TWO small points about your "Imperial" coverage "Bath fright with the Romans" (July 22). The Roman bath under the pub of that name lay well within the legionary fortress, which was supposed to be an exclusively military - and therefore a male zone.

Although women were undoubtedly smuggled into the barrack huts from time to time, any camp follower so unfortunate as to fall pregnant would find herself back over the river in the Colonia PDQ!

Moreover, any religious activity involving priestesses would certainly have taken place outside the fort.

Also, I presume that by "ascension of Constantine", accession is meant. Even after his eventual conversion to Christianity, his bodily ascension seems physically and theologically improbable.

J E Muldowney,

Second Avenue,

Heworth, York.

...THE Emperor Constantine showed great prescience.

The Inward Investment Board's poster quotes him as saying "...we could control most of England from here" (Business Press, July 22).

Did the Anglo-Saxons give him notice of their long-term plans to invade Britain and eventually create this country? And is his quoted title "CEO, English Headquarters" a retrospective honour from Egbert III, the first King of England (8th-9th Century)?

Charles Hunt,

Wilton Rise, York.

Updated: 11:06 Friday, July 25, 2003