THE requirements of agriculture have rendered it necessary to cover up again all the excavations to the north of the Old Wall, and the walls of the great public building at the corner of the two streets can no longer be seen by the visitor. A piece of ground, however, immediately to the south of the Old Wall has been taken by the Excavation Committee at Shrewsbury upon a rent, and in this piece of ground the excavations are now carried on. It forms a parallelogram, 319 feet long, by 279 feet wide, containing an area of exactly two acres, including the Old Wall at its northern edge. This piece of ground has been strongly fenced round with hurdles, and it is entered by a gate from the Watling Street Road. By the liberality of the Excavation Committee the public are admitted to this inclosure freely, and it is to be hoped that the visitors will acknowledge this liberality by carefully abstaining from committing any injury on the Roman remains, or by walking upon or entering into the parts in the course of excavation. The plan annexed (_pl._ 5) of the excavations now in progress will enable me to explain them to the visitor. The darkly-shaded mass _a a_ represents the Old Wall, or portion of Roman masonry standing above ground; to the north of which lay the extensive building formed by the walls _b b_, _c c_, _d d_, running parallel to the Old Wall. The wall _d d_, bordered upon a wide street. To the east of these walls lay an inclosure, e, perhaps a court-yard, and a large space, _f_, which has been conjectured to have been a garden, but which has been very imperfectly explored. All these remains have been explained above; they have been buried again, and the ground is now covered with crops. The Old Wall, which stands just within the north-eastern corner of the space separated from the rest of the field by a fence of hurdles, now forms the northern boundary of the excavations.