220 Notes on a Roman Building, and Interments. 
be ascertained. Sixteen feet from the outside wall was a grave 
sunk in the rock, 6ft. long, 2ft. wide, and 2ft. 6in. deep, containing 
the bones of a young person lying east and west on the back in an 
extended position, the head facing west, close behind which were 
several pieces of black Roman pottery. On the south side the — 
workmen in digging a trench came upon a well-constructed stone 
drain 6ft. deep leading towards the jow land on that side. 
Each face of the angular piece of wall at A was about 3ft. in 
length. The wall was about 4ft. in height, flat on the top, and — 
better constructed than any of the other walls. It was surrounded : 
with bits of culinary vessels. 
No tesserz or trace of any tessellated pavements Boos existed 
here were found. 
The pottery discovered here, of which I have several hundred — 
pieces, consists of black, hard, and well-made fragments of large 
urn-shaped jars, Samian or red glazed ware and other Romano- 
British ware probably made on or near the spot. The most 
interesting pieces are the bottoms of culinary vessels, a large piece 
of a yellow mortarium, and fragments of Caistor ware decorated 
with white spots. The other relics are a large quantity of orna- 
mented flue-tiles, floor-tiles, stone roofing-tiles, fragments of a 
cornice, specimens of lime and grit floors, oyster shells, the butt of 
a large stag’s horn cut with a saw, a small iron wedge, and a long — 
bone pin. 
The whole of the foundations here described have been destroyed 
and carted away as road material, but the ground beyond A has 
not yet been excavated. 
Within a few yards of the foundations is the well-known spring 
of beautiful water said to contain medicinal qualities and used by 
old people in the town for bad eyes. About fifty years ago a man 
discovered near this spot a jar containing a hoard of coins. I have, 
however, failed to trace them. 
At a distance of 400 yards to the west a man digging a trench 
two years ago suddenly disappeared into a small cave or cellar 24ft. 
long x by 4ft. wide and 7ft. high, the top of which was 6ft. under 
the present surface-level; the whole was cut out of the solid n 
