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thing that occurred to him was did they feel certain it was a villa ? 
Roman remains they, no doubt, were. Mr. Browne said he 
imagined what had been discovered was one portion of a villa, a 
fragment of a wing of a larger building 
Mr. Shickle then read his second paper, “ Notes on certain 
Heraldic Tiles in Bath Museum,” published on page 52. The 
subject of his paper was ‘‘some old tiles whose existence is 
unknown to the few, too few, frequenters of the Museum. And 
yet they had not been quite unremarked, for a writer in the 
Antiquary of 1893 unhesitatingly pronounced some of them, at 
least, to be from the same mould as those at Tintern, and others 
were heraldic tiles of the following two centuries. There being 
no reliable account where these tiles came from, the reader 
endeavoured to show why they were selected, what tale they told, 
and thence to see if they could discover their original locality. 
In reply to the Chairman, Mr. Shickle explained that there was 
no record of where these tiles were found. The Chairman 
remarked that unless they all came from one Church or from the 
same neighbourhood, Mr. Shickle’s theory as to the connection — 
one family bore to the other failed. His idea was that it was an 
antiquary’s collection, and probably that of an antiquary possess- 
ing heraldic tendencies who selected the best tiles. Mr. Shickle 
had made out a clever theory of the connection of all these people, 
but it needed confirmation on many points. The Rey. H. H. 
Winwood said his opinion was that the tiles came from the 
Abbey. He said they were much indebted to Mr. Shickle for 
the great ingenuity he had shown in explaining them. His was. 
one of those papers which were very valuable to Procedings such 
as theirs. Mr, Browne mentioned that he had pieces of old tiles. 
found near the Abbey during excavations, but he should not put 
them earlier than the 15th Century. 
Mr. T. Browne followed with a paper on the “ Roman Pave- 
ment found at the Royal United Hospital.” In the course of it 
he said :—The pavement was found in 1864 in digging out the 

