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interesting and important is a large fragment of an inscribed 
Homan tablet found at a considerable depth below the surface, 
by the workmen employed in digging the drain from Monk Bar 
to the river Ouse, and presented to the Society by the Corpora¬ 
tion of the City. The fragment contains so large a portion of 
the inscription, that the letters which have been lost may, 
without much difficulty, be supplied. It records the execution 
of some public work by the ninth Legion, by order of the 
Emperor Trajan. It is, with one exception, the oldest memorial 
of the kind that has been discovered in Britain; and being 
connected with the earliest period of the history of Homan 
York, it may be justly considered as the most valuable of the 
ancient local remains by which our Museum is distinguished. 
A full description is about to appear in the Second Part of the 
Proceedings of the Society. 
During the last year the remains of a Homan villa were 
discovered in the parish of Collingham, in a field near the road 
leading from Bramham to Wetherby. In the course of the 
excavations which were carried on there under the superintend¬ 
ence of Mr. Procter and some other members of the Council, a 
large portion of a beautiful tessellated pavement was brought to 
light. This being carefully removed by our sub-curator, 
Mr. Baines, has been presented to the Society, with a bath, or 
a cistern, and remains of a hypocaust, by the Hev. B. Eamonson 
and the other Trustees of Lady Hastings 5 Charity, to whom the 
field belongs, and at whose invitation the excavations were 
undertaken. 
Besides the pavement from Toft-green which has been so 
successfully reconstructed in the lower room of the Hospitium, 
the Society has in its possession another found in the same place, 
with a large border of a third ; and this last excavation at 
Collingham has added to these an interesting portion of a 
fourth. The Society has long had authority to take possession 
of a fifth , buried beneath a saw-pit in Clementhorpe. Another , 
reported to be more beautiful in pattern, and more highly 
finished than any of the preceding, w~as lately discovered in the 
neighbourhood of Easingwold, not far from the line of the 
Homan road between the station at Malton and Isurium. It 
