A HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE produced no result, and as no smaller objects — coins, potsherds, and the like — seem to have been discovered anywhere in the vicinity, I am doubtful how to class the site.' (17) Nether Heyford. Here a villa was found in 1699 in the Horestone or Horse- stone meadow. The principal discovery was part of a mosaic showing an elaborate geometrical design in red, white, blue and yellow, in pattern not unlike the southern- most mosaic at Wel- don, but fringed in addition with a guil- loche border (fig. 24). Some other rooms Fig. 24. Mosaic found at Nether Heyford in 1699 (Morton, pi. xiv.). were observed to have white plaster floors coloured along the sides with straight stripes of red, yellow and green ; and, as usual, roofing slates and tiles, painted wall plaster and Samian and other potsherds » Morton, p. 521 (hence Bridges, i. 42 ; Gough, Add. to Camden, ii. 275); B.iker, i. 339; information from Mr. T. J. George. 196
