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poses to have been used for culinary purposes, as well as for giving 

 warmth. He describes the most perfect of them as being "a round 

 hole, five feet deep, the sides perpendicular to the bottom." It was 

 thirty-two inches in diameter. " The bottom was paved true all 

 over with stones laid in red clay, the upper side of the stones 

 coloured from the effects of fire." The western portico had had two 

 columns, one on each side, arranged in a manner to leave little 

 doubt that it had been the entrance to the building. No or her 

 remains of masonry were found in the vicinity of this building, so 

 that it appears to have stood solitary by itself, close to the Roman 

 road. Within the building, and on the surface of the field outside, 

 were picked up seven or eight fragments of Samian ware, and a 

 considerable quantity of other pottery, the half of a quern, some 

 fragments of glass of several colours, a few objects in metal, of 

 no great interest, and a few Roman coins, the latter chiefly of third 

 brass, and of the later period of the Roman empire in the West. 



We feel convinced that Messrs. Lockhart and Kell are correct 

 in identifying the ruins they have discovered on Tinker's Hill with 

 the Vindomis of the Antonine Itinerary, which was no doubt one 

 of the Roman stations, or halting- places on the road. On the sub- 

 ject of these station*, the reader may be referred to an excellent 

 paper by Mr. C. Roach Smith, in the fourth volume of his valuable 

 Collectanea Antlqiia, in which he describes one of these establish- 

 ments, the massive walls of which still remain standing at the 

 village of Thesee. between Tours and Grievres, in France. They were 

 sufficiently commodious for lodging troops on a march, and for all 

 the purposes of a large posting inn, being furnished with provisions 

 for men and horses, with carriages, and with other necessaries, the 

 allotment aud distribution cf which were under the inspection of 

 the Government agents, who were controlled by strict legal 

 enactments. This statio at Thesee, which is the Tasciaca of the 

 Itineraries, is of considerably larger dimensions than that of Vin- 

 domis, which we might probably expect, from the difference of these 

 two provinces. The two great cities of Calleva and Ven'a were 

 only thirty-six Roman miles apart, so that no statio of any great 

 magnitude could be wanted on this road between them, la a 

 country like Britain, where the ground has been so highly culti- 

 vated, and where the remains of the Roman period have experienced 

 so great destruction, we need not be surprised if no Roman statio 

 has been previously discovered, and we are inclined to consider 

 this of Vindomis as the only one of which the remains have yet 

 been traced. The remains discovered by Mr. Roach Smith, at 

 Hartlip, in Kent, and by the late Lord Braybroke, at Ickleton, with 

 which Mr. Kell would compare it — especially the former — were 

 villas, or country mansions, and belonged to an entirely different 

 class. Both Mr. Kell and Mr. Lockhart deserve great commenda- 

 tion for the zeal and judgment to which we owe so interesting a 

 discovery. 



Attention has recently been cnlled to the remarkably fine and 

 interesting Norman church ai Sr. M\:t<; arkt's-at-Cliffe, near Dover, 

 and the incumbent, the Rev. E. 0. Lucey, is making very meri- 



