234 Donations to Museum and Library. 
It was about 9ft. in diameter, and did not appear to extend further. 
At “F” a few patches of concrete, indicating the existence of 
another concrete floor, were found. 
There was an idea among the labourers that a piece of pavement 
with diamonds in white on a red ground had once been uncovered 
by the plough, but diligent search failed to discover any traces of it. 
All the tessere torn up by the plough, and scattered on the surface 
of the ground, are of precisely the same rough character as those of 
which the two floors are composed. 
Only one coin was found—a small third brass—from the filleted 
head apparently of the Constantine period, but quite undecipherable. 
Of other objects the most interesting were two pieces of plain 
Samian ware, a few bits of the usual rough unglazed pottery, one 
of somewhat finer grey ware, apparently part of the almost flat top 
of a box or jar, a few oyster-shells, and a certain number of pieces of 
plaster, proving that the walls were, like those of Pompeii, painted in 
various colours. Examples of a fine Pompeian red, a deep maroon, 
and brown were found, the colours being singularly bright when 
first found, while on two pieces traces of a pattern or figure appear, 
of several colours, including green. Some broken tiles and portions 
of hollow flue bricks were also found. 
After the sketch-plan which accompanies these notes had been 
taken the whole of the remains were covered up again forthwith, in 
the hope that the plough from which they have so curiously escaped 
hitherto may continue to spare them in the future. 
It is possible that a more thorough trenching of the ground might 
have brought other things to light, though the fact that none of the 
floors are more than 6in. below the surface, and the entire apparent 
destruction of the stone foundations, render it unlikely that much 
more exists to discover, 
Donations to Atlusenm and Aibvarp. 
Portrait of Henry, Marquis of Lansdowne. Presented by J. Warten, Esq. 
The Pedigree of John Stokes, of Seend, Co, Wilts—edited by A. Schomberg, Esq. 
Presented by THE AuTHOR. 
The History of the Hundred of Ramsbury, Part I., by E. Doran Webb, Esq. 
Presented by THe AurHoR. 
H. F, BULL, Printer and Publisher, 4, Saint John Street, Devizes, 
11 UL. 9/ESD 
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