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Rude pottery containing grains of calcite was found in 

 old workings at Furfooz, Namur, Belgium, in association 

 with picks and other implements of antler.* A fragment 

 of rude pottery, also of Neolithic date, was found under the 

 primary interments in Wor Barrow, Handley Down, N. 

 Dorset. | 



VII. SHELLS. 



Messrs. W. Denison Roebuck, F.L.S., and John W. Taylor, 

 of Leeds, have kindly examined the shells found at Maumbury 

 this season. They report as follows : 



" The shells submitted to us were from Cuttings XII. and 

 XX. In Roman silt in Cutting XX. were several Helix 

 aspersa, chiefly the obliquely convoluted British form, and 

 from the earth round the group of four stones (with Roman 

 deposits) were two Ccecilioides acicula, one Zua lubrica, along 

 with Helicella itala and a dwarf depressed form of Hygromia 

 hispida. In Cutting XII., just under the floor of the Roman 

 arena of the amphitheatre were the two forms last mentioned 

 in quantity, also Helix nemoralis var. major. A number of 

 specimens of which the positions were not kept also included 

 two examples of Helix hortensis and fragments of a species of 

 Cardium a marine cockle." 



* Archcelogia, LXII, 118. 

 f " Excavations in Craiiborne Chase," IV., Plate 257, Fig. 19. 



