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most of the floors seem to have been of cement. These measured respectively i8 ft. bjr 

 17 ft. and 17 ft. by 11 ft., and were separated by a thick double wall from the room marked l. 

 At the east end only one room had painted walls, the colours in which were very bright ; at 

 this part of the building were two hypocausts (Plan q and r ; see figs. 13 and 14), with their 

 fireplaces and pillars of tiles supporting the upper floors, also a bath and cellars. A floor of 

 large flat stones was removed in clearing out one hypocaust, and the flues beneath were found 



Fig. 14. — Hypocausts in Roman Villa, Mansfield Woodhouse 



(From Archaeologia) 



to be filled with earth. The flues here, which were very perfect, had a sort of chimney of 

 coarse baked clay at the end of each. In clearing the other and larger hypocaust, some large 

 pieces of cement, of lime and pounded brick, possibly fragments of the floor above, were 

 found. In two very small rooms, perhaps cellars, at this end of the villa, were found fifteen 

 small copper coins : one of Salonina (a.d. 263-8), one of Claudius Gothicus (a.d. 268-70), 

 and three of Constantine (a.d. 323-37), the rest illegible. Two oblong bases of pillars, with 

 grooves on the top, were fixed in the inside walls of these small rooms, and these were thought 

 by Major Rooke to be altars. His view was subsequently upheld by the discovery of a capital 

 of an altar on the spot. Two walls projecting from the smaller hypocaust may have belonged 

 to an open porch. Roofing slates were also found with holes pierced for fixing [Arch. 

 loc. cit., q.v. for further details and measurements ; see also ibid, ix, 203, with pi. 12 (views 

 of hypocausts)]. 



A hundred yards south-east of what is styled the villa urbana were two tombs ; of one 

 only the foundations remained, but the side walls of the other were found, and a cement floor. 

 Beneath this was a vault, at the bottom of which stood an urn containing ashes, and some 

 unburnt human bones lay near it. The floor of this tomb consisted of three dressed stones, and 

 Its roof must have been of red tiles. Between the two tombs was a pavement 7 ft. square with 

 a kind of pedestal ' 



in its centre. On 

 clearing away the 

 earth fragments 

 were found of an 

 inscribed stone or 

 titulus sepulcralis, 

 which must have 

 stood thereon, but 

 the inscription is 

 incomplete (fig. 

 lS)\_Arch. Journ. 

 xliii, 29 ; Arch. 

 viii, 372 ; Corp. 



Inscr. Lat. vii, iifai^M 



197]. Fig. 15. — Inscription found in Villa at Mansfield Woodhou'b 



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