British and Roman Antiquities of Bath. ij 



found in 1819, but has passed out of the city. Many 

 remains have been found in the course of excavating the 

 Roman baths ; these are placed under cases in the Pump- 

 room, and belong to the account which will be given by 

 Major Davis of the latest discoveries. 



The site of Roman Bath has yielded specimens of every 

 kind of pottery, and coins from the date of Augustus to that 

 of Theodosius. 



The Literary Institution contains many specimens of fine 

 Samian ware, and other kinds of Roman pottery, also good 

 specimens of Roman bricks and flue tiles, as well as querns 

 or hand-mills for grinding flour. 



Roman Coius have been found in great abundance in 



Coins. arid around the city. (See " Aquae Solis," 



p. 121). The earliest coins preserved are one of the Emperor 

 Augustus and a second brass of Claudius. The series con- 

 tinues to the fall of the Roman Empire. Many coins have 

 been found at Combe Down on the site of a Roman villa 

 there, and also at Camerton, which seems to have been the 

 site of a Roman posting station, about 7 miles from Bath> 

 on the line of the Foss road to Ilchester. 



There are, in the Museum of the Literary and Scientific 

 Institution, seventy-eight coins, belonging to the Bath Cor- 

 poration, which date from the time of Claudius to that of 

 the Emperor Gratian. 



Dr. Guidott in his " Discourse of Bath '' gives a list and 

 drawings of the coins found in Bath when he wrote. He 

 has also given drawings of the Roman antiquities then 

 remaining in the walls of the city, which are also given in 

 "Dingley's History from Marble," printed by the Cam- 

 bridge Camden Society. These have all disappeared. 

 Many coins were found in excavating for the site of the 



