The Roman Villa at Folkestone

46 THE ROMAN VILLA AT FOLKESTONE. by two chalk steps about 5 ft. long, with a south wall 9 ft. 6 in., and west wall 4 ft. 9 in. The passage into No. 3 is 4 ft. 1 in. long and paved with flanged tiles 1 ft. 8 in. wide. In No. 3 four piles were represented by the bottom tiles only, L0£ in. square ; the east and west walls, of stones, are 3 ft. 10 in. long, the north and south walls 7 ft. 10 in. A shorter passage leads in No. 4, where the bottom pilce tiles are 16 in. by 12 in., the east and west stone walls being 8 ft. 9 in. long and north and south walls 7 ft. 10 in. Over 3 was probably a sudatorium, over 4 a caldarium; the walls were fresco-painted and the floors had fine mosaics. No. 5 was probably a cellar, with a service room above. No. 6 A (13 ft. 6 in. by 7 ft.), with a drain in its north-west corner discharging into the big drain 6 B, was probably a lavatorium communicating with ISIo. 7. Its floor was of red concrete, and its north wall very solid (3 ft. 5 in. thick), consisting of big beach stones, tufa and red mortar. Nos. 7 and 8 form an apse-ended building. The oblong (7), measuring 21 ft. by 11 ft. 4 in., is divided from the apse (8) by a stout wall. The apse is supported externally by three buttresses, two independent, the other connectingit with No. 10. The dividing wall on the apse side is recessed, probably to accommodate a hot bath, the imbrex' drain from which ran out through the north wall of No. 7y probably a tepidarium. There were hypocausts under both, the floors over the hypocausts being circa 3 ft. 6 in. above the hypocaust floors. Both bathroom and tepidarium were faced with marble slabs and coped with marble moulding, pieces of which were found on the floor. As found, the east wall of No. 7 was 4 ft. 6 in. high, the west 6 ft. Outside the apse (W.) the top of the wall, as found, was 8 ft. 1 in. from the. stone-slabbed top of a soak-away drain running round the apse from below No. 10, which is on a lower level than, and unconnected with the big drain 6 B. The arches between 7 and 8, and 8 and the stoke-hole (W.) were both found firmly sealed with masonry: that in 7 was also carefully plastered over. This latter is 3 ft. high and 2 ft. broad, its crown being composed of a double row of brick voussoirs: