104 ArcTitjRological Notes. 



Greek Coin of Antinous. 

 The large brass Greek coin of Antinous, the favourite of Hadrian, now presented 

 to the Museum by Mr. H. N. Goddard, was found many years ago by a labourer 

 whilst turnip-hoeing at Bupton, in the parish of Clyffe Pypard, and was brought 

 by him to Mr. Goddard. This coin is rare. 



Seal of Wootton Bassett. 

 The seals which belonged to the former Corporation of Wootton Bassett had 

 disappeared for many years, and all attempts to recover them had proved fruitless 

 until a month or two ago, when at the sale of the effects of an old gentleman 

 who had long lived in the High Street of that ancient borough, an ivory-handled 

 steel-headed seal turned up among a lot of " sundries," which proved to be one 

 of the long lost seals of the borough. It bears the arms of Wootton Bassett : 

 a chevron between three lozenges, surrounded by the inscription : " Minor 

 sigillum Wootton Bassett als Wootton Vetus." It is also inscribed round the 

 neck : " Ex dono Prenobil. L. Comitis Rochester 1682." It was purchased by 

 Mr. E. C. Trepplin with the intention of placing it with other objects of interest 

 connected with the town in the picturesquely-restored Town Hall. 



Stone Circle near Swindon. 

 Mr. A. D. Passmore, of Swindon, has lately called attention to what appears 

 to be the remains of a hitherto unnoticed circle of stones at Day House Farm, at 

 Coate, about two miles from Swindon. The stones themselves are not large, but 

 the circle when complete must have been of considerable dimensions. The Editor 

 hopes that a full account of this circle may be printed in the next number of 

 the Magazine. 



Sculptures in the South Porch of Malmesbury Abbey. 



In vol. xvi. of the Transactions of the Sristol and Gloucestershire Archa- 

 ological Society is printed a paper by Mrs. Bagnall-Oakeley on these well-known 

 groups of sculpture, in which she argues that they are of much earlier date than 

 that (the early thirteenth century) commonly ascribed to them. From their 

 style, the character of the key carried by St. Peter, and other features, the writer 

 contends that they belong to the earlier Saxon Church built by Athelstan in 937, 

 which preceded the present Norman building. 



Excavations at Marlborough College. 

 The Report of the Marlborough College Natural History Society for 1892 

 contains an account of recent excavations during building operations on the site 

 of the ancient castle moat, with illustrations of the principal objects discovered, 

 keys, horseshoes, iron arrow-heads, ring, pin, &c. 



Flint Implements. 

 In the same report is an account by Mr. J. W. Brooke of the many localities 

 in the neighbourhood of Marlborough where he has found flint implements in 

 such large numbers, and of the different classes of implements found on the 

 several sites on which he supposes they were originally manufactured. Mr. 

 Brooke has been extraordinarily successful in the search for flints, having 

 acquired during the last five years no less than five thousand four hundred and 

 twenty specimens from the Marlborough neighbourhood alone. 



