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ARCILrEOLOGIA. 



In the Antonine Itinerary, on the line of road between Callevs 

 (Silchester) and Venta Belgarum (Winchester), both of rhera towns 

 of importance, we have a station bearing the name of Vindomis. It 

 was fifteen (R< »man) miles from the former place, and twenty-one from 

 the latter, it was evidently a small place, and had left so little traco 

 behind it, that antiquaries were disagreed as to where it stood. 

 Sir Richard Colt Hoare seemed to have given substantial reasons 

 for supposing that the site of Vindomis must be sought at a place 

 called Finkley Farm, close to the old London road, not far from 

 Andover, in Hampshire, and he fixed the exact locality to a spot 

 called Nettle-Held, the very name of which would lead us to con- 

 clude that it had been ground covering ruins, and therefore out of 

 cultivation, and he had, in fact, obtained from the ground some 

 fragments of Roman pottery. It has proved that Sir Richard 

 Colt Hoare was very nearly correct in his conjecture. On the other 

 side of the road, separated by about two field-lengths from Nettle- 

 field, is a rather boldly-rising elevation, called Tinker's Hill, to which 

 the attention of a gentleman of antiquarian zeal in the neighbour- 

 hood, Mr. Charles Lockhart, was attracted by the much mot e frequent 

 discovery of Roman remains, especially in a field which was named 

 Castle-field, and calling in the assistance of the Rev. E. Kell, F.S.A., 

 they proceeded to excavate. The immediate result was the dis- 

 covery of a building of considerable dimensions, aud of undoubted 

 Roman workmanship. At the last meeting of the Archaeological 

 Association, on the evening of June 12, Mr. Kcll read a paper 

 giving a detailed account of this discovery. The building, the 

 foundations of which were thus brought to light, consiste t of a 

 large room, forming a parallelogram, sixty-six feet six inches in 

 length, and forty-one feet two inches in breadth, lying in a direction 

 not quite east and west, and having in the centre of its en stern end, 

 on the exterior, a much smaller room attached, measuring twenty- 

 two feet two inches in length, by fourteen feet in breadth, which 

 Mr. Kell calls a portico. The large building, which had evidently 

 formed only one apartment, appeared to ha.ve had a roof, supported 

 upon two rows of pillars, the bases of which remain, and which were 

 arranged in two rows of seven each, running in a line with the 

 side-walls of the portico. The bases of the columns were four 

 inches long by thirteen inches wide. A large number of the ordi- 

 nary Roman roofing slates, hexagonal in shape, were found scattered 

 about the building, the nails which held them together remaining 

 in some of t hem. The floor was simply pitched over with flint 

 stones. There were tound distributed on the floor four stones, or 

 rather, as we understand it, large clay tiles, two feet long by six- 

 teen inches broad^ artificially laid, which appeared to be intended 

 for places for liivs, for their surfaces had been blackened, by 

 the burning. There were also found constructions to which Mr. 

 Kell gives the name of furnace, placed in a regular manner at the 

 western end of the room, towards its centre, which Mr. Kell sup- 



