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Show 206 BURIAL OF TilE REMAINS C HAP. IV. with broken tiles" was accumulated. Beneath one of the layers of charred wood, a valuable relic, a bronze e~ gle, was found : and this ~bows that the soldiers must have deserted the place in a panic. Owi11g to tl1o death of Mr. Joyce, I have not been able to a~certain beneath which of the two layers the eagle was found. The bed of rubble overlying the undisturbed gravel originally formed, as I suppose, the floor, for it stands on a level with that of a corridor, outside the walls of' the Hall; but the corridor is not shown in the f::ection as here given. The vegetable mould was 16 inches thick in the thickest part; a11d the depth from the surface of the fi eld, clothed with herbage, to the undisturbed gravel, was 40 inches. The section shown in Fig. 11 represents an excavation made in thb middle ·of the town, and is here introduced because the bed of" ri ch "mould" attained, according to Mr. t.Toyce, tl1e nnusual thickness of 20 inches. Gravel lay at the depth of 48 inches from the surface ; but it was not ascertained whetl1er this was in its natural state, or had been brought h en~ and had been rammed do,Yn, as occurs iu some other places. CHAP. IV. OF ANCIEN'r BUILDINGS. 207 The section shown in Fig. 12 was taken in the centre of the Basilica, a11d thongh it wa .1) feet in depth, the natural sub-soil was not Fig. 11. i\Joul<l, 20 iuclicR tb k k. lt uhhlr wi h broken t i les, 4 inches thiclc Black clrcayCII wood, in th ck,.~ t pa1 t ti i11Ch C; thick. Section in a block of buildings in t.hc middle of the town of Silchcs ter. reached. The bed 1narked ''concrete " wat:> probably at one time a floor; and .the bed beneath Sl·~em to be the rewnants of more ancient buildings. The vegetable mould was |