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lower end of Stall Street. Among the rubbifh of the 
old houfe, when it was pulled down, was a large 
quantity of walling ftone, which had on it the marks 
of fire ; fo that probably fome building had formerly 
flood there, which was burnt. And in finking the 
ground about four or five feet lower than the ftone, 
they found, as I am informed, two coins of the 
emperor Caraufius , in bafe metal, and very much 
defaced; tho upon one of them the following infcri- 
ption was legible: imp caravs i vs pf. In July 
1727 the beautiful gilt head, which is now preferved 
in the town houfe, was dug up at the other end of 
this flreet, not far from the King's bath , about fix- 
teen feet below the furface of the earth, as they were 
making a common fhore through the town (1). 
The ftone, upon which this infcription is cut, has 
been generally taken for a pedeftal, either of a ftatue, 
or fome other folid body, which it once fupported. 
Tho from the appearance of the horizontal plane at 
the top Mr. Hoare is of the opinion, that nothing 
was formerly placed upon it; and fuppofes, that the 
finking in the middle, with the two lines erafed, one 
on each fide, might be made meerly for ornament. 
Befides, the face and two fides only are finifhed ; 
the back being flat, as if it was defined to ftand 
againft a wall. The hight of it, which is very near 
three feet ; as likewife the form both of the ftone 
itfelf, and the plane above mentioned ; will appear 
by the draughts of them taken by Mr. Hoare, ; 
which are annexed to this difcourfe (2). From 
a 
(1) A fine print of this head has been publilhed by the A. S. L, 
in their Vetujl. Monum. Vol . I. Num, 34. 
(2) See TAB. III. Fig. 3. 
