440 Recent Wiltshire BooAs, Pamphlets, Articles, &c. 



of the Giant and Hob Nob, belonging to the Company of Tailors of 

 Salisbury, now preserved in the Museum, and the use which was made 

 of such figures in old days. 



"Old Plate in the Tudor Exhibition," from the Reliquary, Vol. IV., 

 New Series, is a short paper on a subject on which the author was an 

 acknowledged authority ; as is also " Notes on the EcclesiasticalExhibition 

 at Eome, 1870," reprinted from the Athenceum of June 11th and 18th of 

 that year. Two notes on " Seal of the Deanery of Shaftesbury," and 

 " Seals of Peculiars in the County of Dorset," are reprinted from 

 Proceedmgs of the Society of Antiquaries, 20th May, 1886, and 12th June, 

 1890, respectively. The volume ends with extracts from reviews of 

 " Church Plate of the County of Dorset," and a reprint of the long review 

 of "The Church Plate of Wilts" which appeared in the Salislury 

 Journal of March 26th, 1892, after its author's death. 



The illustrations include : — Effigy of John Coffer from his Brass at 

 Wilton; Wilton Seals; Medal and Autograph of William Herbert; 

 Wilton House in its Original State, from Sketch in the Pembroke terrier ; 

 Figures of Anne, 1st wife of Sir Will. Herbert, and her daughter, from 

 glass in Wilton Church ; Seal of Deanery of Shaftesbury ; and Cucking 

 Stool. 



Prehistoric Man on the Downs. By a. j. Hubbard, m.d., 



and George Hubbard, F.S.A. Corn kill 3Iagazine, May, 1906, pp. 

 608—622. 



This is a curious paper. The authors divide the Neolithic Age into 

 two periods, the " Hill period," when men lived on the hills, and were 

 earth woi'kers, and the later "Plain period," when men lived on the 

 " plains " and were " stone workers," i.e., builders of megalithic structures 

 like Stonehenge and Avebury. They assume, therefore, that the "Hill 

 Forts," or camps, are much earlier than either Stonehenge or Avebury. 

 " The days of the Hill settlements — of the terror of the plains — must be 

 far away from the days when man worshipped on the levels of Avebury." 

 They are uncertain whether the tumuli and barrows ought to be referred 

 to the "Hill period" or the " Plain period," probably the "barrows " 

 belong to the former, and the " tumuli" to the latter. Now for all this 

 speculation there is not a shadow of foundation — there is no evidence to 

 show that the camps are earlier than the stone circles, and what the 

 authors mean by differentiating " barrows " from " tumuli " is not easy 

 to say. But the principal object of the article is to account for the 

 terraces often found at the base of the steep sides of the downs, several 

 one above the other, the "lynchets" in fact. They say that these 

 terraces are not Neolithic cultivation areas, but are plainly "defences" 

 against a foe who used no projectiles, and who lived in the plains, in 

 other words, against the wolf. As an example they take the settlement 

 on the top of what they call " St. Martinsell Hill," near Marlborough, 

 of which a plan is given. " At the top of the hill a cattle camp would 

 therefore be constructed to receive the herds in the evening, and at 

 its base the great wolf platforms would be set in a position where a 



