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Title: Archaeologia cantiana
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Kent Archaeological Society. cn
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Publisher: (London) Kent Archaeological Society
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he large tiles,their undersides being blackened with smoke, then the layer ofconcrete. In the north wall of this chamber were two imbrex rooftiles serving as smoke flues, which communicated below the floorwith the two arms of the Y channel. Prom this room we obtaineda Roman spear-head 10 in. long, and a turning tool 13 in. long witha gouge-shaped tip, both of iron. The antiquity of the latter isdoubtful. 19. Room, 9 ft. 3 in. by 9 ft. 6 in., with an entrance into No. 184 ft. 3 in. wide. The west wall was much broken away, and it istherefore almost impossible to say how it related to No. 22, but therewas probably an entrance into it from that room. The floor of thechamber was of white concrete with a tile embedded here andthere. 20. 21. Appeared to have formed the head of the inner corridor(No. 25). If No. 20 was an apartment the short wall seen in thePlan, opposite an external buttress in the south wall, must have con-tinued to the south-west angle of No. 19, with perhaps a doorway in
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THE ROMAN VILLA AT BAltENTH. 59 it. In the north-east corner of No. 20 a small portion of redtesselated pavement remained. We have now to describe a series of summer apartments with acorridor back and front. The walls of this block were so low thatnone of the entrances to the rooms were visible. 22. Room, 22 ft. 6 in. by 5 ft. 9 in., paved with white concrete.Portion of a coping-stone of sandstone found here. 23. Room, 22 ft. 6 in. by 10 ft. 8 in., paved with white concrete.Other fragments of coping-stone found. 24. Room, 22 ft. 6 in. by 10 ft. 4 in., paved with white concrete. 26. Room, 22 ft. 6 in. by 19 ft. 8 in., paved with red tesserae. 25. Room or passage, 22 ft. 6 in. by 7 ft. 3 in. 29. Room, 22 ft. 6 in. by 21 ft. 11 in., paved with red tesserae. The floor of No. 24 was 6 in. below the level of No. 23, and Nos.2G, 28, and 29, 1 foot lower than No. 24. These six rooms had round the margin of the floors the samekind of moulded skirting of red cement that was present in some ofth

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