive than had been imagined, 

 and that the plan in " Aquas Soils " did not represent their full extent, 

 even to the eastward. The well was largely filled up by sand and 

 decayed vegetable matter, nuts, sticks, and so on. These were 

 occasionally brought up by the water, and hence the theoiy that had 

 been propounded that the waters came through a geological forest and 



