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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2011
I Have the honour of laying before you to-night, on behalf of my colleagues, the sixteenth detailed report of the Executive Committee of the Silchester Excavation Fund, that for the year 1905.
The excavations last year extended over the six months from 19th May to 18th November, and were carried out under the direction and supervision of our colleague Mr. Mill Stephenson, to whom we have again to express our grateful thanks for his ungrudging and freely given help.
page 150 note a Along this wall, as described in our Report for 1892 (Archaeologia, liii. 569), is a long drain, square in section, and formed entirely of large tiles. It runs southwards for at least 120 feet.
page 150 note b The dimensions of these were: 3 and 4, about 15½ feet square; 5 and 6, 15½, feet by 11½ feet.
page 150 note c Archaeologia, liv. pl. xlvGoogle Scholar.
page 151 note a Two breaks in the dividing wall between court and portico may indicate the places of doorways.
page 151 note b The dimensions of these in feet are: (3) 12½ by 10; (4) 13 by 26, but originally two rooms, one about 8½, the other about 16½ long; (5) (6) 11½ by 15½.
page 151 note c In the western part of the corridor and near its north wall is a length of foundation of the same date which seems to belong to some abandoned plan. It may, however, possibly have carried a narrow stair to an upper storey.
page 152 note a This covers the site of a well 14½ feet deep with a wooden tub lining the bottom.
page 152 note b Underlying the western part of these chambers is part of a wall of earlier date.
page 152 note c The dimensions of these rooms in feet were: (5) 21 by 8; (6) 17 by 13½; (7) 17 by 16; (8) 25 by 19¼; (9) 10½ by 9.
page 153 note a The area of these in feet was: (1) 15 by 12; (2) 15 by 6¼; (3) 21 by 3¼.
page 154 note a Only a fragment of a braidwork border remained.
page 154 note b The dimensions of the various rooms of House No. 2, in feet, were as follows: (1) 14½ by 17; (2) 16½ by 17; (3) 14½ by 17; (4) 16 by 17; (5) 32¼ by 17; (7) (8) each 16 by 8; (9) 17 by 6¾ (10) 10 by 7¾.
page 155 note a Under the eastern of these were the remains of a hypocaust of the earlier building, which also here terminated southwards. [Original note.]
page 156 note a Block II. on plan, see Plate XXI.
page 156 note b Arohaeologia, liii. 570Google Scholar.
page 157 note a The red mosaic floor of this ante-room had under it the remains of another, of fine chalk tesseæ with a border of coarser red, and below this was an earlier floor of opus signinum.
page 157 note b The probable level of this was covered with a list of clay, derived no doubt from that which filled the half-timber work of the walls.
page 157 note c The mosaic floors of the north and south alleys were carried through the openings from the older corridor and joined the mosaic floor of that with very definite lines.
page 165 note a See reports for the years 1891 and 1899, Archaeologia, liii. 287, and lvii. 111Google Scholar.
page 165 note b See Rolleston, “On the Domestic Cat,” Scientific Papers, etc. 1882, ii. 503.
page 166 note a My Lyell has calculated that if the total area covered by the jawbones averaged 50 feet by 25 feet (= 1,250 square feet), and 9 square feet yielded seventy jaws representing thirty-five oxen; then 1,250 ÷ 9 = 139, and 139 × 35 = 4,865 oxen. Allowing for a deduction of forty per cent. for an average thickness, thia gives a possible total of 2,520 oxen represented by this deposit of jawbones.
page 167 note a Vol. viii. 227–246.