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SECOND WINTER MEETING. 

 Tuesday, Feb. 13th, 1912. 



Present : The President, Lord Eustace Cecil, the Hon. 

 Secretary, Editor, and Dr. Colley March (Vice- 

 Presidents), Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hardy, and 45 other 

 Members. 



Five new Members were elected, and six nominations 

 announced. 



RELICS FROM MAUMBURY RINGS. Captain ACLAND 

 exhibited a number of interesting objects found during the 

 excavations at Maumbury Rings in 1910 and now in the 

 Dorset County Museum. The first was a piece of prehistoric 

 pottery, found in the deep shaft at a depth of 18ft. and 

 associated with the antler picks, which he also exhibited. 

 He mentioned the result of an interesting test of the practical 

 utility of these primitive tools, a workman finding that he 

 could work as well and quickly with them as with a modern 

 pickaxe. Captain Acland also showed a small Romano- 

 British urn found close to the right hand of a skeleton lying 

 on loose silting a foot above the Roman entrance. For 

 comparison he produced a similar urn found in 1893 just 

 outside Maumbury, 25 yards to the north of the entrance. 

 With this were two Roman coins, one of Faustina junior, d. 

 175. In other Roman or Romano-British burials adjoining 

 were found a two-handled cup and iron nails. Another 

 interesting exhibit was a beautiful bronze brooch, much like 

 a modern safety-pin. Captain Acland added the reminder 

 that the finding of the prehistoric relics did not, of course, 

 disprove Maumbury Rings being a Roman amphitheatre. 

 It simply showed that before the Romans came the place was 

 used as a flint-quarry by the prehistoric flint-knappers, 

 after which the Romans used the same site for quite another 

 purpose. Mr. ALFRED POPE, in thanking Captain Acland for 



