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XXXIII. Description of a Roman Bath, discovered at Dover. In a Letter to Daniel Minet, Esq. F.R. and A.S. By the Rev. Mr. Lyon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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When I had the pleasure of meeting you last, our conversation turned upon the form of the buildings of the ancients, the nature of the cement, and the variety of materials made use of by them in their different structures, particularly in their baths. I mentioned that soon after I came to this town, I discovered the remains of a Roman structure at the West end of the parish church of St. Mary the Virgin; which remains have since repeatedly been laid open for the purposes of interment. You requested me to give you an accurate description of every part of this fabric, with my conjectures at what æra it was built, and for what use I conceived it was intended: I now sit down to comply with your request, but that I may give you as just an idea as I can of this ancient piece of masonry, by a minute description of its several parts, I have annexed a drawing, where A, B, C, D, E, F, represent the ichnography of the West end of the church.

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Archaeologia , Volume 5 , 1779 , pp. 325 - 334
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1779

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page 325 note * Plate XXVII.

page 326 note [a] Antiq. vol. III. p. 129.

page 326 note [b] See the ground plan under the foundation of the tower.

page 328 note [c] See P. The curved lines represent waving furrows on the surface to make the mortar adhere more firmly to the tile.

page 328 note [d] See Q. The stripes were twice the dimensions of the drawing, and the colour a little more upon the brown.

page 329 note [e] Antiq. vol. III. p. 129.

page 330 note [f] Antient Univ. Hist. vol. XIX. p. 86.

page 330 note [g] Notitia, c. 38.

page 330 note [h] Henry's Hist. of England, vol. I. p. 56.

page 330 note [i] See Richard of Cirencester's Itinerary, p. 20. and Univ. Hist. vol. XIX. p. 86.

page 330 note [k] C. 52.

page 330 note [l] Blair's Chronology.

page 332 note [m] Consilium id divus Augustus vocabat. Tacitus Vit. Agric. p. 644. Amst. ex offic. Jansson. 1643.

page 332 note [n] Consularium primus Aulus Plautius praepositus ac subinde Ostorius Scapula, uterque bello egregius, redactaque paulatim in formam provinciae proxima pars Britanniae addita insuper veteranorum colonia. Tacitus ibid.

page 333 note [o] Caes. B. G. iv. c. 23.

Cujus loci haec erat natura, adeo montibus augustis mare continebatur, uti ex locis superioribus in litus telum adjici posset.

Dr. Halley in Phil. Trans. N° 193, from these foregoing words of Caesar, judged that by the description of the hills they were those of Dover.

page 333 note [p] Whitaker's Hist. of Manchester, vol. I. p. 326, 8vo.