1 / 8 BUEIAL OF THE EEMAINS Chap. IV. 



was carried away, we may agree with 

 Elie de Beaumont, who, in discussing this 

 Bubject, says, " pour une voiture de materiaux 

 " qui en sort, on y en fait entrer cent." * Nor 

 should we overlook the effects of fires, the 

 demolition of old buildings, and the removal 

 of rubbish to the nearest vacant space. 



Abinger, Surrey. — Late in the aiatumn of 

 1876, the ground in an old farm-yard at this 

 place was dug to a depth of 2 to 2^ feet, and 

 the workmen found various ancient remains. 

 This led Mr. T. H. Farrer of Abinger Hall to 

 have an adjoining ploughed field searched. 

 On a trench being dug, a layer of concrete, 

 still partly covered with tesserse (small red 

 tiles), and surrounded on two sides by broken- 

 down walls, was soon discovered. It is 

 believed f that this room formed part of the 

 atrium or reception-room of a Roman villa. 

 The walls of two or three other small rooms 

 were afterwards discovered. Many fragments 

 of pottery, other objects, and coins of several 



* ' Lefons de Gfologie pratique,' 1845, p. 142. 



f A short account of this discovery was published in 'The 

 Times' of January 2, 1878; and a fuller account in 'Tlie 

 Builder,' Januaiy 5, 1878. 



