By Maud E. Gunnington. 441 



Eije Eoman Site at JHotijer ^ntbotts's SEell. 



The ground to the westward of Mother Anthony's Well is un- 

 doubtedly the site of Roman habitation, although, strangely enough, 

 it does not seem ever to have been noticed before, or at least not 

 to have been recorded. 



Attention was first drawn to the spot by the brilliancy and 

 peculiar regularity of a large patch of poppies growing in the field 

 adjoining Mother Anthony's Well. The field was rich with growing 

 corn, and if, at the sowing, the ground-plan of some mansion had 

 been traced with poppy seeds among the corn, one would expect 

 some such result as was here displayed. Our foreman (a native 

 of Eowde) said that the poppies grew on some old ruins in the field 

 where the soil was thin, and where there was old mortar. He added 

 that the field was littered with broken pots, and that old metal, 

 coins, and building stones were sometimes turned up by the plough. 

 Subsequently we were shown some Eoman coins and a beautiful 

 little bronze nail cleaner that had been picked up there. On going 

 over the ground it was found to be literally strewn with potsherds, 

 not only where the poppies grew, but in more or less profusion over 

 the whole field and some of the adjoining land. The pottery in- 

 cludes several of the kinds usually found on Romano-British sites, 

 varying from coarse grey to fine black ware and from various 

 qualities of red up to and including real Samian ware. 



Whether this was the villa of some well-to-do Roman, snugly 

 placed at the foot of the hill with all the advantages of a southern 

 aspect and of an unfailing supply of pure water, or the site of a 

 Romano-British village, remains for some future excavator to dis- 

 cover. In any case the presence of this Roman site so near to the 

 camp is of interest in view of the fragments of Roman ware found 

 there. 



EJ)e Barrotos. 



The two mounds just outside the camp on the extreme western 

 end of the hill are described on the Ordnance Map as " Tumuli," 

 but the Rev. A. C. Smith does not mention them in his " Map," and 



