By Harold Brakspear, F.S.A. 



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This chamber was apparently the westernmost of the range 

 forming the north side of the court, all the chambers of which are 

 19 feet wide from north to south and had a north wall 4 feet thick. 



Chamber IV. was a passage 4 J feet wide, and retained part of 

 its side walls above the floor level. 



It was paved with small blue and white tessera?, in a bold fret 

 pattern, and had a cream border, of which a small portion remained. 

 The whole pavement was found in fair preservation in 1898, but 

 was then taken up. 



Chamber V. was 18 feet from east to west, and was of considerable 

 interest. It was entered either from passage IV. or chamber VI., 

 and not directly from the court, as the wall on that side was 

 standing some 12 inches above the floor-level for its whole length 

 without an opening. 



It originally had a fine pavement, of which numerous fragments 

 were found, and stood over a hypocaust. 



Of the hypocaust some fifty-one straight-sided stone pilse 

 remained in position, and the stoke-hole, in the centre of the north 

 wall, was constructed with tiles. Against the south and part of 

 the east walls remained a number of flue-tiles set on the top of 

 the 3 inch ledge that formed the set-off of the foundation. 



This chamber was among those discovered by Mr. Mullins in 

 1833, and then " had mutilated remains of a tesselated pavement 

 of blue stones, ornamented with two red borders ; the tessera? being 

 nearly 1 inch square and the blue stones entirely decomposed. 

 The remains of a wall on the south side were covered with several 

 flues made of whole bricks supported by iron cramps, and under- 

 neath the bed on which the pavement was laid, made of coarse 

 gravel and mortar, were large flags supported by pillars of stone 

 forming a regular hypocaust." 



Chamber VI. was 15 feet from east to west and retained part of 

 its walls near both south angles above the floor-level. In the 

 centre of the south wall was a gap evidently for the entrance from 

 the court. 



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