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NOTES AND COMiVlENTS. 



YORKSHIRE ROMAN REMAINS. 

 The first annual meeting' of the Roman Antiquities Committee 

 for Yorkshire was held in the Museum at York on Saturday, 

 March 3rd, under the presidency of Dr. N. Boding-ton, of the 

 Leeds University. A tour was made around the principal objects 

 of interest in this city, under the guidance of Mr. F. Haverfield, 

 F.S.A., of Oxford. Mr. Haverfield also delivered an address to 

 about forty antiquaries from all parts of the county, in which 

 he congratulated the new society upon the fact that in it the 

 Yorkshire Universities and the local societies were working- 

 together — a rare occurrence in this country, curiously enough ; 

 and he also suggested lines upon which the society should carry 

 out its work. Mr. Haverfield was rather severe with the nature 

 of the work of the average amateur, and urg^ed that research 

 should be largely left to the specialists. To some extent, 

 perhaps, he was rig'ht, but it must not be forgotten that, in 

 Yorkshire particularly, most of our present knowledge of the 

 relics of Roman occupation is the result of the efforts of the 

 amateur. And so long- as the amateur is content to carefully 

 record facts, and place the results of his excavations, localised 

 and described, in some permanent public institution, no one, not 

 even Mr. Haverfield, would have anything to say against him. 

 It is doubtless due to the fact that Mr. Haverfield has had 

 occasion to examine ' tons ' of local publications for papers, 

 most of which were of a speculative or theoretical character, 

 that caused him to speak so strongly. And we can sympathise 

 with him. 



WORK FOR 1906. 

 In the new society, however, with the experienced men on 

 its list of officers, there is every hope that good will result from 

 its work. During the coming year the researches named below 

 will be carried on, under the supervision of the persons referred 

 to: (i) Investig-ation of the Roman Road from Ilkley to Adel 

 and Tadcaster, by Sir John Barran, Bart. ; (2) Excavation of 

 the Roman Villa at Harpham, by Mr. T. Sheppard ; (3) 

 Investigation of the Roman Road across East Yorkshire from 

 Stamford Bridge, by Mr. W. Stevenson ; (4) Excavation of 

 Roman Foundations at Middleham, by Dr. Bodington ; and 

 (5) Roman Remains near Tanfield, by Mr. J. N. Dickons. It 

 was also decided to form a Bibliog"raphy of Literature on York- 



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