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Kimmeridge, and as there is no Kimmeridge shale nearer, I am led to 

 the conclusion that there was a manufactory both at Povington and 

 at Tyneham. From two holes at Povington, each about a yard in 

 diameter, Mr. Austen procured from six to eight hundred pieces 

 of coal-money, many broken pieces of armlets, and flint-chips 

 some of which were pointed, and probably served as tools for the 

 lathe. The pieces found in one of the holes differed in size from 

 those in the other, although only a few yards apart. The larger 

 were of the usual type ; the smaller appeared to be the centres of 

 links for chains. Minute pieces of shale, probably chippings from 

 the lathe, were in both holes. Associated with coal-money at 

 Povington were a rude saucer of Kimmeridge shale, several pieces 

 lathe-worked, with portions of rings attached to them. There 

 were also four smoking-pipes, small in the bowl and thick in the 

 shank, similar to those figured in Mr. Willis's catalogue of the anti- 

 quities in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy. Our eminent 

 fellow-member, Dr. Wake Smart, says that the late Mr. Charles 

 Hall, of Ansty, had a piece of Kimmeridge shale, about a foot long, 

 rudely carved with a lion's or leopard's face upon it, which he found 

 at Frampton with Roman remains, including a magnificent Roman 

 pavement. Among many other relics found in a Roman cemetery, 

 at Jordan Hill, near Weymouth, was a slab lying near the humerus 

 of a human skeleton, and on it a small cup of black ware with a 

 handle ; also another cup of Samian ware, around which were placed 

 five small bowls of black-ware, with a piece of Kimmeridge shale, 

 smooth, and bearing linear and semi-circular tracings. In the 

 late Mr. Durden's collection is an oblong block of Kimmeridge 

 shale with the figure of a lion in relief. This, too, came from Jordan 

 Hill. Some years ago Mr. Durden found the site of a Roman kiln 

 at Bagber, in the parish of Milton Abbas, with coins of Philippus 

 Junior, Alexander Severus, Gordianus, and Antoninus ; also a 

 circular piece of Kimmeridge shale, sufficiently perfect to show that 

 it was the part of a potter's wheel ; the contrivance for giving it a 

 rotatory motion is \\ell shown on its under surface. I found last 

 year at this kiln the broken portion of a circular-shaped worked 



