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Chamber XXIX. apparently was an addition to the original 
work. It was 12 feet from north to south and 17 feet long, 
having walls 13 feet thick standing fully 3 feet in height. They 
were faced externally with squared stones in courses, and seem 
not to have been plastered. 
The portion of the villa found in 1881 stood to the south of the 
central court, approached by a continuation of passage X VIL, and 
consisted principally of two chambers with hypocausts having 
apsidal ends towards the west. 
Mr. Mann, in the paper already referred to,! describes what was 
then exposed, and from his account the following description is 
arranged to be in accordance with that of the recent excavations. 
Chamber XXX. was a passage in continuation of passage X VIL, 
but only 64 feet wide. 
In the south wall was an opening only 2 feet wide. 
It had a pavement, having a large fret pattern in blue and white 
tessere, a patch of which at a little distance from its south end 
“was discoloured by fire.” It sloped 13} inches in its length 
towards the north. 
Chamber XXXTI. was a small square lobby at the end of the 
passage entered through the narrow door from the last chamber. 
It had on the east side at M “a rectangular piece of masonry, the 
upper surface being level with the floor: most probably it served 
as a pedestal of statuary or an altar.” Unless it “marks the 
position of any steps of access to a doorway which might have 
been at a higher level than the top of the wall now seen.” 
_ “The flooring is of white lias tesseree having the dark-coloured 
fret pattern; and its enclosing border, formed with tessere of 
Pennant, in colour a dark indigo.” | 
On the west side of this chamber is a wide opening into 
Chamber XXXII, which Mr. Mann designates a bath. “The 
1 British Archeological Journal, xliii., 47—55. 
