Notes on Remains of Roman Dwellings at Hannington Wick. 233 
rows having been broken away. The red tesserz were of fine tile 
or brick broken very roughly into inch-square cubes. The white 
ones, of the same size, were formed of a hard fine-grained oolite. 
They seem to have been simply laid down on a smooth bed of grit 
and gravel—perhaps once mortar—and to have been cemented to- 
gether with a white plaster or cement ; now they are quite loose and 
detached. I may mention that the soil here is thin and the subsoil 
is a bed of river gravel near the surface. 
Adjoining this pavement at the north end was a floor of gravel 
concrete, marked “C” on the plan, about 2in. thick. This floor 
was apparently nearly square, measuring 12ft. by 11ft. 
Having uncovered this we proceeded to search for further remains 
over all that part of the field where tesserze appeared on the surface, 
and soon came upon a second tessellated pavement, “‘ B,” in a line 
with the first and 54ft. to the southward of it. This consisted of 
three bands of tessere of exactly the same character as those of 
which the other floor was composed. The central red band, however, 
and the outer white ones were in this case of the same breadth, each 
lft. wide, and containing ten rows of tessere; the whole measuring 
9ft. by 3ft. 
The edges seemed fairly straight and perfect, but the north end 
appeared to have been broken away, and there was no means of 
deciding whether the pavement had extended further or not. 
On the southern side was a concreted floor, “ D,” about 9ft. 
square, precisely like the similar floor “C,” but not so perfect ; and 
lift. further to the south-west some large stones were found at 
““G,” apparently the foundations of a wall, some of which were 
calcined by the action of fire. Possibly they may have formed part 
of the heating apparatus, but only a few detached stones remained, 
a cartload having been dug out of this very spot only last year. 
With this exception no remains of walls could be found, so that it 
was impossible to say whether the floors “ A—C” and “ B—D” 
belonged to the same or to separate dwellings. 
At “E,” 34ft. to the south-west of the pavement “ A,” a patch of 
rough stone pitching was found—possibly a part of the road to the 
house, the stones being merely roughly set edgewise in the ground. 
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