thickness — fifteen feet — and extending over a large area. Your 

 Council was communicated with, and a sub-committee was at once 

 appointed to watch any work that might be done. The Rev. Dr. 

 Cox visited the excavations, and afterwards consulted with Mr. 

 St. John Hope, the Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries, and 

 himself an experienced "digger," with the result that every 

 enquiry and comparison went to prove the great value and 

 historical importance of the excavations begun at Duffield. A 

 strong representative local committee, including some six members 

 of your Council, was formed, and an appeal for funds to carry on 

 the work of excavation was put out. The owner of the property, 

 Mr. Harvey, most willingly allowed the work of excavation to be 

 continued, and Mr. Bland, of Duffield, indefatigably superintended 

 everything. The result has been the laying bare of the founda- 

 tions of the walls of a Norman rectangular keep larger than any 

 known example, save the Tower of London, the discovery of a 

 well more than eighty feet deep, and the unearthing of "finds " so 

 numerous, so varied in character, and in the period of history to 

 which they belong, as to defy description. Stone implements, 

 pottery, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, and Norman, knives with buck-horn 

 handles, a spindle-whirl, a Norman spur, part of an Anglo-Saxon 

 cruciform bronze brooch, bones of the dog, deer, and calf, 

 masses of hewn stone, a huge oak beam, and the well bucket, 

 have all been brought to light, after a six hundred years' burial. 

 The work of excavation has ceased for the present, and the site 

 has been enclosed with a strong iron railing. The committee 

 have become tenants of the site, and every facility is afforded to 

 archaeologists who may wish to inspect the keep or the various 

 relics which have been found. The sincere thanks of this Society, 

 and of all lovers of archaeology, are due to those who have 

 interested themselves so strongly and worked so hard throughout 

 the whole of this undertaking. If there were more men in the 

 world as willing to oblige as Mr. Harvey, and as willing to take 

 up hard work as Mr. Bland, archaeological research would be very 

 much easier to carry out than it is at present. The work done 

 at Duffield has been done well, and the result is an invaluable 



