By the Rev. E. H. Goddard. 239 



Roman. Just on or over the parish and county boundary immediately 

 adjoining N". side of railway, E. of Church, in field in front of .Rectory, 

 a Roman villa found 1741 and rooms and pavements opened, all 

 covered by railway 1846. Further excavations by H. Hatcher 1845, 

 pavements and rooms in field called " Hollyflower." 1871 — 3 further 

 excavations by Kev. G. S. Master, pavements, baths, hypocausts, 

 pottery, Samian, &c, window glass, iron tools, bone objects, brooches, 

 coins Victorinus to Magnentius. Salisbury Museum. O.M. 72 NE. ; 

 W.A.M. xiii. 33 ; xxii. 243. [Holbury Copse where other Roman 

 objects were found is in Hants.] 



DEVIZES. 



Roman. When railway was made 1861, a quantity of Roman pottery, 

 Samian, &c, iron axe head, knives, nails, found with an interment at 

 Pans Lane. Devizes Museum Cat. II. 352, 387— 399d ; W.A.M. ix. 27 ; 

 xxiv. 345 ; xxxvi. 480, 508 ; xxxvii. 496. A skull in Cambridge 

 Museum. No. 144. 



Coins found near, 1853. W.A.M. i. 62. 



At Wick, several hundred coins in earthen pot 1699 on property of Sir 



John Eyles. A number of other vessels found later. W.A.M. ix. 29. 

 Close to site of Southbroom House set of 21 (or 19 ?) bronze " Penates " 



found 1714, in urn enclosed in tiles and cement, with coin of Severus. 



8 of the figures in the British Museum. W.A.M. i. 214; vi. 138 ; 



ix. 29 ; Waylen's Chron. of Devizes 279. 

 [" A Tessellated pavement found recently in the cellars of the Old Town 



Hall and still in situ," mentioned Arch. Journ. XLIV. 54 (1887). 



There is no truth in this statement. B. H. Cunnington]. 



DILTON MAKSH. 



Finds, Bronze Age. Cinerary urn found close to Chalcot House, in 

 possession of C.N.P. Phipps. M.E.C. 



Roman. Many Roman pottery vessels, brooches, &c, found on site of 

 Roman settlement in ground round Chalcot House, in possession of 

 C. N. P. Phipps (1908). O.M. 44 SE. ; W.A-M. xxxvi. 473. 

 Hoare notes that the whole tract between Dilton and Hisomley was 

 inhabited by Romano Britons. " All kinds of pottery," &c, at Short 

 Street just W.of Chalcot House ; Roman coins and pottery " dispersed 

 over the fields." A. W. I. 52, 53, Station II, 



DINTOK 



Earthworks. The ditch running irregularly from Hanging Langford 

 Camp to Stockton Works forms parish boundary atjDinton Beeches. 

 O.M. 59 SW. 



