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SOME two years ago, when examining relics from Wookey Hole, kept in the Wells Museum, I noticed a vessel containing a small amount of a ruby-coloured powder, closely resembling realgar or ruby sulphur. Mr. H. E. Balch, the curator and well-known authority on Wookey Hole, informed me that the powder was found in the Roman stratum of the cave floor. He courteously gave me a small sample which I later submitted to chemical tests and confirmed my first impression.
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See Partington, ” Origins and Development of Applied Chemistry”, p. 317 (1935).
Bostock and Riley's Translation, Book 34, chapter Iv.
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FRIEND, J. Realgar in Wookey Hole, Somerset. Nature 139, 72 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139072a0
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