X. Account of the traces of a Roman Villa discovered, A. D. 1840, at Gayton, near Northampton, communicated in a Letter from the Very Reverend George Butler, D.D., Dean of Peterborough, F.S.A., to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary

In a field, called “the Warren,” (part of the property of Sir Joseph Hawley, Bart, of Leybourne Grange, in the co. of Kent,) situated at the southern boundary of the parish of Gayton, and bordering upon the parish of Blisworth, the plough had oft-times been impeded by large stones, evidencing the traces of some old building. In the month of February 1840, the occupier of the field, desirous of removing this obstacle to his agriculture, and wanting stones for the under-draining of the land in various parts of his farm, employed labourers to dig up a portion of these foundations. During the progress of the work were discovered sundry Roman coins, a silver fibula, many fragments of Roman tiles and pottery, (some of the latter plain, some tastefully figured,) and a small bronze statue of Cupid in a dancing attitude, formerly (as it should seem) holding a wreath, suspended between his two hands, as supplied in the annexed sketch

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