. The Victoria history of the county of Nottingham;. Natural history. ROMANO-BRITISH NOTTINGHAMSHIRE most of the floors seem to have been of cement. These measured respectively i8 ft. bjr 17 ft. and 17 ft. by 11 ft., and were separated by a thick double wall from the room marked l. At the east end only one room had painted walls, the colours in which were very bright; at this part of the building were two hypocausts (Plan q and r ; see figs. 13 and 14), with their fireplaces and pillars of tiles supporting the upper floors, also a bath and cellars. A floor of large flat stones was removed in c
. The Victoria history of the county of Nottingham;. Natural history. ROMANO-BRITISH NOTTINGHAMSHIRE most of the floors seem to have been of cement. These measured respectively i8 ft. bjr 17 ft. and 17 ft. by 11 ft., and were separated by a thick double wall from the room marked l. At the east end only one room had painted walls, the colours in which were very bright; at this part of the building were two hypocausts (Plan q and r ; see figs. 13 and 14), with their fireplaces and pillars of tiles supporting the upper floors, also a bath and cellars. A floor of large flat stones was removed in clearing out one hypocaust, and the flues beneath were found. Fig. 14.—Hypocausts in Roman Villa, Mansfield Woodhouse (From Archaeologia) to be filled with earth. The flues here, which were very perfect, had a sort of chimney of coarse baked clay at the end of each. In clearing the other and larger hypocaust, some large pieces of cement, of lime and pounded brick, possibly fragments of the floor above, were found. In two very small rooms, perhaps cellars, at this end of the villa, were found fifteen small copper coins : one of Salonina ( 263-8), one of Claudius Gothicus ( 268-70), and three of Constantine ( 323-37), the rest illegible. Two oblong bases of pillars, with grooves on the top, were fixed in the inside walls of these small rooms, and these were thought by Major Rooke to be altars. His view was subsequently upheld by the discovery of a capital of an altar on the spot. Two walls projecting from the smaller hypocaust may have belonged to an open porch. Roofing slates were also found with holes pierced for fixing [Arch. loc. cit., for further details and measurements ; see also ibid, ix, 203, with pi. 12 (views of hypocausts)]. A hundred yards south-east of what is styled the villa urbana were two tombs ; of one only the foundations remained, but the side walls of the other were found, and a cement floor. Beneath this was a vault, at the bottom of which
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