British and Roman Antiquities of Bath. 7 



The site of the Roman Forum may be laid 

 down with tolerable certainty. Thus the 

 Abbey Church marks the eastern limit, and the Pump Room 

 Hotel the western. The Baths formed the southern side, 

 covering the whole space between the present Pump Room 

 and the Abb^y, and the opposite, or northern side, reached 

 from the Abbey nearly to the Pump Room Hotel, leaving 

 the space now occupied by the Abbey churchyard open, 

 but much wider than at present. When the Pump Room 

 Hotel was built, the remains of a temple, the platform on 

 which it stood, and of the colonnade that surrounded it, 

 could be made out.* 



The site of the present Abbey Church is believed to be 

 that of a Roman temple, or other public building. 



In other parts of the town, and within the enclosure of 

 the Roman walls, many tesselated pavements have been 

 found, and can still be inspected. They are left in situ, 

 one under the Mineral-Water-Hospital and the court and 

 garden adjoining it, another under the Blue-coat-school, and 

 a third under the wing added to the United or Casualty- 

 Hospital 24 years ago. Adjoining this latter, Roman baths, 

 apparently belonging to a private residence, were also 

 discovered. 



Ancient Camps, Earthworks, and Roads, adjacent 

 TO Bath. 



In the neighbourhood of the city, many traces of ancient 

 camps remain. The earliest, or pre-Roman, are to be found 

 (i) on the isolated hill above Bath-Easton, called Salisbury 

 or Solsbury. There are traces of an earthen rampart sur. 

 rounding the hill, and there ancient interments have been 



* See p. 18. 



