. The Victoria history of the county of Nottingham;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE country people ' fairy pavements,' which had been found about a mile from the village, in a field from which stones and bricks were occasionally removed for agricultural purposes. Observing that several bricks from this spot were Roman, he determined on its exploration. At the beginning of the excavations walls were disclosed about a foot below the surface, and then several rooms of a villa of the corridor type, the entrance to which seems to have been by a corridor, 54 ft. long and 8 ft. wide, o
. The Victoria history of the county of Nottingham;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE country people ' fairy pavements,' which had been found about a mile from the village, in a field from which stones and bricks were occasionally removed for agricultural purposes. Observing that several bricks from this spot were Roman, he determined on its exploration. At the beginning of the excavations walls were disclosed about a foot below the surface, and then several rooms of a villa of the corridor type, the entrance to which seems to have been by a corridor, 54 ft. long and 8 ft. wide, on the east side (see plan, fig. 13, a). Remains of a fine tessellated pavement were unearthed in the centre room, and fragments of wall-plaster painted in stripes of purple, red, yellow, green, and other colours were found here and in five smaller rooms (plan, b), in which were also ashes and traces of fire. The floors in these latter were of opus Signinum (lime, clay, and pounded tile). In the corridor were the remains of another tessellated pavement, most of which had been destroyed by JlCDCt. Fig. 13.—Plan of Roman Villa at Mansfield Woodhousb a limekiln of recent date. It consisted of a border of tesserae of light stone colour surrounding squares or grey tesserae, all alike being nearly one inch square. Here again the walls were painted. At the south end of this corridor was a hypocaust (e), and adjoining it a small room with a doorway leading into another 24 ft. square, supposed to have been the kitchen. The top of a lamp, and part of a colander were foimd here, and there were marks of fire on the floor. The end walls of the hypocaust and of the room at the north end of the corridor were 5 ft., the outer walls 2^ ft., the party-walls i^ft. thick. Fourteen feet from the north- west corner of the villa was found a small building with flat stone paving. The pavement in the centre room (fig. 12), described by a contemporary writer as 'the most curious and beautiful of the so
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