284 Notes on the Opening of a Tumulus on 



archaeological activity, and the work would require both more 

 money and more experience on the part of the excavators than 

 seems likely to be forthcoming- just now. 



The whole of the objects found, together with representative 

 specimens of the animal bones and also of all the different kinds of 

 pottery, carefully labelled so as to be available for reference, have, 

 by the kindness of Mr. Stratton, been placed in the Museum ; as 

 has also a bronze socketed looped celt, with three lines in relief on 

 the blade, which was picked up by himself on the surface of one of 

 the old common fields of the parish of Kingston Deverill, towards 

 Bradley, after an unusually deep ploughing by steam about the 

 year 1871. It weighs 5oz., and measures 3fin. in length, and l|in. 

 across the broadest part of the blade. 



Bronze Celt from Kingston Deverill. (Two-thirds actual size.) 



List of Objects Found. 



Coins. 



tird brass of Valens, A.D. 364 — 378. Very common. 



Inscription obliterated. 

 1 Billon coin of Carausius, A.D. 287—293. The head on 



this coin is clear, but the inscription is defaced. Mr. 



J. W. Brooke, of Marlborough, reads it : imp. caravsivs 



AVG. The rev. has a figure holding cornucopia and 



scales, but the inscription is illegible. Mr. Brooke 



states that this coin is a rare one. 

 3rd brass coin of Constantino, struck at Alexandria, the 



ohv. reading constan - tinopolis. It is a common type. 



* This coin is now in the collection of Mr. T. H. Bakei', of Mere Down.. 



