10 REPORT OF THE 



During the past year some very interesting papers have been 

 read at the Monthly Meetings of the Society. The Council are 

 glad to state, that a number of " The Transactions of the York- 

 shire Philosophical Society," will very shortly be published. 



In the department of Antiquities, it is a subject of great satis- 

 faction, that the excavations which have been carried on, during 

 the past year, in various parts of the city and suburbs of York, 

 have brought to light many interesting relics of Roman times, 

 several of which have happily found a place in the Museum of 

 the Society. The most important of these is the beautiful 

 tessellated pavement, discovered in Toft Green ; which, having 

 been presented to the Society by the Corporation, was carefully 

 removed, and has been skilfully and successfully transferred, 

 under the direction of a Committee, to the lower room of the 

 Hospitium. Another pavement, differing in its design, yet not 

 less beautiful though unfortunately less perfect, together with a 

 large portion of the border of a third, discovered at the same 

 time, in the immediate neighbourhood of the first, have also 

 been removed and deposited in the upper room of the Hospitium, 

 ready to be reconstructed whenever a proper place can be found 

 for that purpose. Beneath the first pavement, a small brass 

 coin was found, inscribed on the obverse DIVO CLAVDIO 

 (Gothico), and on the reverse CONSECRATIO, clearly shew- 

 ing that the work could not have been executed earlier than the 

 latter part of the third century of the Christian era. 



The foundations of a Roman building, composed of large stones 

 of grit, one of which is placed in the Museum, were lately dis- 

 covered in Micklegate, near St. Martin's Church ; determining, 

 as the Curator of Antiquities thinks, the site of the temple of 

 Serapis, re-built, as a tablet of the same material in possession 

 of the Society records, by the Legate of the sixth Legion Claudius 

 Hierony mianus . 



The Society is indebted to Mr. Waddington for a deposit of 

 several interesting Roman remains, obtained from recent or 

 fonner excavations on the Mount. Among them is the 

 Sarcophagus on which is inscribed, in beautifully formed letters, 

 the memorial of Theodorianus by his mother Theodora. The 

 Museum of the Society now contains all the existing inscribed 



