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On the falling of the roof one of the piers was thrust out of the perpendicular, the upper half toppling over, and the lower would have again returned to its original position had a stone not fallen into the vertical joint, catching the pilaster as a wedge. The pier is still fixed out of the perpendicular by the stone in the joint.
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The bases of the columns found, on the contrary, are most carefully designed and of most delicate proportions, which appear to justify the belief that the bases of the pilasters were never completely worked, or that they were coated with plaster and decorated as in the western bath, now being excavated.
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Professor Middleton considers this a cornucopia.
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A small drawing of these pieces I shall also on a future occasion communicate.
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"The foundation of a monastery by an under-King of the Hwiccas [Osric, Nov. 6, A.D. 676,] within its walls, reveals to us the springing up of a new life in another of the cities which had been wrecked by Ceawlin's inroad, the city of Bath."—Green's "Making of England," p. 356.
Professor Earle throws some doubt on the authenticity of the record.
Printed at the Herald Office, North Gate, Bath.
