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rows having" been broken away. The red tesserae were of fine tile 

 or brick broken very roughly into inch-square cubes. The white 

 ones, of the same size, were formed of a hard fine-grained oolite. 

 They seem to have been simply laid down on a smooth bed of grit 

 and gravel — perhaps once mortar — and to have been cemented to- 

 gether with a white plaster or cement ; now they are quite loose and 

 detached. I may mention that the soil here is thin and the subsoil 

 is a bed of river gravel near the surface. 



Adjoining this pavement at the north end was a floor of gravel 

 concrete, marked " C " on the plan, about 2in. thick. This floor 

 was apparently nearly square, measuring 12ft. by lift. 



Having uncovered this we proceeded to search for further remains 

 over all that part of the field where tesserae appeared on the surface, 

 and soon came upon a second tessellated pavement, " B," in a line 

 with the first and 54ft. to the southward of it. This consisted of 

 three bands of tesserae of exactly the same character as those of 

 which the other floor was composed. The central red band, however, 

 and the outer white ones were in this case of the same breadth, each 

 lft. wide, and containing ten rows of tesseree ; the whole measuring 

 9ft. by 3ft. 



The edges seemed fairly straight and perfect, but the north end 

 appeared to have been broken away, and there was no means of 

 deciding whether the pavement had extended further or not. 



On the southern side was a concreted floor, " D," about 9ft. 

 square, precisely^like]the similar floor te C/ J but not so perfect ; and 

 lift, further to the south-west some large stones were found at 

 " G," apparently the foundations of a wall, some of which were 

 calcined by the action of fire. Possibly they may have formed part 

 of the heating apparatus, but only a few detached stones remained, 

 a cartload having been dug out of this very spot only last year. 

 With this exception no remains of walls could be found, so that it 

 was impossible to say whether the floors*" A — C " and " B — D " 

 belonged to the same or to separate dwellings. 



At " E," 34ft. to the south-west of the pavement " A" a patch of 

 rough stone pitching was found — possibly a part of the road to the 

 house, the stones being merely roughly set edgewise in the ground. 



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