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Masonic Temple, B.C. 1500.” “The Doctor, we understand,” says the 
Southampton Observer, “is a veteran and enthusiastic Freemason, and 
considers that the key to ancient Masonry which had been lost for so 
many centuries, has veritably been discovered by himself in England’s 
greatest archeological gem ; the wonder and mystery of past ages—Stone- 
henge.” 
Pre-Roman Interment at Tilshead. As a man named Rolfe Kyte was, 
in March, 1897, enlarging a pit near the village of Tilshead, he struck his 
pick into a human skull, and on trying to remove the earth and stones 
brought up the leg bones. I visited the place soon after the discovery of 
the skeleton, and found that it had lain in a pit about lft. 6in. deep by 
2ft. Gin. long and lft. 6in. wide. I could find no trace of pottery or worked 
flints or anything else accompanying the interment, which, from what the 
finder told me, appears to have been in the contracted posture—the legs 
drawn up over the body, and an arm across it, the whole covered with very 
large flints. The skull and the bones were small, and the sutures of the 
former had come apart. 
C. V. Gopparp. 
Bronze Torques from the Duke Collection, In the note on the sale of 
the Duke Collection of Antiquities, Wilts Arch. Mag., vol. xxviii., p. 261, 
the larger of the bronze torques then sold was erroneously said to have been 
bought by “Mr. Graves.” In reality both of the torques were purchased 
‘ by Gen. Pitt-Rivers. 
Romano-British Settlement on Cold Kitchen Hill. Mr. W. Stratton 
has presented to the Museum two or three more objects obtained from the 
surface of the tumulus, or rubbish-heap (?), on Cold Kitchen Hill, found 
during 1896. They include an extremely perfect bronze Roman fibula with 
hinged pin, a pair of bronze toilet tweezers, and a portion of a light iron 
chain of seven or eight links—the links being of figure-of-eight shape. At 
the same time a bronze coin of Crispus, of a common type, was found,” 
showing that the site was inhabited about A.D. 325. 
Curious Deed at Avebury. The document, a copy of which follows, speaks 
for itself. It is lodged in our parish chest, where it may have been originally 
placed for safety. It is engrossed on thick Government paper, and bears 
three sixpenny stamps. The same geal is impressed against each signature. 
It is embossed with the figure of a lion on a coronet. It will be observed 
that there is a blank left for the first name of this Farmers’ federation. 
There is no signature, too, against the first seal. It is impossible to say who 
was intended to be named here, or why—probably at the last moment—he 
held back. May he have been the one employer of labour whose leniency 
in the past had given cause for the federation P And was it to bring him 
to their standard of a master’s duty that the others suggested this mutual 
obligation? Anyhow the document is curious and deserves to be recorded. 
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