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RECENT ROMAN DISCOVERIES:
Comparative Table—(continued).
| Tower on west and south corners discovered so far; their walls, 3 feet thick; chambers, 10 feet by 11 feet. | Towers: four detached corner towers; near south angle, an oven. | Towers: only slight remains of foundations outside south-west angles; two ovens. |
| Granary and four other buildings in the centre. | Prætorium and complex of buildings adjoining: prætorium (inner wall, 2 feet; outer wall, 3 feet), 25 feet square, three rooms excavated partially, the middle one has its floor of broken bricks and the other two of flagstones; the tile floor of granary, of tiles 8, 9, and 10 inches square, 2 inches thick; been repaired with roofing tile. | Site: not excavated yet. |
| Shape, rectangular, rounded; 6¼ acres, walls, 600 feet by 427 feet. | Same; walls, 122 yards by 112 yards=3⅛ acres; midway between the P. P. Dextra and the Decumana entrances is the Corn Mill; the floor of a workshop to the right of the road from the Decumana to the Prætorium. | 424 feet by 420 feet=4 acres; trapezoid |
| Pottery, chiefly second century. | Same; also fragments of first century. | Local, intermixed with Samian of the first and second centuries. |
| Coins: earliest, under north-west wall, Nerva (96–98); first inscription, 161 (Sixth Legion). Sacked probably 367 by the Picts. Latest coin, 364. | Coins from Domitian (81–96), Hadrian (117–138). | Coins: earliest, consular; latest, Constantine the Great (324–336). |
