
By Harold Brakspear, B.S.A. 249 
Towards the north of the chamber were found remains of a 
tesselated pavement in 1898. It apparently consisted of a two- 
ringed knot pattern of white, red and blue tessere surrounded by 
a white and blue fret border. This piece of pavement was unfor- 
tunately removed in 1898 without proper measurements being 
taken, but from a rough tracing of Mr. Hardy’s the accompanying 
sketch has been made, 

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Restored pavement of Chamber VIII. 
(From a tracing taken by Mr. Hardy.) 
Towards the south-east of the chamber was a fragment of opus 
signinum, which may have been used to repair a defective piece 
of floor. 
Across the centre of the floor was a drain running northward 
1 Some of the rooms hiok were not laid with iaanaladed pavements seem 
to have been floored with this material—a strong concrete formed of gravel 
and small bits of broken tile, the whole ground down to a smooth surface, 
making a durable floor of pleasing appearance. Considerable masses of it 
were found mixed with the wall plaster. [E.H.G.| 
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