Observations on the effects of Buxton water ... / [Joseph Denman].

  • Denman, Joseph
Date:
1793
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Credit: Observations on the effects of Buxton water ... / [Joseph Denman]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2dly* The workmen employed to conduct a fough from the river to the bath, in the year 1698, at the diftance of about fifty yards from, and eaft of Saint Ann’s well, found fome fheets of lead fpread upon large beams of timber, with other fuppofed remains of a Roman, or fome other ancient bath, 3dly. The way called Bathar^gate, leading from Brough to Buxton, fuppofed to be Roman, and part of which may be traced at this day. The two former particulars have been re¬ gularly handed down to the prefent time, but from what original authority does not ap¬ pear. Neither does it appear that much in- veffigation has been employed on the fub- je£t. The name of the antiquarian who dis¬ covered this brick-wall of Roman conftrudion is not mentioned ; of his Skill and judgment, therefore, no opinion can be formed : nor has a fingle fpecimen of fo curious a piece of antiquity been preferved. Perhaps, too, there is little reafon for concluding that the leaden baths, or cifterns, as they are called h7