. The Victoria history of the county of Nottingham;. Natural history. 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 ( 268-7
. The Victoria history of the county of Nottingham;. Natural history. 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 stood an urn containing ashes, and some unburnt human bones lay near it. The floor of this tomb consisted of three dressed stones, and Its roof must have been of red tiles. Between the two tombs was a pavement 7 ft. square with a kind of pedestal ' in its centre. On clearing away the earth fragments were found of an inscribed stone or titulus sepulcralis, which must have stood thereon, but the inscription is incomplete (fig. lS)\_Arch. Journ. xliii, 29; Arch. viii, 372 ; Corp. Inscr. Lat. vii, iifai^M 197]. Fig. 15.—Inscription found in Villa at Mansfield Woodhou'b 31. Please note
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