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question was taken in by the College, it was levelled, for we 

 learn from Warren's book that it was converted into a fruit- 

 garden and mulberry trees planted in it. This would lead us 

 to expect that there must be a recent surface layer, but con- 

 taining many odds and ends of earlier date, turned over when 

 levelling the ground, or dug up when planting the trees ; and 

 this we found to be the case, as may be seen in the accompanying 

 section (fig. 15). We took out a sufficient number of objects 

 ourselves and watched the workmen enough to justify the 

 general conclusions we have arrived at ; but, as it was term- 

 time, and we had little assistance, we were obliged to trust the 

 information received from them as to the exact position of many 

 of the things found, some of which we should have been glad 



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Fig. 15. Diagrammatic Section in illustration of the layers containing Koman, 

 medieval, and later remains in the Garden of Trinity Hall. 



a. Garden soil and recent debris. 1 to 2^ feet. 



b. Earth containing bones, pottery etc. from 17th century back to an 

 unknown mediaeval date. 2^ to 3| feet. 



c. Pits with black earth, bones, pottery etc. of Koman date. Those 

 bottomed ran to a depth of about 10 feet. 



d. Low terrace gravel. 



to have seen in situ. We can, however, lay some interesting 

 facts before our readers. In the surface layer (a) were many 

 recent things, such as an egg-spoon, the top of an inkstand, 

 and some small ornaments. In the older layer (6) were bones 

 of domestic animals, ox, sheep, pig, dog, fowls. The fragments 

 of pottery showed a great variety of ware, mostly glazed either 

 wholly or in part ; some of known Cromwellian type ; some of 

 Elizabethan ; and some of probably much earlier date. 



In the Roman pits (c) the usual layers of oysters, mussels, 

 and bones of animals that had been used for food occurred, 

 with legs of the common cock with the spur-core. Were these 

 kept as relics by a cock-fighting people, as racing men and 



