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ground after the removal of the Brewery premises is rather sur- 
prising. A considerable number of much earlier date have, 
however, been dug up, and that is of considerable interest to 
those who make a study of the ancient history of Bath and the 
neighbourhood. 
The coins in question are of no great intrinsic value and only 
of inferior metal, but they date from the time of Nero, 54—-68 A.D. 
to Gratian, at the end of the 4th century, and are about 50 in 
number. 
At the same place was also discovered a small Roman altar 
about a foot high, which, from its appearance, had evidently seen 
considerable service. Of other remains I have heard nothing, 
although there certainly was a villa of considerable size some- 
where near the Old Bath College, which is evidenced by the 
midden which exists in Sydney Gardens, just outside the boundary 
of the playground. We should scarcely expect to find any old 
buildings so near what must have been a marsh in those ancient 
days, but the alterations which took place in Bathwick parish at 
the end of the 18th century make it hard for us to realise the 
proper or original position of the parish, and why it was that 
(6 Anne, 1706) in the first Act of Parliament for improving the 
roads of Bath, lighting the city and fixing the fares for chairmen, 
parts of Walcot should be included and no mention made of 
Bathwick, which now is so close to the centre of the city. 
_Bathwick was then a collection of about 50 houses stretching 
from the old Bathwick Church along what is now Bathwick 
Street, and the way from the city to the parish by means of 
the ferry at Monk’s Mill was used more for the purpose of going 
through the fields to Hampton Down, possibly by a road up 
Bathwick Hill, or up the path from the canal near Cleveland 
House, and which now crosses the North Walk at Queenborough. 
But the chief point of interest is that as Bathwick was always held 
with Woolley there must have been direct communication 
between the two parishes, and the position of Walcot exactly 
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