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mostly of a commou kind, with much of the smother-kiln, black variety, also 

 some imitation Samian. Oyster shells were abundant (none of the "real 

 natives ") and a few shells of Mytilas edulis, so common on our coasts. These 

 arc of interest Have they been before found in connection with Romano- 

 British antiquities P There were teeth and bones in abundance of the ordinary 

 domestic auimals, horse, ox, sheep, hog, &c. In one of the holes, at a depth of 

 2Aft., there was a level space paved with stone tiles, mostly of oolitic rock. 



This spot would doubtless yield abundant remains of the ancient inhabitants, 

 if carefully and thoroughly examined. 



W. CUHNINGTON. 



MS. Account of Excavations in Wilts. 



May 10th, 1894. " The President, Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, exhibited 

 and presented [to the Library of the Society of Antiquaries, London] William 

 Cunnington's account of the excavations he made for Sir Richard Colt Hoare iu 

 the Barrows of Wiltshire, with notes by Sir E. C. Hoare and others, in five folio 

 volumes in manuscript, from the Stourhead Library." — From Proceedings Soc. 

 Ant. Land., 2nQ Series, vol. xv.. No. II. 



Perambulation of Part of the Great Park of Fasterne, 

 IN the Parish of Wootton Bassett, in May, 1602. 



(Copied from the original document in the Wilts Museum, at Devizes, and printed 

 in Swindon Advertiser, June 5th, 1886.) 



" A noot [note] of the perambulation on Braden's syed on Mondaye, the 18th 

 of Maye, 1602, going and vewing the boundes and meres deviding the mannors 

 of Wotton and Brynkwortho of the west syed, going directlye by the bounds 

 and meares as the moost eldest and auncient men hath knowen and hard [heard] 

 tyme aught of mynde, and how it was used sythens [since] and befoure the great 

 park was dysparked, as also what their foore-fathers bathe tould them v^hen 

 they were children going the perambulation, whoes names are underwritten with 

 their agges : — 



John Bathe 80 yeares Thomas Phelps 76 yeares 



Richard Baithe 80 Thomas Eobyns 100 



John Gault 80 Thomas Baethe 70 



William Henlye 76 Richard lies 60 



Thomas Haskyns 66 William Webb 56 



Christr. Witnan 77 John Shurmur 60 



Imprimis, the first daye going the perambulation from Wotton to ^ Broadwayes 



' " Broadways gaat " stood where the cottages belonging to Sir H. B. Meux, 

 Bart., are built in Whitehill Lane ; the road at this place greatly widens down to 

 Hooker's Gate. " Woak " or " Oak-Hay " means an enclosure of oaks. The 

 fields are now called " Hookers," corrupted, no doubt, from " Oak-Hay." This 

 was the place where " the Duke had his way forthe," but whether it was intended 



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