640 Notes. 



to Alexander, Galienus, Tetricus, Carausius,and others. The excavations 

 under the direction of Mr. Money have now been extended to the 

 western side of the road from Devizes to Chippenham. Here a fresh 

 floor has been discovered, supporting several layers of large flat I ks 

 placed at regular intervals and bearing ardent marks of the a i of 

 fire. These are supposed to have belonged to the furnac w i the 

 hot air was generated before it was admitted into tl e u vvhich 

 everywhere intersect the foundations of the villa. Aroun ..is spot 

 the earth is very black and loose and has yielded many r ., viz., a 

 dozen and a half ivory pins about 3 inches in length — <■ itities of 

 pottery of various quality, shape, and colour, — burn 4 - H«tu: bones — 

 remains of horses, sheep, boars, and other animals- antlers — 



fragments of iron chain, keys, nails, etc. 



" Since our last notice the excavations have been continued till the 

 baths were discovered and completely exposed to view. Four of them 

 are in excellent preservation considering the many centuries they have 

 been in the earth. They are paved -with fiat brick tiles about a foot 

 square and lie four or five feet beneath the surface. Other interesting 

 parts of the building have been brought to light during the past week." 



" A very accurate ground-plan of the villa has been laid down by 

 Mr. Cleverly, architect of Calne, which with some account of the in- 

 vestigation, Mr. Money, we are informed, shortly purposes to lay before 

 the Society of Antiquarians in London." 



The excavation was very shortly afterwards filled in again. The 

 plan referred to is not now to be found in the Library of the Society of 

 Antiquaries. 



All the above paragraphs, except the first, are from the Devizes Gazette, 

 Sept. 24th, to Nov. 5th, 1840. W. A. Webb. 



Barrow at Knowle Farm, Little Bedwyn. Mr. E. 



Thurlow Leeds, F.S.A., of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, writes, on 

 March 2nd, 1914, as follows : — 



"In looking for something else,this morningj came across the enclosed 

 note at the end ofone of our old MS. Catalogues [Catalogus Cimetiorum 

 Musei Ashmoleani (c. 1697)]. It has been a loose page lying in the end 

 of the book where the ink has marked the opposite pages but at some 

 date has been stuck in at another position. The catalogue is not paged 

 in any way. Evidently there was more of it, but this is not now forth- 

 coming. As to ithe urn, I have never seen the name on ours, but I 

 suspect it may be one of two large (Bronze Age cinerary) urns with 

 deep rim, whose provenance is unknown, which were here prior to 1836." 



" A Roman Urn : given by the Rev. Mr. Buckler Fellow of All-Souls 

 Coll., 1754." 



