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ox ROMAN UEMAIXS AT SOUTH SHIELDS, 



throughout were somewhat more than six feet in thickness. In 

 many phices the facing stones are gone, hut the core remains. 

 At the eastern gateway the explorers found a room, with fire- 

 place, and doorway with place for bar as fastener, and, next to it, 

 another room, with plastered wall, and colour still distinct upon 

 the plaster. Of the antiquity of this there could not be the 

 slightest doubt, for in close proximity is a hypocaust with pillars 

 of single stones, and the whole is on the Eoman leyel, many feet 

 below the surface of to-day. 



In another spot, not far from the eastern rampart, the remains 

 of a large and wealthy house were found. Here was a veiy per- 

 fect hypocaust, with sooty flue, coal, and many rooms. A portion 

 of the wall of one room was within a few inches of the surface 

 of the earth, though the concrete floor adjoining was five feet 

 below the surface. Here was found a bronze lamp, not a com- 

 mon find in the Stations *' per lineam valli,"* (Woodcut, Xo. 6,) 



No. 6. 



a writing stilus, of which the following Woodcut Xo. 7) is'an 

 exact representation, of the precise size of the original, a bronze 



No. 



• Since wrltlnjf tlie nlwvc two more lumps hnve boon found, oiio of bronze, ami the 

 other of cnrthenwftrc. The latter in v.ry curi-.n-. of n do^n somewhat rciembllng • 

 ■eiilkip Mifll, pierced for.^« wick^. 



