250 The Roman Villa at Box. 
formed of stones having a sunk channelled bottom, about 6 inches 
across by 4 inches deep, covered with flat stones and pieces of tile. 
A considerable quantity of wall plaster painted yellow was found 
in this room. 
Beneath the walls running north and south, of this and the last 
chamber described, are large blocks of foundation, like buttresses, 
but set irregularly against the north wall of the chambers, for 
what purpose it is impossible to say. 
Chamber VIII. a. oceupies the space between chamber VIII. 
and the court, and from the evidence of the drain, already described, 
leading from this chamber, it is supposed to have been used for 
necessary convenience. 
Chamber LX. was a passage 4} feet wide connecting the court 
with the passage on the north side the buildings. It retained its 
east wall, over 12 inches in height, and a portion of the west wall 
remained above the floor-level. In the latter were probably 
openings leading to chambers VIII. and VIII. a. 
The pavement remained tolerably perfect and was composed of 
large tesserze in alternate squares of buff oolite and chocolate- 
coloured Pennant, 13 inches wide, within a buff border. It showed 
signs of fire in places. 
Chamber X. was 20 feet from east to west, and formed the angle 
between the chambers on the north and east sides of the court, 
but was considerably altered in later Roman times. 
It apparently was without a hypocaust originally, but one was 
inserted with a stoke-hole at the north-east angle at the time of 
the later enlargement. In this hypocaust the pile are of different 
shape from the others, being roughly-hewn blocks of stone with 
slightly hollowed sides, of which twenty-three remained in position. 
A flue tile set horizontally remained in the south-west angle. 
Part of this hypocaust was opened in 1833, when Mr. Mullins 
“found seven stone pillars of rough workmanship and near them 
an altar-like erection consisting of several stones and a piece of 
stone of semi-circular shape about 1 foot across and 8 inches thick 
