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of them could be planned and carried out. A correct and complete 

 plan of Roman Britain containing all the late discoveries of Roads, 

 Camps, and Villas, would be an undertaking worthy of our own 

 Society, in conjunction with the Society of Antiquaries and kindred 

 Societies. In referring to Horsley's " B. R.," in the Library of 

 the Literary and Scientific Institution in Bath, and which was 

 bequeathed by Mr. Leman, Chancellor of Cloyne, I find a marginal 

 note on the course of this Iter, stating that he traced it in 1795 

 and 1796 and in 1805, and discovered the long lost station of 

 Verlucio at High Field, near Sandy Lane, at the exact distance 

 of 15 miles from Bath. He then specifies the direct course. 

 That much remains yet to be done by the antiquary in tracing 

 exactly the Lines of Roman Roads, and correctly naming the 

 Stations on them, is evident from remains that have been laid bare 

 witliin the last month in Walcot parish, on the north side of the 

 river Avon, at the point where the Cleveland Bridge unites the 

 parishes of Walcot and Bath^\dck. 



In the course of excavating for the foundation of a house, three 

 interments were laid open, two being in stone cists, one in a stone 

 cofiin. These were in a straight line, at some intei'val apart, i.e., 

 the stone cofiin lay by itself, and in it was found a perfect 

 skeleton, said to be that of a female, but the teeth were worn 

 perfectly flat at the crown of the tooth ; and the two cists were 

 covered with one stone. In the smaller cist were burnt bones, 

 but the covering having become detached from the larger one, 

 wliich had sunken, the bones had perished and the cist become filled 

 with mould. With these were found Roman pottery of various 

 kinds, some of the Samian is very delicate and the figures sharp 

 and well deUneated. These interments are in the line of the Via 

 Julia, as it leaves Bath for Marlborough. The road seems to have 

 run nearer to the river than the present street which marks its 

 line. I have sent rough sketches of these sepulchral remains from 

 drawings by Mr. Irvine, and in concluding this statement have 

 only to inform you that this morning the inteUigence has reached 

 me that in the course of clearing away the foundations of the old 

 White Hart Hotel, and at the level of the Roman City, another 



