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features. It is a room nearly square, and about 30 feet in 
its longest dimensions. The side towards the Watling Street 
seems to have been open, or at least the masonry of the wall 
presents the appearance of having had wide folding doors or 
a framework of wood of some kind in two compartments. 
In the centre of the room is a large pier of masonry, perhaps 
a table for workmen ; more towards the north-western corner 
a sort of furnace or forge was found, built of red clay, with 
a hole or cavity in the upper part sufficiently large for a 
man to thrust his head in. As the internal surface of this 
cavity was completely vitrified, and as there was much 
charcoal strewed about, there can be no doubt that the cavity 
had been occupied by a very fierce fire ; a low wall was 
traced across the room, from east to west, in a line with 
the furnace, and a shorter transverse one to the north. 
Upon the former, a little behind the forge, the excavators 
came upon what was supposed at the time to be the lower 
part of a column, with its base; but as it is formed very 
roughly, I think it more probable that it was a stone 
table for the use of the workmen at the furnace. Among 
other things found in this room were nearly a dozen hair 
pins, two of which were much more ornamental than any 
we had found before during the excavations, a much greater 
quantity of fragments of Samian ware, and of higher artistic 
merit than had previously been met with in one spot, a 
portion of a large bronze fibula, a number of coins and 
other things; one of the vessels of Samian ware is a fine 
bowl, with figures in high relief, representing a Stag hunt. 
Upon the lower wall of the sill about 60 copper coins 
were found together, and near them the fragment of a 
small earthen vessel, in which they had probably been 
carried by some one who dropped them here as he was 
hurrying out of the place. 
I have already said these buildings looked upon the open 
