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The Lesser Horseshoe Bat, Lhinolophus hipposideros. 
On capturing a bat which had come into the house here (Clyffe Pypard) 
one night this autumn (1903), I found that it belonged to a species that 
was quite unknown to me—the “‘ Lesser Horseshoe Bat,” distinguished 
with its congener, the ‘‘ Greater Horseshoe Bat,” by the soft fluffiness 
of its fur and by the extraordinary leaf-like appendage on its nose. Mr. 
Meyrick, of Marlborough College, tells me that the College Natural 
History Society have no record of its occurrence. T find it stated, how- 
ever, in Bell’s British Quadrupeds, 1837, that ‘‘it was first taken by 
Montagu in Wiltshire in a hollow over a baker’s oven, having entered 
the place through a small fissure, and afterwards in a dark old shed 
surrounded by high trees, at Lackham, in the same county.” 
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Skeletons of Man and Horse at Charnage. On August 
16th, 1903, Mr. A. R. White, of Charnage, Mere, wrote :—‘‘ Within the 
last few days the men in quarrying flint on my down have Gome across 
first the skeleton of what appears to be a horse and then no doubt that 
of a human being. The teeth of the latter are well preserved, but the 
other bones are brittle, They were found in the trackway leading from 
Charnage Gorge to the bottom end of Well Bottom, about half way, I 
should think about 3ft. deep, on the top of the chalk.” In answer to a 
letter asking for further particulars of the discovery, and in particular 
whether any relics of any kind were found with the bones, Mr. White 
wrote “I am afraid I cannot give much more information respecting 
the finding of the skeletons of horse and man on my down. I did not 
hear of the discovery until after the whole of the bones had been taken 
out, and I fear there was no real search made. There was no sign of 
any mound, in fact it was right in a trackway, which no doubt formerly 
was in constant use. From what I can gather from the quarrymen the 
human bones were found in a sitting posture.” 
Roman Coins at Great Cheverell. The following note 
appears in the register of the Parish Church at Great Cheverell :—‘‘ A 
parcel (about a gallon) of Roman copper coynes of y* Emperors fro 
Gordianus to Tacitus was found in y° ffield called ye Sand by E* Hobbs 
ffebr 17 1695.” 
H. E. Mepvicorv. 
Roman Coins at Atworth, Nine Roman small brass coins 
found in a field at Atworth in 1902 have come into the possession of 
Mr. E. C. Davey, of Bath, who has kindly given the following particulars. 
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