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from Andernach on the Rhine, imported into Britain by the 

 Romans. The gates here appear to have been of wood, bound 

 with iron ; and here a stone was found in which the pivot 

 at the top of the gate has been inserted. 



Passing another tower for the protection of the space between 

 this southern gateway and the angle tower, we reached the 

 S.E. angle of the Camp, where the mortar is clearly seen, 

 rubble concrate having been employed to fill the space between 

 the stone faces of this tower, as is usual in the construction 

 of the great Wall and the Camps. 



Next we vi(8it«d the eastern, "inner," gateway — i.e. south 

 of the Roman Wall — correspondiag to that before passed. 

 In this the later work has been generally cleared away, but 

 there are indications of three levels of occupation. 



Then was seen the site of a large villa outside the Camp, 

 and between it and the road, but within the Roman Wall. 

 It has a courtyard forty-five feet long by thirty feet wide, 

 along the western side of which is a row of seven arched 

 recesses in the thickness of the wall (Plate I.),''^ into which they 

 penetrate to a depth of eighteen inches. They are two feet wide 

 and three feet high to the crown of the arched stone, which 

 forms the top of each recess. The use of these recesses is un- 

 known, but numberless guesses have been made, among others 

 that they were niches for statues, for holding the clothes of 

 bathers, or for the protection of bee-hives. It contains ten rooms, 

 most of which have been heated by hypocausts ; one of these 

 rooms has an apsidal end, in the centre of which is the lower 

 portion of a window, with splayed jambs, which appears to 

 have been glazed, as many pieces of window slab were found 

 below it. There does not seem to be any indication as to 

 the way in which the casement was fastened to the stonework. 

 The furnace for heating the hypocausts was at the N.W. 

 corner of the block (Plate II.),* and in the rooms adjoining 

 it the arrangements of the hypocausts and of the wall flues 

 leading to the upper storey remain in good condition. At 

 the western bank of the Tyne, where the wall approached it, 

 were seen the lower courses of the Land abutment of a Roman 

 bridge, crossing the river, upon three stone piers, and having 



* From a photograph taken by Miss M. Milne Home. 



