Thanks to the power of the divining-rod and to the specialized knowledge of a private soldier—now an Acting Company Sergeant-Major of the Royal Army Service Corps, a strange archaeological discovery has been made at Kensington Barracks. A/C. S.-M. L. J. Latham is a practised archaeologist and a Fellow of the Royal Numismatic Society. He has found, after excavation, a mass of ancient masonry, believed on strong evidence to be Roman, which once caused the diversion of a Tudor culvert running beneath the barracks.
A long-vanished conduit house of Tudor brickwork used to stand beyond the north-east corner of the present barracks site. This protected a spring which, by means of an efficient culvert system, supplied Henry YW" Palace at Chelsea with water from an unpolluted source. Incidentally, there was a story that another culvert ran from the conduit to Kensington Palace, the Wren building on the site of the former Nottingham House, and Mr. Latham discovered during his researches that the theory was correct,
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