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Saxons arriving soon after, raised on these ruins the town that
remains to this day. Hence it may be inferred, that the present
town of Lancaster stands on a magazine of Roman-British
antiquities; and this is often verified by digging under ancient
houses, where Roman remains are frequently found, and where it
appears that the earth has been removed.- Beside what Dr. Leigh
mentions, there are many recent instances that prove the
conjecture.
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In the year 1772, in digging a cellar, where an old house had
stood, in a street or lane, called Pudding-Lane (almost in the
centre of the town) there was found, reversed in a bed of fine
sand, above five feet underground, a square inscribed stone, of
four feet by two and a half dimensions. A foot and two inches
were broken off the lower corner on the right hand side, so as to
render the inscription obscure, but the remaining letters were
very plain, elegantly formed, square, and about three inches
high. The inscription had consisted of eight or nine lines, of
which six are entire and of easy explanation; the loss in the
seventh is easily supplied; but the eighth must be made out by
the common style of such votive stones. The elegance of the
characters pronounces them to be the work of the best times; but
the two small letters in the
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