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Show VAULT BUILT BY ROMANS. English Archaeologists Delighted Over Rare Find. An old Roman vault has been uncovered un-covered at Chiswlck, in England, by workmen who were preparing for tho foundations of a modern flat building. Now tho vault, with its red tiled floor and other marks of Roman days, lies open to tho twentieth century skies. The vault measures about fourteen or fifteen feet each way and appears to have been part of tho villa of some old Roman centurion. It is directly be-neu.ii be-neu.ii tho cellars of old Sutton court, a great place In tho time of Cromwell. Many pieces of valuable pottery of centuries ago havo been found, as well as what Is believed to havo been part of a subterranean passage between Sutton court and tho neighboring Chlswick house. It is Imagined that tho vault and :sago figured In tho plots and counterplots of tho stormy times of Cromwell when his third daughter, the vigorous and strong-minded strong-minded Maria, lived at Sutton court. o |