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produced no result, and as no smaller objects — coins, potsherds, and the 

 like — seem to have been discovered anywhere in the vicinity, I am 

 doubtful how to class the site.' 



(17) Nether Heyford. Here a villa was found in 1699 in the 

 Horestone or Horse- 

 stone meadow. The 

 principal discovery 

 was part of a mosaic 

 showing an elaborate 

 geometrical design in 

 red, white, blue and 

 yellow, in pattern not 

 unlike the southern- 

 most mosaic at Wel- 

 don, but fringed in 

 addition with a guil- 

 loche border (fig. 24). 

 Some other rooms 



Fig. 24. Mosaic found at Nether Heyford in 1699 (Morton, pi. xiv.). 



were observed to have white plaster floors coloured along the sides 

 with straight stripes of red, yellow and green ; and, as usual, roofing 

 slates and tiles, painted wall plaster and Samian and other potsherds 



» Morton, p. 521 (hence Bridges, i. 42 ; Gough, Add. to Camden, ii. 275); B.iker, i. 339; 

 information from Mr. T. J. George. 



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