remarkable use of timber in the construction of the rampart and berm, 

 especially at the angles, where ballista and other heavy engines of war 

 may have been placed. The shallow outer trenches seem to have been 

 designed not so much as, in themselves, obstacles to hinder attack ot 

 the fortress as to provide cover for sharpened stakes of hard wood. 

 Many of these have been discovered. 



CoRBRiDGE-ON-TvNE. — Extensive and systematic excavations have 

 been made on the site of the Roman city of Corstopitum, revealing 

 part of the plan of the town and unearthing interesting remains. The 

 exploration has been conducted by the Northumberland County 

 History Committee, under the supervision of Dr. Haverfield, Mr. C. L. 

 Woolley and Mr. R. H. Forster. 



Essex Red-hills. — A survey and excavations of several examples 

 in the parish of Langenhoe were conducted in the autumn of 1906, 

 resulting in the discovery of relics belonging to the late Celtic period. 

 (See Bibliography.) 



FoRGLEN, BanfI'SHIRE. — Mr. H. St. George Gray last year 

 excavated the tumulus known as Rounie Law. A paper descriptive of 

 the result will appear in the forthcoming volume of the Proceedings of 

 the Soc. of Ants, of Scodand. 



Glastoni;ury.- — The final series of excavations of the Lake Village 

 occupied seven weeks under the supervision of Mr. A. Bulleid and 

 Mr. H. it. G. Gray. 



Gkims'ion, Norfolk. — The Norfolk and Norwich Arch. Soc. has 

 excavated the site of a Roman Villa under the advice of Mr. H. 

 Laver, F.S.A. 



Kenderckurch, Herefordshire.— Some excavation of the 

 mound on Little Howton Farm was carried on by Mr. T. G. Barnett 

 in August, 1906, and will probably be continued this year. 



Lansdown, B.\th. — Further explorations of the site occupied by 

 a Romano-British settlement have been conducted by Mr. T. S. Bush 

 and others. 



London. — In the course of excavation for the new Post Office 

 buildings on the site of Christ's Hospital, portions of the wall of London 

 have been found and many relics appertaining to Roman and later 

 times were discovered. Numerous other excavations have yielded 



