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REFERENCES TO THE PLATES. 



Plate I. General Plan of the Roman Villa at North "Wraxhall shewing the 



well, cemetery, villa, and out buildings, as excavated 1859, 

 Plate II. Detailed plan of the principal building. 

 A. and B. Sudatories. 



C. Roman with the " Loutron," or Stone-bath at the end. 



D. Tepidarium (?) 



E. Fornax, or Furnace-room, 

 e. Depot of Charcoal. 



F. Another furnace sunk below the floor of 

 G-. Frigidarium ? opening into 



H, Exedra or Corridor, leading to the Baths. 

 Plate III. Bird's eye view of the Thermae or Baths. 



Plate IV. Various objects found in excavating the Roman Villa at North 

 Wraxhall. 

 Fig. 1. Flue-pipe. 



2. Glass funnel. 



3. Form of three pipkins of black ware found entire, each with its 



cover, upon the flues in D, 9 inches in height. 



4. and 5. Capitals and bases of stone columns. 



6. Eaves-crest. 



7. and 8. Gable ornaments carved in stone. 

 9. Stone Sarcophagus and cover, 8 feet by 3. 



10. Stone with sunk cavity for Cinerary Urn. 



11. Crescent breast ornament, formed of two boars' tusks with bronze 



mounting having figures of a boar and dogs upon it. 



12. Similar crescent worn by an Arab Chief on the breast of his horse. 



13. Led horse of the Emperor Trajan bearing a similar ornament, from 



the " Colonna Trajana." 



14. Form of hexagonal building tiles. 



15. Rude bas-relief found 1825 in Castle Combe parish, near the 



Wraxhall Villa. 



