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treasures discovered upon that occasion. They have been now placed 

 iu the Museum at Devizes. 



A quantity of bricks and tiling- was dug- up in the course of the 

 excavations. The bricks varied in thickness, showing different dates 

 of construction. 



Only one small copper coin was found, which Mr. Davies, of 

 Wallingford, describes as ''of Constantius II. (A.D. 350). On 

 the reverse is a winged victory, standing, holding a wreath, with 

 the inscription libertas eeipvblic.^ + and l in the field. The 

 letters lvg prove that it was coined at Lugdunum (Lyons). The 

 coin is interesting as a Christian emblem coin, having a cross on 

 the right side of the figure, on the reverse." This has been also 

 placed in the Museum. 



The pavements, which were opened upon the occasion of the visit 

 of the British Archaeological Association, in 1880, may, from their 

 position, mark the site of a double reception room, resembling that 

 recently discovered at Brading. A drawing of the pavements as 

 they appeared in 1810 is given in vol. ii. of Sir R. C. Hoare^s 

 Ancient Wiltshire. They have been much damaged since that date, 

 and but a small portion of them remains. 



The foundations, with the exception of a short length of nine feet, 

 are throughout two feet in width. Nothing was done by way of 

 clearing out the chambers defined by them. As the ground had 

 been worked on three previous occasions (Sir Andrew Baynton 

 having been in the field before Sir R. C. Hoare and Mr. Cunnington) 

 it is not probable that anything of sufficient interest would be dis- 

 covered to justify the expense of such a workj although some of 

 the problems suggested by the present condition of the remains 

 might be solved by the process. 



The excavations recently made have thrown some little light upon 

 the size of the original building, only a portion of which, howev.9r, 

 has been thus revealed ; as it must have certainly extended further 

 to the west, where it is cut through transversely by the Devizes and 

 Chippenham road. 



The plan, which shows the lines of excavation and the foundations 

 discovered, must, it is to be feared, be considered, together with this 



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