208 BURIAL OF THE REMAINS CHAP. IV 



with broken tiles " was accumulated. Be- 

 neath one of the layers of charred wood, a 

 valuable relic, a bronze eagle, was found; 

 and this shows that the soldiers must have 

 deserted the place in a panic. Owing to the 

 death of Mr. Joyce, I have not been able to 

 ascertain beneath which of the two layers the 

 eagle was found. The bed of rubble overly- 

 ing the undisturbed gravel originally formed, 

 as I suppose, the floor, for it stands on a level 

 with that of a corridor, outside the walls of 

 the Hall; but the corridor is not shown in the 

 section as here given. The vegetable mould 

 was 16 inches thick in the thickest part; and 

 the depth from the surface of the field, clothed 

 with herbage, to the undisturbed gravel, was 

 40 inches. 



The section shown in Fig. 11 represents an 

 excavation made in the middle of the town, 

 and is here introduced because the bed of " rich 

 "mould" attained, according to Mr. Joyce, the 

 unusual thickness of 20 inches. Gravel lay 

 at the depth of 48 inches from the surface ; 

 but it was not ascertained whether this was 

 in its natural state, or had been brought here 

 and had been rammed down, as occurs in 

 f-ome other places. 



