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was effected by planks supported on long stones, set upright in the water. Though 
the island has long since been removed (by the grandfather of the present owner), 
one of the stones was left standing upright in the water, and so remained till a 
late summer, when the water being let out of the pond, the stone was pushed 
down, and immediately under it (embedded in the soil on which it had for so 
many years stood) were found very many Roman tesserx of different colours and 
sizes, some of which I have now by me. This pond had been for some centuries 
back a mill-head or dam to an overshot wheel ; and ‘Boxe Mill’ mentioned in 
the ‘Monasticon’ as belonging to Farley Monastery, I have no doubt was 
situated near this spot, and driven by water from this pond. Little remains of 
a will are now visible here, excepting the place of the overshot wheel, and the 
circumstance that very many old-fashioned millstones are to be seen in the 
pavements about the premises. To the protection of this stone from the effect 
of the continual washing of the water must be ascribed the preservation for so 
long a period of these Roman tessere in so singular a situation, and which 
contribute not a little to the support of the traditions above-mentioned.” 
This was succeeded in 1838, part I., pp. 357-8, by a fuller 
notice :— 
“ We have been favoured by the Rev. George Mullins, the’ Vicar of Box, with 
the following description of some Roman antiquities recently discovered at that 
place : ‘In the supplement to the first part of your vol. ci., p. 596 a correspondent 
in speaking of the antiquities of the village of Box, mentions the existence of 
some Roman remains in my garden. The discovery which he alludes to was 
that of a tessellated pavement found there a few years ago. I believe that until 
that discovery no site of Roman remains could be pointed out in the village, 
although tradition spoke of their existence. I have now to announce a further 
and more important discovery, which has taken place within the present year. 
In excavating some earth at the distance of forty-three yards north from the 
pavement before alluded to, evident traces of another, but in a state of destruction, 
presented themselves ; and in a line leading from this immediately to the former 
T found seven stone pillars, of rough workmanship, and near them is an altar-like 
erection, consisting of several stones, and a piece of stone of a semi-circular 
shape, about a foot across and eight inches thick, partially excavated on each side 
as if for the purpose of holding something. This stone bears evident traces of 
fire. Distant twenty-eight yards to the west were the mutilated remains of a 
tessellated pavement of blue stones, ornamented with two red borders, the 
tesserze nearly an inch square, and the blue stones entirely decomposed. This 
pavement in its original state must have been at least 10 or 12 feet square. The 
remains of a wall on the south side were covered with several flues, made of 
whole bricks, supported by iron cramps ; and underneath the bed on which the 
pavement was laid, made of coarse gravel and mortar, were large flags, supported 
by pillars of stone forming a regular hypocaust. The discovery of this pavement 
induced me to make an opening ata point where I might conjecture from the 
direction of the hypocaust where remains would be found; and ata depth of four 
feet below the surface of the earth I discovered a third tessellated pavement, very 
nearly perfect, apparently forming a passage from some other part of the building. 
Tt is nine fect wide, twenty-eight feet long, and turns at a right angle, six feet, 
