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house, consisting of a single hypocaust chamber into which led a tile-built 

 flue, 9 ft. long, which heated a warm bath or cauldron, built in a small 

 rectangular recess. Opening out of the hypocaust were a cold bath and 

 a tiny cement-lined semicircular recess, retaining its lead outflow pipe. 

 Pottery found in the flue and stoke-hole showed that the whole structure 

 had gone out of use before the beginning of the fourth century. 



Some 55 yards to the west, and north of the early fortlet, was a small 

 corridor house, originally 52 ft. long and 19 ft. 6 in. wide, probably 

 erected in the first half of the fourth century. It partly overlay an earlier 

 rectangular building that may have been an earlier dwelling-house. 

 This corridor house originally consisted of two hypocaust chambers 

 with separate furnaces, joined by a corridor. One of these rooms had 

 opening from it a small cement-floored rectangular chamber that had 

 the appearance of a bath. Subsequently the house was enlarged by the 

 addition of a veranda on the southern side and two additional hypocaust 

 chambers at the front and back of the house, but at opposite ends. Two 

 of the hypocaust chambers were certainly provided with tesselated pave- 

 ments, having a design in red, white, yellow and black, while the walls 

 of all four were covered with coloured plaster. 



Probably contemporary with the house were two long rectangular 

 buildings to the south-west, overlying the site of the early fortlet. The 

 easternmost of these showed two distinct periods of occupation. In its 

 southern end lay a single hypocaust chamber, 8 ft. long by 6 ft. 3 in. 

 wide, its floor originally supported on pilae of square tiles and its walls 

 decorated with red and white plaster. It was served by a flue long 

 enough to provide means for heating a cauldron or warm bath. The 

 whole was probably a minute bath-house. Along with the building in 

 which it stood it had been destroyed, probably in the second half of the 

 fourth century, when it was incorporated in a larger room and the tesserae 

 from its floor used as road metal for the road leading into the east side 

 of the main building through a gate which was provided with sockets 

 and slots for a timber frame. 



The whole settlement was bounded on the south and partially on the 

 north by a ditch. That on the south twice crossed the ditch of the 

 early fortlet, the existence of which must have been unknown to its 

 makers. It also underlay the footings of one of the long rectangular 

 buildings, and must belong to an early phase of the civil occupation. 

 Probably contemporary with the corridor house, and to the north of it, 

 the footings of a substantial boundary waU were traced for 320 ft. 



Several other structures on the site were of special interest. West 

 of the house and to the north of the buildings just described was a circular 

 building, 15 ft. 9 in. in internal diameter and having a circular patch 

 of paving in the centre. This building is without parallel, and most 

 probably was a horse mill or manual mill. There was a good deal of 

 evidence to indicate that corn production was the principal occupation 

 of the inhabitants. One small room contained a layer of burnt wheat on 

 its floor. Close to this was a rectangular platform, 30 ft. wide and 35 ft 

 long. Its construction was peculiar. A pit of these dimensions had 

 been dug on the site of an earlier building and filled in with layers of 



