220 Notes on a Roman Building, and Interments. 



be ascertained. Sixteen feet from the outside wall was a grave 

 sunk in the rock, 6ft. long, 2ft. wide, and 2ft. 6in. deep, containing 

 the bones of a young person lying east and west on the back in an 

 extended position, the head facing west, close behind which were 

 several pieces of black Roman pottery. On the south side the 

 workmen in digging a trench came upon a well- constructed stone 

 drain 6ft. deep leading towards the low land on that side. 



Each face of the angular piece of wall at A was about 3ft. in 

 length. The wall was about 4ft. in height, flat on the top, and 

 better constructed than an}' of the other walls. It was surrounded 

 with bits of culinary vessels. 



No tesserae or trace of any tessellated pavements having existed 

 here were found. 



The pottery discovered here, of which I have several hundred 

 pieces, consists of black, hard, and well-made fragments of large 

 urn-shaped jars, Samian or red glazed ware and other Romano- 

 British ware probably made on or near the spot. The most 

 interesting pieces are the bottoms of culinary vessels, a large piece 

 of a yellow mortarium, and fragments of Caistor ware decorated 

 with white spots. The other relics are a large quantity of orna- 

 mented flue-tiles, floor-tiles, stone roofing-tiles, fragments of a 

 cornice, specimens of lime and grit floors, oyster shells, the butt of 

 a large stag's horn cut with a saw, a small iron wedge, and a long 

 bone pin. 



The whole of the foundations here described have been destroyed 

 and carted away as road material, but the ground beyond A has 

 not yet been excavated. 



Within a few yards of the foundations is the well-known spring 

 of beautiful water said to contain medicinal qualities and used by 

 old people in the town for bad eyes. About fifty years ago a man 

 discovered near this spot a jar containing a hoard of coins. I have, 

 however, failed to trace them. 



At a distance of 400 yards to the west a man digging a trench 

 two years ago suddenly disappeared into a small cave or cellar 24ft. 

 long x by 4ft. wide and 7ft. high, the top of which was 6ft. under 

 the present surface-level ; the whole was cut out of the solid rock, 



