XXVIII. An account of some Roman Antiquities discovered at Comb end farm, near Cirencester, Gloucestershire, by Samuel Lysons, Esq. F.A.S.

Extract

In the year 1779 some labourers digging for stone in a field called Stockwoods, at Comb end-farm, belonging to Samuel Bowyer, Esq. in the parish of Colesbourn In Gloucestershire, discovered the remains of a very considerable building at a small depth below the surface of the earth, which on a further investigation appeared clearly, from the remains of tessellated pavements which were found in several places, to have been a Roman house. The floor of one room was preserved quite entire, the walls remaining in many places near three feet in heighth. Its dimensions were fifty-fix feet in length and fourteen in breadth (see pl. XX. fig. 1.) The entrance to it was by a stone-step on the sound side. Immediately above this pavement were found many of the slates with which the roof had been covered: they were of a rhomboidal form, and several of them had the nails with which they had been fastened remaining in them.