Ixxiv. PlPEHfiAn NEVILLE MEETING. 



when it was restored to its proper use, and re-illuminated by the help of 

 Hutchins' note. 



The churchyard is kept up out of the road at the east end by a wall. Thirty years 

 ago this was still of small rough stones laid one on top of another flat-wise and 

 without mortar. Pieces of the wall have since fallen out into the road from time 

 to time, and been rebuilt. The last piece on the north side came down this spring, 

 and it was then that these fragments of a medieval font were found on the road, 

 and just inside where the wall had been. They so nan-owly escaped being built 

 in again that it is probable that most of the rest was built in when the other 

 adjacent pieces of the wall fell out. 



The remains of the rood screen were preserved in 1865 by the care of Mr. Louis 

 Loder, then clerk of the parish. Mr. George Loder, the present clerk, has kindly 

 made a rough sketch of the screen as it was standing at that time. The tiles in 

 the sacrarium are copies of ancient tiles found in the foundations of the chancel. 

 Three or four of the ancient tiles are placed on the steps." 



INIr. W. Miles Barnes expressed regret at the old stonework 

 having been retooled. 



The Roman Villa at Fifehead Neville. 



Then the party resumed the journey to Fifehead. A mosaic 



floor, i3|ft. by iiAft., was found here in 1880, and in a 



communication to the Society of Antiquaries was thus 

 described : — 



" The design consists of a sort of vase in the centre ; next, a ring of fishes like 

 gurnets ; and next, a ring of four sea-monsters like dolphins, which is set in a 

 square. The colours and materials used are these: 1st, the main part of the 

 ground of hard white clunch; 2nd, a bright red of terra-cotta; 3rd, brown of 

 soft argillaceous pebbles from a neighbouring stream ; 4th, bluish-grey of 

 Purbeck marble. The tesserae average §-inch square, and are set on a thick bed 

 of cement." Much pottery and iron objects, such as roofing-nails, spear-heads, 

 and ring staples, were found ; bronze objects, such as ear-rings, fibulte, and keys ; 

 two bracelets and a large bead of Kimmeridge clay ; bones of the deer and horse, 

 tusks of the wild boar, and shells of the oyster, cockle, and edible snail ; and a 

 large number of coins. These last are of third brasses, of Probus, Carinus, and 

 Constantinus Maximus and his son; ranging, therefore, from a.d. 276 to 

 A.D. 340. 



Here the Rev. G. H. Engleheart, F.S.A., who conducted 

 the members over the villa, read the valuable paper, which is 

 printed on page 172. In reply to questions addressed to him, 

 Mr. Engleheart said 



