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these stone vessels are remarkable examples of imitations in that 

 material of earthen pottery. 



The excavations at the Jewry "Wall at Leicester have been 

 carried very little farther than we announced in our last number, 

 and it is to be regretted that this has arisen from the want of the 

 necessary funds. The three piers at the northern extremity of the 

 wall have been quite exposed to their bases by the removal of the 

 earth, and a low brick wall has been built in front, upon which it is 

 proposed to place an iron palisade, by which the ruin will be 

 protected from mischievous people, and, at the same time, will be 

 perfectly visible to all who feel an interest in it. It is calculated 

 that to complete the excavations, and raise this protecting wall and 

 palisade, will involve altogether an expenditure of about sixty 

 pounds, to which only about thirty has yet been contributed ; and 

 surely so small a sum will not be long wanting to complete a work 

 of so much interest. As far as the exploration has yet gone, it 

 appears to confirm the opinion of some of the Leicester antiquaries, 

 that the Jewry Wall was the principal entrance to the Roman city 

 from the west. This wall had two faces, distinctly visible before the 

 buildings now seen at the back of it were raised. That which is 

 now built against and concealed, was the side which was presented 

 in the early history of the place to the approaching visitor. It was 

 the western face of the wall, as that we now see was its eastern face. 

 The western face offered two openings, or entrances, each about nine 

 feet wide, and about twenty feet high from the original level, with 

 an interval of fifteen feet between the two arches. On the eastern 

 side are four arches ; but it does not appear that the two at the 

 extreme ends of the structure were ever carried through, the two 

 openings on the eastern side having passed through the two inner 

 arches on the western side, though not in their centres. It has been 

 suggested by Mr. Henry Goddard, a very intelligent antiquary of 

 Leicester, that the two extreme arches on the eastern side served as 

 small guard-rooms or apartments for the sentries on duty. 



The remains of a fine and extensive Roman villa have been 

 discovered at the foot of Chedworth Wood, in Gloucestershire. 

 The discovery was made by a gamekeeper, who, while ferreting 

 rabbits, put his hand into one of their holes, and was surprised at 

 drawing out a handful of tesseraa. The site has since been excavated. 

 Eighteen rooms have been found, most of them communicating with 

 a corridor one hundred and twenty feet long. Many Roman 

 imperial coins, and the usual objects found on Roman sites, have 

 been met with ; but the most remarkable discovery connected with 

 it is that of two distinct instances of the Christian monogram. 

 The first was the most elaborate, and bore a remarkable resemblance 

 to that found on the coins of Magnentius ; the second was less 

 deeply incised, and had the appearance of having been scratched 

 with a pointed instrument. Only one instance was previously 

 known of the appearance of this monogram on a Roman building 

 in Britain. 



At a recent meeting of the Archaeological Institute, an account 

 was given of excavations made in a building within the ancient 

 entrenchments called the Castle Ring, at Beaudesert, in Stafford- 



