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The grit-stone has dowel holes; a portion is continued 
towards the present Bootham Bar, where it probably meets 
the return wall along Petergate. When that street was 
excavated for the drainage in 1893, the present writer noticed 
about 6 feet from the surface, Roman concrete extending from 
within the Bar towards Petergate for a distance of 30 feet. 
The gateway foundations were revealed in 1835 during the 
formation of St. Leonard’s Place. Wellbeloved indicates the 
plan in his work on Eburacum, published in 1842, and states 
that at the distance of 11 feet from the S.W. side of the 
Bar “ was found the outer face of a wall, 3 feet in thickness, 
at right angles with the rampart wall and the angle formed bv 
the joining of the two walls, composed of large blocks of coarse 
grit, one of these measuring 3 feet 3 inches in breadth by 5 
feet 8 inches in length and 1 foot 3 inches in depth. These 
large stones were closely jointed, but did not seem to have 
been laid with mortar. They had dove-tailed holes in them, 
such as are now called by workmen luis-holes. On a further 
search, just within the archway of Bootham Bar, another wall 
of the same breadth, corresponding with the former in char¬ 
acter and direction, was found, enclosing with the former 
a space of about 20 feet, and extending towards the city 
about 30 feet from the face of the rampart wall. It is highly 
probable, not to say certain, that this was a remnant of one of 
the gates of Eboracum.'’ * * * “ Near this opening large 
stones of grit, some of them rudely sculptured, were found, 
appearing to have formed part of a pediment or frieze. On 
one of them is seen a quadriga in front.”* 
The sculptured stones are in the lower room of the 
Hospitium. One (PI. IV. Fig. 5) has a rude representation of a 
quadriga or chariot drawn by four horses, and measures 2 feet 
10 inches long, 1 foot 4 inches high and 1 foot 10 inches wide. 
The sculptured panel projects 7 inches from the face of the 
stonework. Another (PI. IV.Fig.6)has a moulded top, and below 
is depicted a Triton blowing his concha or shell trumpet, and 
is 2 feet 4 inches long, 1 foot 3 inches high and 5 inches thick. 
A third (PI. V. Fig. 7) is a portion of an ornamental frieze deeply 
# Eburacum, by C. Wellbeloved, page 51 and Plates I. and V. 
