THE ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING. 11. 



Captain ACLAND read the following notes dealing with the 

 chief additions, during 1913, to the Museum under his care : 



It is with much pleasure that I avail myself of this opportunity of 

 describing to the members of the Field Club some of the principal 

 recent acquisitions by the County Museum. 



There have been several interesting additions to the prehistoric 

 collections, and perhaps the most remarkable is a cinerary urn, found at 

 Puncknoll in the year 1908. A photograph of this urn was shewn at a 

 recent meeting of the Field Club by Mr. Henry Symonds, through whose 

 kind efforts, in connection with Mr. W. G. Cornick of Bridport, it has 

 now come to the Museum. The British Museum does not possess a 

 specimen of this type, nor is one shewn in Mr. John Abercromby's 

 great work on Bronze Age pottery, which contains over 1,600 illustra- 

 tions. It was found under the foundation of an old building apparently 

 a " Watch-tower," which had been erected on a mound, possibly a 

 barrow. The urn was said to be protected by 4 stones standing on 

 edge and another placed upon the top. 



A second valuable acquisition of the same class, from Mr. Pike, of 

 King Barrow, Wareham, is a fine cinerary urn discovered in a cist cut 

 in the chalk under a barrow at East Down House, about 2 miles S.E. 

 of Winterbourne Clenston, and 3 miles from Blandford. It is equal 

 in size to the largest urn in the Museum, 22 inches high, 17 inches 

 diam. at the top. It is of the well known Dorset " flowerpot " shape, 

 and is practically identical with one we already have from the same 

 locality ; we could almost imagine in fact that they had been made 

 at the same time, and by the same hand. This collection has also been 

 increased by a gift from Mrs. Hall, of Osmington, of 3 small urns, or 

 " food vessels," in good contition, part (probably) of Mr. C. L. Hall's 

 original collection. She sent at the same time 8 Roman black ware 

 vessels ; 2 broken Roman fluted cups, and other fragments. Some of 

 these are dated 1839 and 1840. 



Among other relics of the Roman period, we have acquired a good 

 flue tile and a portion of an Antefix, from Miss Oliver, of Preston ; a 

 loom weight, 7 Ibs., found in Dorchester, and formerly in my own 

 possession ; and several objects of Kimmeridge shale from the clay pits 

 near Wareham, given by Mr. Pike. He states that a very large number 

 of much the same shape and workmanship are found together, such as 

 roughly cut rings, and disks, which leads him to think they were 

 brought there and used for some purpose connected with the pottery 

 works. They are not turned on a lathe like the waste cores of 

 armlets, but roughly chipped with a chisel. 



More than 100 Roman bronze coins have been given by Mrs. W. 

 Mansel, from Puncknoll. They were found in that parish, and it 



