106 EXCAVATIONS AT MAUMBURY RINGS. 



At depths not recorded. 



Dog (Canis familiaris) — larger than fox. 



Toad (Bufo vulgaris) — large size, as in Shaft IX. 



VII.— Woods. 



The most interesting specimens of decayed and carbonized 

 wood found at Maumbury in 1912 were sent to Mr. Clement 

 Reid, F.R.S., for examination ; he has kindly reported as 



follows : — 



Cutting XXI. — 



In Roman Deposits. — Oak charcoal. 



Specimen from post-hole. — Indeterminable. 



Charred wood found in burnt area against the heap of stones at the south 



end of the cutting. — Hazel. 

 In Shaft IX., with bones. — Hazel (?). 

 In Shaft IX., depth 20 feet. — Oak charcoal. 

 Frofn bottom of rammed chalk over Shaft XI. — Apparently fragments of 



root — perhaps oak. 



Cutting XXVII.— 



Wood on Iron Nails found near Human Skeleton. — Not determinable, 

 but resembles oak. 



VIII. — 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 that the Roman deposit yielded Helix aspersa (typical) 

 and several H. nemoralis, of which two were especially conical in form, 

 and one of these very solid in substance. A mass of shells, chalk, and 

 mould from the surface of the rammed chalk Roman work in Cutting 

 XXI., having been carefully washed, yielded several H. itala var. 

 minor, numerous Hygromia hispida var. concinna, and Pupa muscorum ; 

 also a couple of Vallonia pulchella. From Prehistoric Shaft IX., 

 depth 20 feet, were a fine Helicella itala with the upper band very high, 

 and two with contracted utnbilicus approaching the Continental 

 European H. obvia. 



