SESSION 1898-99. xxxvii 



Inscribed stones. Fip:ure(l stones. Stone crosses. 



Castra (^walled). Earthen camps. 



Foundations of Roman buildings. 



Cemeteries (with modes of sepulchre). 



Burials, inliumatiou or cremation. Detailed contents of graves. 



Types of libulte and other ornaments. 



Coins. Implements and weapons, bronze, stone, or ii'on. 



Other anti(]uities. 



A list ot" place-names within the area, not modem. 



Special note should be made of British, Roman, and Saxon 

 interments occurring in the same field, and other signs of successive 

 occupation. 



The fifth branch — " historical evidence as to continuity of race " 

 — may also be easily undertaken. The information required and 

 the qiiestious to be answered are as follows : — 



Any historical events connected Avith the place, especially such 

 as relate to early settlements in it or more recent incursions of 

 alien immigration. 



The nature of the pursuits and occupations of the inhabitants. 



If any precautions have been taken by the people to keep 

 themselves to themselves ; if the old village tenures of land have 

 been preserved. 



Has any particular form of religious belief been maintained ? 



Are the people constitutionally averse to change ? 



What are the dates of the churches and monastic or other ancient 

 buildings or existing remains of former buildings? 



Do existing buildings stand on the sites of older ones? 



How far back can particular families or family names be traced ? 



Can any evidence of this be obtained from the manor rolls ; from 

 the parish registers ; from the tythingmen's returns ; from guild 

 or corporation records ? 



Are particular family names common ? 



In what county history or local history is the best description of 

 the place to be found ? 



Evidences of historical continuity of customs, dress, dwellings, 

 implements, etc., should be noted. 



In conclusion, I may state that I shall be pleased to receive any 

 commuuication on any of the questions here brought forward and 

 to furnish copies of such communications to the Secretary of the 

 Ethnographical Survey, keeping the original for presentation to our 

 Society so soon as a sufficient amount of information has been 

 received. It would be well for the rule of this Survey that 

 communications must be written on foolscap paper, on one side 

 only, with a margin of an inch on the left-hand side, to be 

 adhered to. 



2. " Ox SOME Changes along our Coasts." By the President. 



Mr. "Whitaker said that all persons were interested in the 

 scenery of our shores, whether living in counties bordering the 



