In 1845 William Wire notes in his diary: 'In Mr Bryant's garden (fully defined and shown on sketch plan)...a Roman tessellated pavement...tesserae one inch square. Several fragments of fresco house-wall...' (28/11/1845); then later '...pavement of greater extent than first supposed, it was covered with fragments of Roman roof tiles...most of the tiles were examined by me and none bore any letters...' (1/12/1845); then later '...made rough sketch of pavement...attempt made to take part of it up whole failed…its substructure is as follows...a bottom of clay and sand, the rubble consisting of septaria, then a concrete of pebbles and then another, after which a layer of mortar in which the tesserae were set. Mr Bryant gave orders for it to be broken up...' (5/12/1845); then '…more pavement discovered, buried again undisturbed...' (24/12/1845) <1> See EVT1589 for discoveries in 1846 & EVT145 for discoveries in 1847. <2><3>