By HY. COLLEY MARCH, M.D., F.S.A. 



(Read Sept. 10th t 1900.) 



JTTHE Dorset Field Club just twelve years ago visited 

 Preston to see the pavement, when an account 

 was given of the finding on Jordan Hill, in 

 1832, of a so-called Roman temple, a sana- 

 torium, and a cemetery. Of this, the last 

 edition of Hutchins' History of Dorset contains 

 many particulars. The pavement was found 

 by accident in 1852 by Mr. Scutt, the tenant 

 of the farm ; and it was fully uncovered for 

 the British Archaeological Association in 1871. 

 Our lamented Vice-President, the late Sir Talbot Baker, roofed 

 it over, and it was furnished with a wire protection by this 

 society. 



Much Romano- British pottery has been found in the 

 neighbourhood of this pavement, in the adjacent garden, in the 

 meadow, and in Preston churchyard, as well as many coins dating 

 from Gordian to Postumus, a period of about 30 years, in the 

 3rd century from A.D. 237 to 267. It is important to notice that 

 Postumus was an Emperor of Gaul, styled Germanicus Maximus, 

 who surrounded himself with a Gaulish court, and with artificers 

 of great merit. 



