xxviii. THE FIRST WINTER MEETING. 



By Sir CHABLES ROBINSON (of Newton Manor, Swanage) : 



A sand-cast and flint and what was thought to be the head of a Purbeck 

 turtle. It certainly looked like a turtle's head, and if it really was so it was 

 unique, since Mr. Lydekker said that no turtle's head had ever yet been found 

 in that district. (See p. xxxiv., post.) 



By the Rev. C. W. H. DICKEE : 



A collection of worked flints, all surface finds, found by him and his son mostly 

 at Piddletrenthide. The most important specimen was a long and beautifully 

 fabricated implement, and there were also a few axe heads and a round stone 

 probably used for pounding grain. 



Mr. ENGLEHEAKT observed that the flints appeared mostly to date from an 

 early period of the Neolothic Age. 



By the Rev. Canon RAVENHILL : 



A paper knife made of the oak cut from a pile of the old Roman bridge, 

 Pons CElii, at Newcastle-on-Tyne. The bridge was opened A.D. 110, and there- 

 fore the tree from which the wood was cut must have been growing when Jesus 

 Christ was on earth. 



THE EXCAVATIONS AT MAUMBURY. In the unavoidable 

 absence of Mr. H. St. George Gray, Captain ACLAND read his 

 interim report on the excavations conducted by him at Maum- 

 bury Rings, Dorchester, last September. It was prefaced by a 

 short introduction written by Dr. H. Colley March, F.S.A., 

 Chairman of the joint committee representing the British 

 Archaeological Association and the Dorset Field Club, by whom 

 the investigation was conducted. The report will be found 

 printed at length in the volume of " Proceedings," 1908, p. 256. 

 At the PRESIDENT'S invitation Mr. C. S, PRIDEAUX, as Mr. 

 Gray's collaborator in the work, added a few remarks. Mr. 

 ENGLEHEART, who is a recognised authority on Roman 

 antiquities, was also invited to speak, and observed that, judging 

 by the size of the red-deer antlers, there must in prehistoric 

 times have been red-deer in this island of great bulk and with 



