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fragments of the font have now been pieced together again, the leger 

 stones have been disinterred, and re-laid in the floor, and the brass in- 

 scription has been placed on the wall. It is seldom, indeed, that the 

 misdeeds of the Church " restorers " of the middle of the nineteenth 

 century can be so happily undone as they have been in this case. See 

 Wilts County Mirror, Dec.lSth, 1907 ; Salisbury Journal,I)ec. 14th,1907. 



Dagger at North Wraxall. Whilst digging the foundations of 

 "Fairfield," at North Wraxall, a house built in 1907 for Mr. Charles 

 Frankcom, the workmen found a dagger, which, judging from the 

 weapons illustrated in Meyrick, Hewitt, and Demmin, appears to be of 

 about the the date of Hen. VIII. The blade has a strong mid rib, the 

 quillons are curved downwards towards the point of the dagger, and there 

 are round slightly ornamental knobs for the pommel and at each end of 

 the quillons. The dagger remains in the possession of Mr. Frankcom. 

 A precisely similar dagger is in the collection of Mr. J. W. Brooke, of 

 Marlborough, from the Aldbourne neighbourhood. Ed. H. Goddard. 



The Great Snowstorm of April 25, 1908. a snowstorm of quite 



unprecedented severity for the time of year prevailed over a wide strip 

 of central England from Southampton to Oxford, Birmingham, and 

 the north, whilst to the east and west of this strip no snow at all fell. In 

 London on the one hand and at Gillingham on the other there was none, 

 whereas in Berks, Hants, and Wilts, the depth varied from lin. or 2in. 

 to something over 18in. on the level. It was quite this depth at Tile- 

 hurst on the Great Western line, where the trains managed to keep run- 

 ning although from two to three hours late. In the neighbourhood of 

 Southampton and Oxford it is said to have been deeper still. The depths 

 on the level in Wiltshire varied greatly, at Tisbury there was very little 

 snow, at Salisbury about 1ft. or 13in., at Marlborough 14in., at Market 

 Lavington 6in., and at Clyffe Pypard about Sin. or 9in. Except where it 

 had drifted on the downs it had almost entirely disappeared by the evening 

 of the 26th. Five days later, on May 1st and 2nd, the heat was equally 

 unprecedented, the thermometer in London rising to 74 and 75 in the 

 shade and in Wiltshire to 71. See Devizes Gazette, April 30th, 1908. 



Broad Chalke. a cross socket, 2ft. square, and 13in. deep, the upper 

 portion of which is octagonal, containing a square sunk socket for a 

 shaft, lOin. square, and 5|in. deep, set lozenge-wise, has lately been found 

 amongst rubbish in the garden of Knighton Manor, Broad Chalke, and 

 has been set upon a brick base on the lawn as a garden ornament. It 

 is in good preservation, and has very boldly cut convex broaches at the 

 angles. I am indebted to Mr. M. Jeans, of Milton, for information and 

 photos of this discovery. — Ed. H. Goddard. 



TefTOUt EwyaS. During the cutting through from quarry to road — 

 years ago — several skeletons ('? seven) were found. 



