146 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 
occupied a foremost. position in the place, and as a kindly country — 
gentleman he won much respect. Obit. notices, NV. Wilts Herald, 
Nov. 18th; Devizes Gazette, Nov. 17th and Nov. 24th, 1898. 
William Hall, died Aug. 30th, 1898, aged 82. Buried at Christ Church, 
Swindon. Born at Longford, Ireland. He entered the service of the 
G.W.R. as clerk in 1840, at Swindon, and rose to be the chief accountant 
of the Locomotive Department. Married, 1846, a daughter of John, and — 
sister of James, father of Richard Jefferies. Obit. notice, V. Wilts 
Herald, Sept. 2nd, 1898. 
Aecent Ciltshire Mooks, Pamphlets, K Articles. 
Excavations in Cranborne Chase near Rushmore, 
on the borders of Dorset and Wilts, 1893— 
1896, By lLieutenant-General Pitt Rivers, 
D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S..A, Inspector of Ancient 
Monuments in Great Britain, &c. Vol. IV. 
Printed Privately. 1898. to. pp. ix. 30, and 242, 
with 84 full-page plates and plans, 33 cuts in the text, and 32 double- 
page relic tables, &e. 
This is the fourth volume of the records of the great works of ex- 
cavation which General Pitt Rivers has for years been carrying on, on 
the borders of Dorset and Wilts, and it yields to neither of its predecessors - 
in the admirable fulness with which every site excavated, and every object 
discovered thereon has been planned, figured, and described. The first 
30 pages contain the General’s address to the Archzological Institute at | 
Dorchester, in 1897, which has already been issued separately and noticed 
(vol. xxix., p. 345) in this Magazine. Then follows the description of 
the Excavation of the South Lodge Camp, Rushmore Park, the first 
part of which has already been printed in our Magazine (vol. xxvii, > 
pp. 206—222). It is here amplified by accurate descriptions and drawings 
of all the objects found during the excavation of the camp—a small a 
rectangular one—which the Generdl has proved to have been of the Bronze | 
Age. There is also added a note and illustration of a pit on the slope of — 
the hill near the camp, in which portions of a skeleton were found, and — 
a chipped flint celt. The General regards the pit as having been ex- — 
cavated for a dwelling in the Bronze Age, and subsequently filled up— — 
