92 EXCAVATIONS AT MAUMBURY RINGS. 



I. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 



In our last report reference was made to the unfinished 

 exploration of the amphitheatre known as " King Arthur's 

 Round Table " at Caerleon. It was hoped that a fund of 

 500 might be raised to purchase the site, complete the 

 excavations, and put the walls of masonry into such a state 

 of repair as to enable them to withstand the weather. 



Unfortunately the Caerleon committee has been dissolved, 

 and the scheme is in abeyance. 



Beyond the city wall at Caerwent and on its N.E. side, as 

 noted in our last report, a structure was discovered in 

 September, 1912, which was at first thought to be a second 

 Roman amphitheatre, but later explorations show it to be a 

 round temple enclosing an octagonal structure.* 



In connection with the pre-history of Maumbury its 

 shafts, &c. we look forward to the results of the systematic 

 excavations which are being carried out at the Grime's 

 Graves, Weeting, Norfolk, by the Prehistoric Society of East 

 Anglia. The Grime's Graves consist of 254 saucer-shaped 

 depressions which are the mouths of shafts excavated in the 

 chalk rock. One of these shafts was excavated by Canon 

 Green well in 1870, and found to be 39 feet deep with galleries 

 at the bottom. Among the objects discovered were seventy- 

 nine red-deer antler picks (all below 17ft. from the surface), 

 more or less complete, a ground axe of basaltic stone, cup- 

 shaped vessels of chalk supposed to be lamps, and a well- 

 made chalk phallus (now in the British Museum). 



As director of the excavations, I had the pleasure of con- 

 tinuing the work at Maumbury in 1913 from September 4th 

 to October 4th (the filling -in being completed subsequently). 

 The sub-Committee, consisting of Dr. H. Colley March, F.S.A. 

 (Chairman], Captain J. E. Acland, F.S.A. (Secretary], Mr. J. 

 Meade Falkner, Mr. C. S. Prideaux, and Mr.W. de C. Prideaux, 



* Archaeologia, LXIV., 447452. 



