180 BURIAL OF THE REMAINS CHAP. IV. 



was carried away, we may agree with 

 Elie de Beaumont, who, in discussing this 

 subject, says, " pour une voiture de materiaux 

 " qui en sort, on y en fait entrer cent." * Nor 

 should we overlook the effects of fires, the 

 demolition of old buildings, and the removal 

 of rubbish to the nearest vacant space. 



AUnger, Surrey. Late in the autumn of 

 1876, the ground in an old farm-yard at this 

 place was dug to a depth of 2 to 2^ feet, and 

 the workmen found various ancient remains. 

 This led Mr. T. H. Farrer of Abinger Hall to 

 have an adjoining ploughed field searched. 

 On a trench being dug, a layer of concrete, 

 still partly covered with tesserae (small red 

 tiles), and surrounded on two sides by broken- 

 down walls, was soon discovered. Ift is 

 believed f that this room formed part of the 

 atrium or reception-room of a Roman villa. 

 The walls of two. or three other small rooms 

 were afterwards discovered. Many fragments 

 of pottery, other objects, and coins of several 



* ' Lecons de Geologic pratique,' 1845, p. 142. 



t A short account of this discovery was published in ' The 

 Times' of January 2, 1879; and a fuller account in 'The 

 Builder,' January 5, 1878. 



