VOL. XV. (1) ROMAN OCCUPATION OF GLOUCESTER 45 
ON SOME FURTHER EVIDENCE 
OF 
THE ROMAN OCCUPATION OF GLOUCESTER 
BY 
M. H. MEDLAND, F.R.I.B.A. 
(Read February 9th, 1904) 
Whilst excavations were being made, during the summer 
of 1903, for foundations for the front wall of new offices 
for the Gloucester Railway-Carriage and Wagon Company, 
in Bristol Road, a bed of stones (of various descriptions, 
embedded in clay, and of an average thickness of two feet) 
was found at a depth of six feet from the pavement level, 
and extended the whole length of the building (some 133 
feet) : the bottom of the deposit being eight feet below the 
- level of the pavement. 
The bed of stones, which extended westward from the 
street some twelve feet, was covered with a bed of compact 
yellow clay, three feet thick, which showed no apparent 
sign of interference by human agency. 
In consequence of the great variety of sub-angular 
stones that were found, and the worn and scratched con- 
dition of many of them, together with the condition under 
which they were found, namely, under a bed of clay three 
feet thick, it was at first surmised that the stones had been 
deposited by the stranding of an iceberg or ice-floe. The 
subsequent discovery, however, of fragments of thin brick 
and tile among the stones, and pottery and horse-shoes 
