By Harold Brakspear, F.S.A. 



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Towards the north of the chamber were found remains of a 

 tesselated pavement in 1898. It apparently consisted of a two- 

 ringed knot pattern of white, red and blue tesserce surrounded by 

 a white and blue fret border. This piece of pavement was unfor- 

 tunately removed in 1898 without proper measurements being 

 taken, but from a rough tracing of Mr. Hardy's the accompanying 

 sketch has been made. 



SCALE I Inni l I 3 FEET. 



Restored pavement of Chamber VIII. 

 (From a tracing taken by Mr. Hardy.) 



Towards the south-east of the chamber was a fragment of opus 

 signinum, 1 which may have been used to repair a defective piece 

 of floor. 



Across the centre of the floor was a drain running northward 



1 Some of the rooms which were not laid with tesselated pavements seem 

 to have been floored with this material — a strong concrete formed of gravel 

 and small bits of broken tile, the whole ground down to a smooth surface, 

 making a durable floor of pleasing appearance. Considerable masses of it 

 were found mixed with the wall plaster. [E.H.G.] 



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