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where it is broken up ; but it evidently extended much further in both directions. 
In one corner is a curious stone cut in a form as though intended for a seat, but 
now only eight inches high, The pattern of this passage is particularly elegant. 
The ground colour is white; the exterior tessere coarse ; the blue lines of smaller 
cubes form the borders, six feet about, and the intermediate space is filled with 
semicircles, forming waving lines, blue, crossing each other at right angles ; 
these are again intersected by others of half the diameter, with their extremities 
united in the centre, and terminating in small crosses shaded with red and yellow, 
white and blue, and producing the most beautiful effect. I have preserved 
several specimens of the plaster from the walls, the colours of which were very 
bright when first exposed to the air. The patterns were principally imitations 
of Egyptian marble, with elegant coloured borderings, but I have not been able 
to discover a decided figure on any of the pieces. One small vase, holding about 
a pint, apparently of British workmanship, was taken up near the pillars, but 
unfortunately damaged by the spade. Numberless fragments of earthen vessels, 
small pieces of pavements, tesserae, and Roman bricks, are now in my possession. 
One room was evidently paved with square red bricks, quite plain. One small 
coin only has been found, and this was so far corroded as to be wholly illegible. 
There is another piece of pavement (which, however, I have never yet seen), in 
a distant part of my garden ; and the whole of the original buildings, if square, 
must have covered a considerable portion of ground, the most distant of the 
pavements being at least 50 yards apart.” 
The photo-print which accompanies these notes is reproduced from 
photographs taken when the pavement and bath were discovered at 
Box, and whilst they were still in situ. For permission to reproduce 
these I am indebted to the kindness of Messrs. Stier & Son, 19, 
New Bond Street, Bath, to whom the pavement belongs. 
For some time past the pavement and the small semicircular bath 
itself have been on view and for sale at Mr. Stier’s house, 14, 
Sydenham Terrace, Bath, near the Midland Station, having been 
taken up in sections and secured in strong wooden cases, so that 
they could be moved from place to place. In this process it has 
evidently been much restored, and apparently the tesser have been 
re-polished. 
It was discovered in 1881, during some building operations, on a 
bit of land just opposite the Church, and after being photographed 
‘was removed bodily. It seems difficult to decide whether this is or 
is not one of the pavements spoken of in the letters to the Gentle- 
man’s Magazine given above. The present Vicar of Box, the Rev. 
W. E. Gardiner, tells me that Mr. Mullins was never Vicar of Box, 
but that he lived just opposite the Church, at a house known as 
