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The Bom an Villa at Box. 



covered the whole area at about 2| feet below the present surface. 

 A fine ashlar wall, forming the north side of this mill-race, crossed 

 chamber C. diagonally ; but the corresponding side on the south 

 was not found. 



Outside the buildings was found a portion of a stone drain, 

 having a 12 inch wide channel exactly similar to that beneath the 

 eastern wing of the villa. It followed the outside walls of chambers 

 F. and E., and then turned at right angles, but it could not be 

 traced further owing to modern work above. 



Note* 011 ©bjrcts founts 



By Jftev. E. H. Goddard. 



The list of objects found on the site is a singularly meagre one, 

 a condition of things accounted for by the fact that the ground 

 had been often disturbed and turned over before. 



Worked Stone. In addition to the altar, carved figure, and capital, 

 already described, a fragment of another capital of similar but not 

 identical mouldings ; a single drum of a freestone column 1ft. 4in. 

 in height, with a diameter of 12 Jin., found previously by Mr. Hardy, 

 and shown in the photo of "Buttresses of added Building;" a 

 fragment of moulding ; what appears to have been a small capital 

 greatly weathered and worn; 1 a finial ornament (?) in the same 

 condition [a precisely similar piece of stone is in the Silchester 

 collection at Eeading] ; and a large piece of a grooved millstone of 

 Old Eed Sandstone (not a quern), the material of which is pro- 

 curable near Bath, were found. 



Marble. A single fragment, about 2in. square and fin. thick, of 

 a carefully-sawn slab of marble, which has been polished one side, 

 possibly for the panelling of a wall. It is green and white in 

 colour, with black crystals interspersed. Except for these black 



1 This capital and finial are now at Devizes Museum. 



