remains, though somewhat of a negative character, it is on the whole favourable in its results to the views which have been advanced in the foregoing pages. No Roman foundations have been discovered within the limits of the present town, though we have indeed one instance, at the end which lies somewhat contiguous to the spot assigned to the Roman station and " vicus," of which mention will be made presently more particularly. Indeed, it has almost passed into a matter of course to consider that when deep sewers are dug in the streets, or other excavations made, none will be met with. It is probable then, as the whole tract was known to have been comprised anciently within the limits of the Weald of Kent, that in the time of the Romans much of the actual site of the town was a deep and secluded part of the forest, too densely covered with wood and thickets to supply proper localities for Roman villas. The other objects which are found are chiefly urns and coins. Very many years ago some of the former were found in digging the foundation of a warehouse in the angle between Earl Street and Pudding Lane, north of the latter. (See Newton's ' History of Maidstone,' p. 6.) A small urn or two were likewise found about eight years since, while excavating for a building in St. Faith's Street, opposite to the top of what was the former Green. Likewise, about twenty years before the said period, a few small urns, like the former ones of a black colour, and now deposited in the Charles Museum, were found in digging foundations four or five houses higher up the street on the same side. Of coins, a second brass of

A second brass of Claudius