On the Pans Lane Pottery, Devizes. 845 
fully believed that young Dodwell grew up a sound man. This Dodwell of the 
ash tree died about five years ago; but, as he lived to be 89, his full term of life 
might be taken by some persons as a proof that the rupture became so far healed 
as not to seriously interfere with his health or prematurely cut short his years : 
but there is a much stronger proof of the efficacy of the cure in that the cleft ash 
sapling grew up into a vigorous tree. 
Perhaps some of your readers may know of other instances which have come 
under their personal knowledge.* 
E. P. E 
On the Pottery from Pans Hane, Devizes, 
Presented to the Museum by Mrs. Henry Cunnington, 
April, 1889. 
T the time of the formation of the Berks and Hants Ex- 
tension Railway, a deep cutting was made at Devizes, at 
that point where the line cuts through the old road to Wick, and 
__ which is locally known as “ Pans Lane.” In making the cutting, a 
very large quantity of fragments of British, and Romano-British, 
pottery was turned up, about 3ft. or 4ft. below the surface, and 
within a comparatively small space of ground ; and also a few other 
interesting antiquities. There were three or four small urns, one 
quite perfect, and of a peculiar shape, found with part of a human 
skeleton; several ancient coffin nails; animal bones and teeth; 
pieces of deer horns; an iron hatchet and knives; pieces of a 
mortarium, and several pieces of Samian ware; and rough British 
and finer black ware in such large quantities, as to give some warrant 
for the assumption, that it had once been the site of a potter’s work- 
shop. The microscopic examination of some of the fragments 
® See vol, xiv., p. 323, (Ep,) 
