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will explain the position of this excavation, which was rudely 
circular in form, its dimensions being about 4 feet in depth by 
about 4 feet in diameter. Its sides were not walled round in any 
way, but there was no difficulty in distinguishing it from the 
adjoining strata in which it had been excavated. It will be 
observed that it had only been carried down to the bottom of the 
Liassic débris, the bottom of the hole resting on the solid beds of 
the Lias. It is greatly to be regretted that the quarrymen did 
not cease operations as soon as they met with these remains, and 
that the writer’s attention was not called to them at once, but they 
probably did not recognise the importance of their discovery until 
some of the more striking objects were met with, so that some 
of the contents were seriously damaged and others probably lost. 
Sufficient, however, was preserved to show that the excavation 
and subsequent infilling were of a very ancient character, the 
contents of which the writer will now endeavour to describe. 
Ancient Quern.—Prominent amongst the contents of the pit 
which has been described is the Quern now exhibited, which was 
found associated with the principal finds within a few inches of 
the bottom of the pit. It will be seen that only the upper half of 
the Quern has been found, diligent search having failed to 
discover the other half, but its place has been supplied by an 
approximate model in wood, based on examples which are to be 
seen in the museum at Glastonbury, where nearly 20 Querns, or 
parts of Querns, were found in the ancient British village 
discovered by Mr. Arthur Bulleid, to whom, and his father, the 
writer is indebted for much useful information on the subject. 
In the present instance the portion of the Quern found is a good 
example of its kind, comparing favourably with the specimens in 
Bath and Glastonbury, from which it differs in several respects to 
which attention will now be drawn, 
One of these distinctions is in the mode by which the handle 
was attached to the stone, which in most of the Querns the writer 
has seen was by means of a hole bored in an oblique direction in 

