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in the black deposit at the bottom, as well as fragments 

 of pottery and glass of a character which leaves little doubt 

 that the early fort is to be connected with the first Roman 



advance into Scotland — the invasion of Agricola. 

 Fort Within the Fort, the area lying to the East of 



Interior. the Via Principalis was investigated, revealing a 



series of lines of buildings running East and 

 West. Of these, six parallel blocks lay to the North of the 

 main road leading to the East gate, and six to the South. 

 The blocks next the ramparts on the North and South, and 

 those on either side of the road to the East gate, were single. 

 The intervening space on either side was occupied by two 

 double blocks (Plate IX). These long buildings which are a 

 common feature in Roman forts were the barracks of the 

 soldiers. A peculiarity of the Newstead plan is that each 

 block appears to have been divided into eleven small huts or 

 buildings, separated from each other by a narrow intervening 

 space. This area yielded a number of objects, the most 

 important being a fine bronze vessel resembling a modern 

 ewer and standing 11 inches high, the type being well known 

 in Pompeii, and in all probability belonging to the first 

 century of our era. That it dates from an early period in the 

 occupation of Newstead is evident from the fact that the 

 division wall of one of the barrack huts had been built over 

 the pit in which it lay. The other finds included two Samian 

 bowls, one bearing the stamp of CINNAMVS, a potter of 

 Lezoux during the Antonine period, a number of coins, small 

 enamelled studs, fibulee, and bronze mountings. 



From the greater part of the Prsetorium the earth was 



removed, and the buildings lying to the North 

 Praetorium. and South of it were further investigated. To 



the South lies a buttressed store-house of the 

 usual type, and immediately to the South of it a large square 

 court-yard house, generally identified as the commandant's 

 quarters, both of which were exposed on the occasion of the 

 Club's previous visit. North of the Praetorium is a second 

 buttressed store-house, with traces of another large building 

 beyond it ; but the remains of the latter are so near the surface 

 that the plough has almost entirely obliterated them. In 

 searching for the walls of this building, the workmen discovered 



