Wednesday, July 6th. 91 
Swinpon,” and a second paper, on “ CricKLADE,” by Mr. ANrHony 
_ Story Masxketyne, being read by the Rev. E, H. Gopparp in 
the absence of the authors. Some discussion took place on both 
_ these papers, Mr. N. Story Maskrryne dealing with the vexed 
question of the derivation of the name Cricklade.? 
After reading the papers the Rey. E. H. Gopparp drew the at- 
tention of the Members present—there was a very sparse attendance 
-—to the most remarkable objects in MR. A. D. PASSMORE’S 
_ COLLECTIONS, which had been admirably arranged with great 
care round the room. As in the case of Mr. J. W. Brooke’s 
collections, seen by the Society at their Meeting at Marlborough, 
_ Mr. Passmore’s collections of local antiquities, chiefly gathered 
within the last four years, show what can be done in a single 
locality by anyone who possesses the requisite amount of knowledge, 
patience, and perseverance, in saving and bringing together objects 
which would otherwise be lost or destroyed. The number of stone 
_ implements is large, and includes one or two small specimens of 
apparently Paleolithic flints from the gravels near Swindon—a 
couple of ground axes of a hard green stone, a very rough long 
flint chisel in its buck’s-horn handle—and a ground celt perforated 
at the butt end for suspension—as well as a curious rough axe- 
head of sarsen—and an object like a gigantic bead some 6 or 7 inches 
in diameter formed from a dark volcanic stone full of holes—all of 
which were found in the neighbourhood of Swindon. There were 
two or three cases filled with the Samian and other pottery, the 
painted wall plaster, and other remains from the Roman house at 
Weslecote, and others with the earlier fragments of pottery, &c., 
from the British settlement within the ramparts of Lyddington 
Castle. A nice series of Saxon remains, urns, spear-head, knives, 
‘necklaces of blue glass, and amber beads, are part of a large find 
of Saxon objects at Shefford, near Lambourne, Berks, the remainder 
of which are now in the British Museum. The pot discovered lately 
at Latton, whether it is of late Celtic or Romano-British date, is 
certainly of a very unusual and remarkable type. Mr. Passmore 
' See page 95. 
