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inch or an inch-and-a-quarter square down to about one- 

 third of an inch ; the larger ones consist of pieces of brick, 

 probably made from broken tiles, &c. Those of chalk come 

 next in size ; then are squares of thin, shaly sandstone, 

 precisely the same material of which the roofing stones were 

 made. The smallest tiles are of hard blue nodules. One 

 of the brick tesserae has been tooled. It was found loose 

 and may be part of a special design. 



Portions of earthenware roofing tiles were found, with the 

 side ridges, and also fragments of flue-tiles, with the charac- 

 teristic deep combings. One flat tile (Plate XVII. fig. 2) has 

 the impression of a dog's foot, with possibly also the foot- 

 prints of a rabbit or hare. Some of the larger earthenware 

 tiles were found in a small excavation made some little 

 distance to the south-east of the pavements, where probably 

 are the remains of a hypocaust. 



Portions of several earthenware vessels have been found. 

 Some of the pieces were picked from the field at some 

 distance from the pavements ; others were taken from the two 

 floors (Plates XIV. and XVI. fig. 3). Amongst them are 

 portions of three or more large vessels of dark grey ware, of 

 the Romano-British type ; these are very thick, and were found 

 in large pieces. The clay of which they were made had been 

 mixed very largely with ground oyster-shells. Fragments of 

 two shallow saucer-like vessels were obtained, one of plain 

 grey ware, the other of yellow material, ornamented on the 

 outside with a chevron pattern in brown. All these are 

 obviously the remains of domestic utensils. One small 

 fragment is evidently of Caistor ware, being ornamented 

 in relief on the outside. 



A great number of oyster-shells were found, and several 

 of these had a V-shaped piece nipped out of them, shewing 

 the way in which they had been opened by the Romans 

 Bones and teeth were fairly common, and apparently belong 

 to the ox, sheep, pig, dog, and birds. 



The other specimens include four coins, one Gallienus, 

 one Tetricus, one Victorinus, and one undeterminable ; three 



