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were then, I suppose, as now, employed as the handles of doors or 
cupboards. These things have been reduced by the lapse of time 
and other causes, to something like the condition of Kimmeridge 
coal. We found about two hundred coins, all of the third brass, 
many of them in a condition of decay which rendered their inscrip- 
tions illegible ; but we made out some of Constantinus Magnus and 
Secundus, each with three or four varieties of reverses, and five or 
six of exergual letters; of Constans, with five different reverses ; of 
Martinianus, Delmatius, and Magnentius. Feeling confident that 
we were on the verge of the wished-for villa, but striking no walls 
nor foundations, we desisted unwillingly from our search. 
Operations were resumed about a month ago, when by the patient 
use of a pointed crowbar in various directions, we ascertained and 
afterwards uncovered the foundations of a large enclosure, about 65 
feet long by 52 broad, its walls of unusual thickness, those on the 
Porth and south sides being 3 feet 9 inches, those on the east and 
west 2 feet 6 inches in width, built of faced flints strongly bedded 
in mortar. I am inclined to think that we have not hit upon the 
villa yet, but that this is an outbuilding of some kind, perhaps a 
barrack or stable, for the only portion of the internal area we have 
been able to examine has disclosed a chamber of about 12 feet square, 
_ without any floor but the natural clay of the soil, which appears to 
have been undisturbed. Broken roofstones and nails, with all the 
debris of a fallen building, destroyed apparently by fire, lay upon it, 
and amongst the rubbish we found a whetstone, a portion of a quern 
GOs eee 
or hand grinding stone, some fragments of a very delicate and thin 
glass vessel with a red coloured stain upon them, and this singular 
object, which, at first sight, looks like a Gothic poppy-head in stone, 
but may, for all that, for aught I know, belong to earlier times. 
I have succeeded in obtaining from Sir Francis H. Goldsmid, 
Bart., M.P., whose ready kindness I gratefully acknowledge, full 
permission to examine this portion of his property, to the extent of 
one third of an acre; and so I trust, at no distant time, to have 
additional information to lay before the Society. 
