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Show 212 BURIAL OF 1'IIE REMAINS CrrAP. IV. sunk considerably, espeCIally towards the 1niddlo; and this is shown in the three following sections. 1~ The measurements were Cl) ] made by stretching a string ~ tightly and horjzontally f!3 over the floor. The sec-w~ tion, Fig. 13, was ta] \ en from north to south across ~ . ~en a room, 18 feet 4 inches 1u :~8 length, with a nearly per ·~ feet pavement, next to the ~t>i l ]._ . "Red Wooden IIut.'' In ~ ~ the northern half, the sub- 8 sidence amounted to 5t ~ inches beneath the level of 8 the floor as it now stands Q:l ~ close to the walls ; and it ""d ~ was greater in the northern : than in the southern half; ~ <o but, according to Mr. Joyce, ] the en tire pa vern en t has C,) cJ3 obviously subsided. In several places, the tesserro appeared as if drawn a little away from the walls ; whilst CHAP. IV. OF ANCIENT BUILDINGS. 213 in other places they were still in close contact with them. In Fig. 14J we see a section across the paved floor of the southern corridor or ambulatory of a quadrangle, in an excavation made near ''The Spring." The floor is 7 feet D inches wide, and the broken-down walls now project only ! of an inch above its level. The field, which was in pasture, here sloped from north to south, at an angle of 3° 40'. The nature of the ground on each side of the corridor is shown in the section. It consisted of earth full of stones and other debris, capped with dark vegetable mould which was thicker on the lower or southern than on the northern side. The pavement was nearly level along lines parallel to the side-walls but had sunk in the middle as ' much as 7! inches. .A small room at no great distance from that represented in Fig. 13, had been enlarged by the Roman occ~pier on the southern side, by an addition of 5 feet 4 inches in breadth. For this purpose the southern wall of the house had been pulled down, but the foundations of the old wall had been left buried at a little depth |
