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immediate neighbourhood, partially excavated hy THE REV. E. H. 

 ENGLEHEART, when living at Appleshaw. Close to APPLESHAW 

 itself, whicli was the next place passed, that gentleman had the 

 good luck to find the remarkable hoard of Koman pewter vessels, 

 now in the British Museum,^ one of which has roughly scratched 

 on its under side the Christian Chi liho. At Clanville, again, a 

 little further on, another villa was excavated by Mr. Engleheart, 

 and the party stopped to see some of the remaining spoils in the 

 little reading-room of the village. Here were " preserved " boxes 

 of painted plaster, and remains of all kinds piled confusedly together, 

 a fine fragment of a column and a most interesting inscription 

 — "the first inscription to Carinus, as yet found in Britain." This 

 valuable memorial lay on the floor in a corner with its face exposed 

 to the boots of the users of the room. Mr. Engleheart had kindly 

 sent photographs of the pewter vessels, and of parts of the excavated 

 villas, &c., wliich were exhibited to the Members, who were unani- 

 mously of opinion that Clanville Keading-Room is distinctly not a 

 fitting home for such valuable things as the inscription and column, 

 and that they ought without delay to find a safer resting-place 

 elsewhere. If they had been Wiltshire objects there would have 

 been no difficulty in pointing out a fitting place, but as they belong 

 to Hampshire the task is not so easy. 



The next stage was to PENTON MEWSEY, where a stoppage 

 was made for lunch at the village inn, after which the Church was 

 visited. The next items on the programme were Henry "White's 

 house, at Fyfield, and the Church, but the house seemed to present 

 no features of interest, the Church was passed by, and the carriages 

 made for KIMPTON CHURCH, which, like Ludgershall, has no 

 chancel arch. There is here a most puzzling and interesting 

 feature. At the end of tlie south transept a small window of late 

 fourteenth century date almost at the level of the ground, retaining 

 its original iron stanchions and apparently always glazed, opens 

 on a canopied recess, at the bottom of which a kind of trough 

 contained under a slab a stone box, a cube of about 6 inches. 

 Nothing whatever was found in the box, which is itself now in 



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