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Arccovds of finds not mentioned elsetubere. 
“HE EDITOR would be greatly obliged if Members and 
others in all parts of the county would kindly send him 
shia. concise, and accurate notes of any finds, archeological or 
geological, that may come under their notice, in order that they 
may be printed from time to time in the Magazine. 
Finps Rerortep By Mr. J. W. Brooxez, Local Secretary, 
Marlborough. 
British-midden on the banks of the Kennet, Mariborough. 
While a gang of men were digging foundations for a new gasometer at the 
Marlborough Gas Works, in May, 1892, they brought to light a quantity of 
bones, &c. I was casually informed of the find, and, with the assistance of the 
manager, made the following discovery. 
The excavations were situated about 45ft. from the present river, on ground 
about 6ft. above its bed; during these excavations the bed of a small extinct 
circuitous stream was disclosed, which was formed when the river was about 
Aft. 6in. above its preseut level. 
The line of the stream was clearly marked as follows :—2ft. 3in. of ordinary 
vegetable soil, 9in. of bluish clay, 6in. of peat, and, lastly, a bed of washed gravel 
and alluvial deposit. In digging through this bed, it was found to be intermixed 
with bones, &e. I collected pieces of sun-baked British ware, shells of the edible 
mussel (I. edulis), horns of sheep and Celtic short-horned oxen (extinct), bones 
of the common hog (Sus scrofa domesticus), the turf hog (Sus palustris) 
(extinct), the horse, goat, small hunting dog, and hare; most of which, being 
gregarious, probably roamed over and were obtained from the neighbouring 
forest. All the bones are very dark in golour, from close contact with the peat ; 
some showed signs of having been notched by a blunt instrument, for the purpose 
of obtaining the marrow. I could not find any trace of fire, nor could I find 
any human bones. 
It seems probable that this was a kitchen midden of early Neolithic date, 
contemporaneous with the occupation at Pantawick; the pottery showing a 
marked resemblance. 
Find of a British Skeleton on Windmill Hill, Avebury. 
On October 9th, 1891, while in Avebury I was informed that one of Mr. 
Henry Brown’s teams had ploughed up some bones, which my informant and 
his mates thought, from their size, to be those of a cow. I made further 
