408 Notes on Roman Remains at Boz. 
“the Wilderness,” and rented also the piece of ground adjoining— 
which was the spot on which the remains in question were found in 
1881. His son, the Rev. George Mullins, was Rector of Ditteridge. 
No accurate measurements or plan seem to have been preserved 
of the remains as they were found. At present the pavement is 
about 24ft. long by 5ft. broad, but this probably does not quite 
represent its original dimensions. As will be seen from the illus- 
tration, it seems to have been the floor of either a corridor, or two 
small rooms. It is said that considerable remains of hypocausts and 
hot-air flues were found connected with it. 
The most remarkable portion still existing is a semicircular sunk 
space 2ft. Qin. deep and 38ft. 4in. across the chord, which is said 
when discovered to have shown the channel by which the water 
entered—on the south-west side of the bow—and still retaining the 
thick lead pipe, 8in. in diameter, from which the water escaped in 
the north corner. Both the floor and the sides of this well are 
covered with tesserz. As to its purpose, Mr. Haverfield, to whom 
I submitted the photo, writes :— 
“T think the thing may well be a bath. There is something in Vitruvius 
about a similar shaped bath: at the moment I cannot find the passage. There 
is also a similar room, probably a bath, at Chesters, close to the N. Tyne. The 
arrangement of pipes in your Box instance is also greatly in favour of a bath.” 
The plate of a bath at Farley is copied from one in the Gentleman’s 
Magazine, February, 1823, p. 113, and is accompanied by a letter 
from Sir R. C. Hoare, in which he says :— 
* “ The site of the once celebrated Castle at Farley, the residence of the ancient 
family of Hungerford, is too well known to require any local description. Gibson, 
in his edition of Camden, mentions the discovery of a Roman pavement at this 
place, part of which was taken up and deposited in the Ashmolean Museum at 
Oxford, but from the recent discovery of a Roman bath in the most perfect 
preservation (see Plate 2) it is evident that this villa has not been explored. We 
are at this time engaged in tracing its limits, an account of which, with the 
ground plan, shall be sent to you when our researches are terminated. The 
dimensions of this little bath are given accurately in the annexed ground plan. 
The pipe to let off the water is denoted by a small circular mark.” 
As will be seen, the Farley bath is very similar in shape to the 
Box example. 
® Canon Jackson, in his Farleigh Hungerford, p. 2, says the Roman bath was found in “ Temple 
Field,” north of Farley on the road to Iford, 
