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 ROMANO-BRITISH NORFOLK Fig 5. Building Outside the Walls of Caister. to substitute for the wrongly imagined shrine. Only the broken tiles and bricks and pottery which are scattered over the whole area — most abundantly, perhaps, in its west- ern portion — testify to definite Romano-British habitation of some kind. Two structures have, how- ever, been discovered in the immediate neighbourhood. In 1846 Sir John Boileau excavated the foundations of a small rec- tangular building, distant two or three hundred yards from the north-east corner of the ram- parts (fig. 5). It was found to be a plain rectangular structure, measuring internally 24 by 30 feet : its walls were of flint, faced on both sides with flint, and pierced with three apertures placed symmetrically in each of the longer sides. Wall plaster, flooring ' tesseras ' of brick, fragments of Samian and other earthenware, bones of men and animals, tiles, one or two coins and a rude silver ring, were discovered in or near the building. Signs of an ancient road were noticed close by, and in 1849 a terra-cotta head of Diana (?) was found near at hand (fig. 6). The building seems to have been wholly isolated from any other structure ; its ex- cavators suggested that it may perhaps have been a tomb. The other structure found outside the ramparts is a kiln, detected in 1822 on a hill about a quarter of a mile to the north-west, on the west side of the river. When found, it is said to have contained urns of undoubtedly Roman character, just as they were actually placed for burning Fig 6. Terra-cotta Fragment. (fig- j)- Other UmS WerC nOticcd near, but it seems uncertain whether they were Roman.' Numerous finds of small objects have been made in and near the and near it, mostly in possession of Sir F. Boileau, are enumerated by Mr. Fox, Jrchaological Journal, xlvi. 356. For the kiln see Layton in Archieohgia, xxii. 412 (with illustrations) ; Norfolk Archaologj, vi. 155 ; Dawson Turner's Papers, British Museum Add]. MS. 23027, p. 91. The sites are marked in the larger Ordnance Maps — whether correctly, I do not know. For the terra-cotta head see Archieo- lo^cal Journal, vi. 180 (if the same object), x. 274 ; Norfolk Archtsohgy, iv. 232 ; both with plates : it is now in Norwich Museum. 291
 * For the rectangular structure see Archieological Journal, iv. 72 (with plan) : the objects found in