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different spots in Cirencester, Roman remains, snch as pave- ments, wells, coins, pottery, &c., have been detected within a few years. At a spot called Watermore, immediately ontside the wall on the south, there were found in 1835 and 1836, three Roman monumental stones of much interest ; they were published in the Archaeologia,^ accompanied by a very learned memoir, written by Dr. Conrad Leemans, Conservator of the Museum at Leyden. Other discoveries are recorded in the Archaeologia,' and man}^ fragments of sepulchral stones have recently been dug up in a spot near the Amphi- theatre, supposed to have been a cemetery immediately without the walls. That part of the parish of Cirencester called the Tything of Chesterton, includes within its limits the ground called the "Leauses," or "Lewses," where so many vestiges of the Romans have been discovered : in the name, the Roman Cas- trum will be recognised, but its precise position seems to be uncertain. The present Castle Street is the continuation of Dyer Street, the assumed line of the Foss Way in its westward course, after crossing the Irmine Street. The modern Spittle- gate is about where the north gate from Glevum would have stood, whilst the south exit towards Calleva would probably have been where there is a break in the mounds, near the spot at which the three sepulchral stones before mentioned ' Vol. xxvii. pi. xiv. ^ Arcliaeologia, vol. vii, pi. xxix. ; vol. viii., p. 407 ; vol. x., pi. ix., xiii. ; vol. xviii., pi. viii., p. iO.'i ; vol. xix., p. 17G.
