576 Stanley Abbey. 



an oriented hall with a chapel beyond is common with the Bene- 

 dictines but rare in Cistercian houses. 



Cross trenches on the sites of these buildings revealed nothing 

 but building rubbish, every atom of the walls having been grubbed 

 up. 



Northward of the chapel site a mass of foundations was found 

 spanning the main drain, biit in so fragmentary a condition as to 

 render doubtful the nature of the building to which they belonged, 

 though from its position over the drain it was probably a gardrobe. 



Further to the north another building about 20 feet wide is 

 marked by sinkings ; it also spanned the drain, and the western 

 part of its south wall with a portion of the construction arch over 

 the drain remained. From this point an ovei"flow from the main 

 drain deflected eastward towards the river, and its line is clearly 

 marked in the ground. 



North-eastward from the last building is a circular depression 

 24 feet in diameter, which may mark the site of a dove house. 



To the west are the remains of two walls at right angles to each 

 other. In the south end of that running north and south are the 

 bottom stones of a doorway of a single square member, and towards 

 the eastern end of the other wall are the plinth stones of what 

 was apparently a buttress on its south side. 



Eastward of the infirmary as far as the cross ditch was doubtless 

 occupied by the garden usually attached to the infirmary, as the 

 ground is quite even and undisturbed by removed walls. 



Building Materials. 



The materials used in the building were for the most part found 

 in the near neighbourhood. 



The walls were of rubble of hard stone and had freestone 

 dressings. The hard stone is of a poor quality of forest marble, 

 found near Calne. The freestone is of excellent quality of Bath 

 oolite, from Hazelbury, in Box parish. 



Before 1189 Walter Crok, of Haselbury, gave the monks the 

 whole of his quarry of Haselbury, from the land of Samson Bigod 



