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‘“* Ancient Interments at Newton St. Loe, near Bath.” 
By J. P. E. Fatconer. 
(Read February roth, 1904.) 
In September, 1869, some men were quarrying road metal in 
a field known as the “ Quarry Field,” the property of Earl 
‘Temple, in the parish of Newton St. Loe, and while cutting 
into the top earth they came upon two or three skeletons 
lying in what was evidently the site of an ancient burial 
ground. 
The discovery was brought to the notice of Mr. Charles 
‘Glover, schoolmaster at Newton, and on examining the place 
he found a quantity of broken pottery and Roman coins 
-associated with the burials. 
For a period of several years after this (1870—1883) he 
visited the place continually, and, by disturbing the top soil 
round the edge of the quarry with his stick, he obtained some 
interesting antiquities, including bronze articles, among which 
was a fine socketed knife. 
“Quarry Field” is situated on high ground to the east of 
the village, above the Bristol Road, and not far from the site 
of a Roman villa which was brought to light when the Great 
Western Railway was made. 
In 1876 Mr. Glover exhibited the antiquities he had collected 
up to that time before the Somerset Archzological and Natural 
History Society on the occasion of their visit to Bath. 
Mr. Glover’s collection is briefly referred to in the Pro- 
ceedings of this Society (vol. xxii, p. 64), but the writer of 
the notice appears to have been under the impression that the 
objects were found on the site of the Roman villa. Finding 
that this was not the case, the present writer wrote to Mr. 
Glover, jun., for full particulars of his late father’s discoveries. 
Mr. Glover replied as follows :— 
“The quarry, as you know, has a surface of soil of about 
