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N.W. GATEWAY OF EBORACUM. 
sculptured. It is 3 feet 3 inches long, 15 inches high and 18 
inches thick. The fourth (PI. V. Fig 8) is the figure of a sphinx 
or some imaginary animal, and is 2 feet 1 inch long, 1 foot 
1 inch high and 10J inches in thickness. These were pre¬ 
sented to the Museum in 1835 by Mr. Tilney. The base of a 
pier found at the same place probably belonged to the gate¬ 
way. Some fragments of pillars were also found in 1877.* 
In 1852, the Ordnance Map to a scale of 5 feet to a mile 
was issued, and the gateway is indicated. The wall is shown 
returned for a distance of 9 feet, at the end of which another 
wall crosses it at right angles, and the latter encloses a 
rectangular building, some 15 feet square. This information 
was probably supplied by Wellbeloved, who died in 1858. 
The Ordnance Map, issued in 1891 to a scale of 4130 inches 
to a mile, does not indicate the gateway. 
The area investigated is so limited that it only reveals a 
small portion of the western wall, probably of a guard house 
with its eastern wall under the street. The data obtained 
are too meagre to give the form of the gate house. The 
writer would only suggest that the plan of the gateway was 
similar to plans of corresponding gateways on the Roman 
Wall—the roadway spanned by a double portal and having a 
guard house on each side. The gateway site was continued 
across Petergate and under the houses on the opposite side. 
The guard houses seem to have been about 20 feet square 
inside. The elevation spanning the roadway appears from 
the pillars and sculptured stones to have been of an elaborate 
character. 
Although the plan of the N.W. gateway is so fragmentary, 
it is probable that if an excavation of the N.E. one along Lord 
Mayor’s Walk was made, it would lay bare the plan of an 
entire gateway, as the site is free from buildings and under 
the moat. 
* Museum Handbook, page 70, note. 
