LECTUE.E 



ON THE 



REMAINS of a SOMAN VILLA Uncovered in Cold 

 Harbour Farm, near Tracy Park, October, 1865, 



BY THE 



REV. H. M. SCARTH, M.A. 



Traces of Roman work had long been known to exist in 

 fields lying underneath the northern declivity of Lansdown, 

 and situated nearly opposite to Tracy Park, the residence of 

 the Rev. C. R. Davy, who owns the property on which are 

 the remains that have lately been uncovered. About seven 

 years since I visited the spot with the Rev. H. T. Ellacombe, 

 F.SA. ; there were then numerous fragments of Roman 

 pottery, tile, and pieces of cut stone, lying in an arable field 

 adjoining the pasture field in which the Villa stood. In the 

 next arable field are the remains of an ancient Cromlech, 

 two upright stones of which now only remain, although 

 formerly there existed a third, and the whole was capped by 

 another large stone. The hedge which then divided these 

 fields is now removed, and the whole turned into arable land- 

 This Cromlech, which is marked in the Ordnance map, and 

 described as " Druidical Stones," has often been the object of 

 a v.-alk to the Bath Natural History and Antiquarian Field 

 Club, and their visits to it called attention to the peculiar 

 traces in the field adjoining, and led to the suspicion that the 



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