TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION H. 857 



west to Inrevness, and after tliat u )rtli tbroiigh Caithness to the Orkney Isles 

 and Lewis. 



A large number of the river names in this stone circle area are evidently 

 derived from the same root as Devon, thus indicating one important tribal name 

 among the stone circle race. The four rivers Dee (ancient Deva), for example, 

 are found in this area. 



The physical characters of the race with which the stone circles are associated 

 are unique. It is demonstrable from available data that this race, which is 

 assigned to the early Bronze Age, differs from all the other prehistoric races 

 found in Britain ; it also differs from the prehistoric races of Sweden, Denmark, 

 and Switzerland. Since the physical type of North-West Africa excludes the 

 probability of immigration from this region, we would appear to be driven to 

 seek the original home of these people in some region of Asia which the present 

 state of our knowledge does not enable us to identify with certainty. It is 

 interesting to note hero certain indications of affinity with the ancient people of 

 South-West Asia. 



13. Jieport an AV'thropometric Investigation in the Bntish Isles, 

 See Reports, p. 351, 



14. Report on Archceological and Ethnographical Researches in Crete. 



See Reports, p, 344, 



TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 



The following Papers and Report were read : — 



1. Excavations at Caerivent, Monmouthshire, on the Site of the Romano- 

 British City of Venta Silurum, in 1907-8. By T. Ashby, M.A., D.Litt.^ 



Of the excavations up to August 1907 an account was given at the Leicester 

 meeting. The rest of the campaign of 1907 was devoted to the exploration of 

 the Basilica and Forum, with the exception of the western portion of both, which 

 lies beyond the limits of Lord Tredegar's property. It was possible to recover 

 the plan of the whole block, which, surrounded by streets on all four sides, formed 

 one of the twenty i««Mte into which the town was divided, and it corresponds 

 closely with that of the Forum of Silchester. An interesting feature is the large 

 drain which carried the surface water off the open area under the Basilica and 

 away to the north. The season of 1908 was devoted to the continuation of work 

 in the insula, to the east of the Forum, to the south of a large house, 

 numbered VIP, excavated in 1906. Kemains of a temple and of several private 

 houses and some rubbish pits were found, one containing a peculiarly hideous 

 seated statuette of a female deity. 



2. The Work of the Liverpool Committee for Excavation and Research 

 in Wales and the Marches. By Professor John L. Myres, M.A."^ 



The Liverpool Committee for Excavation and Research in Wales and the 

 Marches was constituted in October 1907, with the object of co-operating with 

 existing agencies for the investigation of the early history of the Welsh people, 



' To be published in full in Archaologia. 



* To be published in full in the Annual Beport of the Livei-pool Committee for 

 Excf^vatiQn and Research in Wales and the Marches, 



