300 Inaugural Address by the President of the Society, 
so called because it ran across the angle of the Fore Drain, and 
across the Dyke. Near the Mid Drain, to the west end of it, a 
T-shaped hypocaust—a model of which was exhibited at the meeting 
—built with flints and mortar, similar to those found at Woodcuts, 
was discovered, and close to it an extended skeleton lay buried, with 
the head to the east, in a grave 4ft. deep. It was surrounded by 
several large iron nails, which had probably served to fasten a coffin 
or shell, and a large Roman coin, which was afterwards identified 
as Faustina, was found on the breast just under the chin. In the 
north-west corner of the settlement, within the Boundary Drain, a 
square enclosure was discovered, the faces being 105ft. by 115ft., 
surrounded by a ditch 8ft. wide and 2ft. 4in. deep. Within the 
enclosure were five graves, containing extended skeletons, in graves 
about 4ft. 6in. deep. One of them—No. 15—was buried 6ft. deep, 
and had a bone comb resting on the left breast, and a small earthen- 
ware pitcher with a handle at the feet, with several large nails 
around it. These graves were all cut nearly in the same direction, and 
might possibly, in this case, have been dug with a view to orientation, 
being within a few degrees of the east-and-west line, but they were 
nearly parallel to the sides of the enclosure, which may have given 
them their direction. The use of this square enclosure was not 
ascertained ; the number of graves was scarcely sufficient to warrant 
its being set down as a cemetery. The east face of this square was 
the only part in the whole settlement which showed any trace on 
the surface, before excavation. The East Drain ran from the 
Salisbury Road in a north-west direction, and on approaching the 
Roman Road turned and ran parallel to it, crossing the Boundary 
Drain, and running on beyond it, down hill. It contained three 
skeletons, on the bottom of the drain, buried extended (like those 
of Woodcuts and Rotherley) in the direction of the drain, with the 
heads in this case to the north. This and the Cross Drain, and the 
Roman Road Drain on the west side, suggest, from their parallelism 
to the road, that they must have been made subsequently to it, 
because the road approaches the settlement without a turn, having 
run in a straight line from Sorbiodunum, and as it did not adapt 
itself to the drains, the drains must have taken their course from it. 
