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liave bt^eii fomul litre inscribed L R(i. X. There 

 are still to be seen tVauiuents of Koiiiaii l)iicks, 

 and part ofa hypocanst; and on removing the soil 

 in 1801, the foundation of a Uonian \ ilia >\as also 

 discovered, consisting of live rooms in front, in- 

 cluding- a sudatorj . Some articles of Uoman pot- 

 tery, and a small round shield, ornamented witli 

 seveial circles of brass studs, have been tliscovered 

 here, and are preserved at Caer rhun. Among the 

 <;ollecfion of anticpiities at (iloddacth, was a hol- 

 low brick from the hypocanst, thirteeii inches in 

 length, live and a half square, and about three 

 cjuarters of an inch in thickness, liaving a round 

 hole in the middle about two inches in diameter. 

 Also a cake of copper smelted here from the ore of 

 the Snowdon mountains, which is thus described 

 by Mr. Pennant: " This mass is in the shape of a 

 cake of bees" wax; and on the upper part is a 

 deep concave impression with the words .Socio 

 UoMiE; across these is impressed obliquely, in 

 h'sser letters, Nalsol. 1 cannot explain it, unless 

 IS((/. stands for ]\(i/io, the people who paid this 

 species of tribute; and soi. for solvit, that being 

 the st;imp-master's mark, "^riiese cakes miglit be 

 bought ii|> by a merchant resi(h'ut in Britain and 

 consigned Soc lo KoMit, to liis partner at IJome. 



