At Boxmoor, Herts, in excavating a Roman Villa, window 

 glass was found (see "Archaeol.," vol. xxxv., p. 63), also the 

 bottom of a vessel of brown glass, with a spiral of bluish white 

 running over it. It exhibits marks of the glass blower's rod. 

 The coins there found range from Nero to Arcadius. 

 Window glass is found at Uriconium (Wroxeter). This is to 

 be seen in the Museum at Shrewsbury, and to some fragments 

 the mortar is still adhering. (For account of glass manu- 

 factories, see Pliny, "Natural Histoi-y," Ixxxv., c. 66.) In an 

 " Account of the Roman Villa and Discoveries made on the 

 Borough Hill, the ancient Benna Venna, by Beriah Botfield, 

 Esq , F.R.S." ("Archteol," vol. xxxv., p. 383), various speci- 

 mens of window glass are mentioned, and fragments of a 

 beautiful specimen of fine glass belonging to a Thuribu- 

 lum. These articles were found near the Baths. The 

 objects found at this Villa were deposited in the British 

 Museum, and the drawings have been placed in the Library 

 of the Society of Antiquaries. 



In Sir Robt. Atkins's "History of Gloucestershire," mention 

 is made'of the^discovery of a Roman Villa in the locality of 

 Tracy Park, and a fuller detail given by Rudder ("History 

 of Gloucestershire," p. 211). The latter describes certain 

 Roman antiquities found in a field called Beach, and 

 then goes on to give some account of the Cromlech, and 

 offers conjectures respecting it. The farmhouse, on the 

 other side of the deep hollow, a quarter of a mile to the 

 south-east of the field in which the Roman Villa now 

 described was situated, is noted on the Ordnance map as 

 Beach Farm, and the fields adjoining seem to have the name 

 of Beach, but the name of the farm where the Villa lately 

 uncovered once actually stood is called Cold Harbour 

 Farm. This is a name commonly given to places where 

 Roman remains are found. The spot described by Rudder, 

 and known by him under the name of Beach, is now Ciilled 



