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inspect the excavation, and he came to the conclusion that the 
excavation shewed one of the piers where the bridge had, at some 
No. II. 
time, been broken down and repaired. He thought the rough work- 
ing on the stones at I was early Norman, while the drafting proved 
that it had been re-worked within 200 years. The other parts 
exposed, especially the stone at III, might be the early foundations, 
but he could not see anything that would lead him to suppose that 
the work was earlier than the eleventh or twelfth centuries. But 
Mr. Rye subsequently submitted the photographs to a gentleman of 
great experience in such matters, who expressed an opinion that the 
cross tooling of the stones shown in No. I is ‘suspiciously like 
Roman.” It would be very interesting to excavate and examine the 
other remains of piers in the same field with a view to settling the 
