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the foundations of the Old Abbey-house, and in preparing 

 the site for the present offices of the Union Board. These 

 are mostly of the time of Constantine. 



A coin of Augustus, found at Wellow, is now in the pos- 

 session of the ßev. C. Paul, the vicar. There has been 

 found at Wellow, a very fine pavement, on the site of a 

 large Roman villa. The foundations of many villas have 

 been discovered in that neighbourhood. 



With respect to the Roman coins, Mr. Morris infonns me 

 that " he has recently seen several Roman coins discovered 

 about twelve years ago, by the workmen employed in 

 elFecting alterations at Sainsbury's Brewery, Walcot. There 

 are two of Nero, one of Vespasian, two of Domitian, 

 a Carausius, and a Constantine, and a second brass of 

 Claudius." 



Mr. Hunter observes: " I have seen an account of a hoard 

 of Roman money, said to have been found near Walcot 

 Church, every piece of which was said to be of consider- 

 able rarity. It was given out that it must have been a 

 coUection of some Roman virtuoso ; but I have been told 

 that the whole was a fraud of a dealer in coins, then living 

 in Bath Street." 



If the length of this notice had not already been too far 

 extended, it woidd have been proper to have touched upon 

 the various articles of Roman dress which have been dis- 

 covered, and to have enumerated also the specimens of 

 household Utensils, by which the habits and manners of the 

 people may be inferred or described ; but we may not omit 

 to raention a curious brass medallion* which was found in 

 digging the foundation of the present Pump ßoom, and 

 became the property of the Rev. Mr. Richardson, who 



* It is dcposited in the sixteenth ilrawer of the Cabinot of Antiquitics, 

 at the Literary Institution. 



