256 The Roman Villa at Bor. 
This also seems to have had buttresses, as the commencement 
of one in line with the south end was found. 
In this chamber, in 1898, was found in made ground a large 
stone retaining the middle portion of a well-carved standing figure 
in a niche, apparently representing a man returning from the 
chase, having a hare hanging over one shoulder and a bird over 
the other. 
Chamber XXIV. formed the northern part of the rebuilt passage 
which was found separated from chamber XXIII. by a wall 
standing some three feet in height. This wall was apparently a 
later work, after the passage was disused, and may have formed 
part of an alteration whereby the chambers XXIII. and XXIV. 
were made into separate and wider rooms, as it crosses the old 
west wall of the first passage as though joining up to the main 
wall of the added apartments. 
Chambers XXV., XXVII., and XXVIII. were apparently in 
the first place all part of a passage exterior to the northern range 
of chambers. 
The northern wall was plastered throughout its length externally, 
showing that the ground outside must have been at a considerable 
depth below the floor-levels of the villa. 
Inside chambers XXV. and XXVII. near the south wall was 
found an immense quantity of small pieces of painted plaster at a 
depth of 3 feet below the floor-level. 
Towards the eastern end of the first chamber six hypocaust 
pillars were found similar to those in chamber X. They may 
have been the identical pillars met with in 1833. This chamber 
at that time had a pavement, “but in a state of destruction.” 
Chamber XX VI. with XXV. formed one apartment of the later 
addition already described. 
The inside face of the apse remained for 114 feet on the east 
side and 5 feet on the west. 
