. Transactions of the Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society. loured red, white,blue, and drab, laid on a bed of common mortar, which in its turnrested on the original native ground.* Rev. J. H, Hill read the following remarks upon the drawingsexhibited by him :— Medbourne Tessellated Pavement. I have much pleasure in exhibiting a very excellent drawing (byMr. Dibbin) of the beautiful tessellated pavement lately removedfrom Medbourne. This pavement was found in the year 1721 in asquare entrenchment, not very far from the church, situated to thenorth of the Via Devana, which pa
. Transactions of the Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society. loured red, white,blue, and drab, laid on a bed of common mortar, which in its turnrested on the original native ground.* Rev. J. H, Hill read the following remarks upon the drawingsexhibited by him :— Medbourne Tessellated Pavement. I have much pleasure in exhibiting a very excellent drawing (byMr. Dibbin) of the beautiful tessellated pavement lately removedfrom Medbourne. This pavement was found in the year 1721 in asquare entrenchment, not very far from the church, situated to thenorth of the Via Devana, which passed through this parish fromCottingham to Leicester, by Slawston, where it assumed the nameof Port Hill, to Cranoe Salters way, and so on by Glooston toLeicester. This pavement was again opened in 1793, and in thebeginning of this year it was opened by a gentleman who bought * By the courtesy of Mr. Dibbin a reduced uricoloured copy of that gentlemanselaborate coloured drawing of the Pavement, made to scale, is here given. The useof a strong glass will show every AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 71 it, and removed it (I believe) to London. The pavement lay duenorth and south, about three feet and a half beneath the floor consisted of tesserae as follows: whinstone (blue), brick(red), oolitic stone (drab), and white, which was a size of these tesserae averages about half an inch, but thoseon the outward portion of the pattern are double the size. Thepattern, as you will observe from the drawing, is very rich incolour and elegant in design, and the size in its perfect state musthave been forty by twenty feet, or perhaps more. The pavementmust be of early date, perhaps about the beginning of the fourthcentury; it formed the entrance hall of a Eoman villa. Too muchcredit cannot possibly be given to Mr. Dibbin and his staff for thevery careful way in which the pavement has been measured andphotographed, by which the design of the entire pavement ha
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