EDITORIAL NOTES. ,« 



The Pursglove Brass at Tideswell.-To the Athenaum of 

 October 1 2th last Dr. Cox contributed an account of the 

 recovery by the Rev. J. M. J. Fletcher, Vicar of Tideswell, 

 of a sn.a! bras.s plate inscribed to the memory- of Lawrence 

 Brierley, Vicar of Tideswell i66.-x68o. It is, however a 

 pahmpsest, for upon the back are fragments of the origi'nal 

 epitaph formerly placed below the well-known brass to Bishop 

 Pursglove in Tideswell Church, but believed by Dr Cox to 

 have been removed in 1587-9, "when fierce action was taken 

 against the recusants, who were so strong a body in North 

 Derbyshire. The mutilation and re-use of monumental brasses 

 would seem to have been by no means infrequent, for the writer 

 has two similar examples, one of the fifteenth and the other 

 o the eighteenth century. The Pursglove fragment is worthy 

 of Illustration in this Journal, and perhaps Dr. O.x will favour 

 us with a paper upon it. 



Excavations at Arbor Low.-With the object of ascer- 

 taining the age of stone circles, the British Association appointed 

 a Committee, consisting of Dr. J. G. Garson (Chairman), Mr 

 H. Balfour (Secretary), Sir John Evans, Professors Boyd 

 Dawkins and R. Meldola, Dr. R. Munro, and Messrs. C H 

 Read and A. L. Lewis. The Committee, after careful coiv . 

 s.deration, selected Arbor Low as the most suitable for their 

 exploration and after obtaining the necessary sanction of the 

 Duke of Rutland and the First Commissioner of Works 

 accepted the honorary services of Mr. H. St. George Gray to' 

 conduct sectional excavation in the ancient monument A 

 geometrical plan of the whole was first prepared, detailing,' with 

 the nicest accuracy, the position, dimensions, and form of every 

 stone visible upon the surface and the contours of the earth 

 works. Then certain sections were excavated through the 

 fosse and in the plateau, which resulted in the discoveries of 

 various flint implements and of one almost perfect, and several 

 ■mperfect, human skeletons, but neither Roman vestiges nor 

 pottery were disclosed. It is, however, intended to continue 

 the exploration, and as the subject is one of momentous interest 



