By Harold Brakspear, F.S.A. 



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Chamber XXIX. apparently was an addition to the original 

 work. It was 12 feet from north to south and 17 feet long, 

 having walls If feet thick standing fully 3 feet in height. They 

 were faced externally with squared stones in courses, and seem 

 not to have been plastered. 



The portion of the villa found in 1881 stood to the south of the 

 central court, approached by a continuation of passage XVII., and 

 consisted principally of two chambers with hypocausts having 

 apsidal ends towards the west. 



Mr. Mann, in the paper already referred to, 1 describes what was 

 then exposed, and from his account the following description is 

 arranged to be in accordance with that of the recent excavations. 



Chamber XXX. was a passage in continuation of passage XVII., 

 but only 6 J feet wide. 



In the south wall was an opening only 2 feet wide. 



It had a pavement, having a large fret pattern in blue and white 

 tesserae, a patch of which at a little distance from its south end 

 "was discoloured by fire." It sloped 13J inches in its length 

 towards the north. 



Chamber XXXI. was a small square lobby at the end of the 

 passage entered through the narrow door from the last chamber. 

 It had on the east side at M " a rectangular piece of masonry, the 

 upper surface being level with the floor : most probably it served 

 as a pedestal of statuary or an altar." Unless it "marks the 

 position of any steps of access to a doorway which might have 

 been at a higher level than the top of the wall now seen." 



" The flooring is of white lias tesserae having the dark-coloured 

 fret pattern ; and its enclosing border, formed with tesserae of 

 Pennant, in colour a dark indigo." 



On the west side of this chamber is a wide opening into 



Chamber XXXII. , which Mr. Mann designates a bath. " The 



1 British Arcliceological Journal, xliii., 47 — 55. 



