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pieces of stone pillars were found here, one of which appears to 
have been the top, and the other the base of a column seven inches 
in diameter. The view from this portico commanded the whole 
Valley of the Avon, and is one of great beauty. 
The long space may have been divided into chambers, but 
unfortunately neither Mr. Poynton nor Mr. Gibbs marked them 
on their paper, nor do they seem to have observed any trace of 
a hypocaust or action of fire on the remains. 
No coins or other objects of interest were discovered, but it is 
natural to suppose all these were taken away when the Barn was 
erected. 
It is impossible to say what was the plan of the villa, but there 
is a similarity between it and those found at Dry Hill and 
Cromhall, Gloucester, as delineated in the Arch. Handbook of 
Gloucestershire, and the bit of early walling seen about 19 feet 
South of the building, and now built on, would point apparently 
to the existence of a house. 
The building lies nearly East and West. 
The whole of the Barn was taken down and the buttresses, 
doorways &c., re-erected in accordance with the new plan. 
On some Heraldic Tiles in the Bath Literary Institute. 
By Rev. C. W. SHICKLE, 
(Read February 9th, 1898). 
Only some old tiles whose existence is unknown to the few, too 
few, frequenters of the Museum, and if perchance any one has cast a 
glance at them, he has thought they might at any rate have been 
arranged in a better manner and not upside down as some of them 
were till a few days ago. 
But yet they have not been quite unnoticed for a writer in the 
Antiquary, 1893, says, “‘The graceful conventional foliage of the 

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