140 ON KOMAN REMAINS AT SOUTH SHIELPS, 



■which have been excavated still belongs. They show the fonim, 

 with its channelled stones, a portion of the prostrate wall, and 

 the curious table altar, (Plate VI.) ; they show the sunken cham- 

 ber with its steps, its window, impluvium, and massive walls, 

 (Plate YII.) ; they show also the perfect drains, (Plate IX.) ; the 

 masonry of the eastern rampart ; the south-east comer with its 

 broad chamfered stones, (Plate YIII.) ; a hypocaust; the rooms 

 on the ground floor of a house ; the temple or basilica near the 

 western rampart, (Plate X.) ; and a Roman grave with its occu- 

 pant in situ, (Plate XII. This latter was found near d, on the 

 General Plan, Plate Y.)* 



Through the kindness of the Committee of the Free Libraiy 

 and Museum of South Shields and their Librarian and Curators, 

 I am also enabled to lay before the Meeting a few of the interest- 

 ing articles contained in the very valuable collection, historically 

 speaking, that has been formed by the explorers. I have here 

 fragments of tiles, with the insciiption " COH. V. G." ; a fragment 

 of biick, with the inscription ^ ; another fragment of tile, with 

 the impress of the foot of a Dog ; here are also tlie marks made 



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No. 10. 



on the soft clay by the violent beating of Raindrops, (TVoodcut 

 No. 10); and still another fragment, with the impress of the 



* By the kindnes.<« of J. Droughton, Esq., the Agent for the Ecclcainstlcal Commissi oners 

 At South ShicKii, the Club has been allowed to reprotlucc, by (he nld of Mr. J. Storey's 

 fftcllc pencil, (»onie of the more ■triking of thexe views, for the illUHtrntloii of this pafier. 



