858 TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION H. 



with special reference to tlie effects of tLe Roman oscupatlon of Wales and of 

 the noii-Eoman invasions which termiuatsd and succeeded that occupation. 



The Liverpool Committee has its headquarters in the Liverpool University 

 Institute of Archfeology, and carries on its work in close association with the 

 School of Celtic Studies there. Its first task has been to enter into a close under- 

 standing with the local ArchjEological Societies, which have done so much for the 

 archjeology of Wak's in the past ; and in particular with the Cambrian Archseo- 

 log'ical Association, whose publications contain by far the most copious collection 

 of materials for early Welsh history. Many of these societies are already 

 engaged upon archoeological surveys of their respective districts, and there is a 

 general desire that as far as possible these surveys shall be carried out on uniform 

 plan and scale. 



The work of the Committee for the current year has been confined to the 

 conduct of a preliminary survey of a few districts of Wales which have not j-et 

 been undertaken by any local society, and to tentative excavations on sites which 

 seem likely to deserve more thorough examination in the near future. Such, for 

 example, is the excavation of the Roman site at Caerleon, of which a summary 

 is given below, by Mr. H. G. Evelyn-White. By these means the Committee 

 expects to enter upon the work of tlio next season with an adequate staff of 

 trained workers, and with a plan of investigation based upon a general survey 

 of the present state of our knowledge of the country and its monuments. 



3. Excavations at Caerleon, Monmouthshire. 

 By H. G. Evelyn- White. I 



Excavations have recently been carried out at Caerleon on a piece of ground 

 lately added to the churchyard. As 'quarrying' has been actively pursued on the 

 site the plan could in some parts only bs recovered by following mere foundations 

 at a depth of 4 or 5 feet. The area excavated, judging by analogy, apparently is 

 a little north of the site of the 2>i'incipia j)ratorium. 



Among the finds were the lower part of a sandstone statuette, the base of 

 which bore the inscription 



'DEO MERC V RIO 

 [A]VR DD SEVER P (?),' 



an amphora handle with the graflRto (in cursive letters) 'AMINE,' and a few coins, 

 chiefly of the Constantine family, but including one each of Carausius and Trajan. 

 The value of the excavations consists in the recovery of the ground plan, espe- 

 cially as this will shortly be inaccessible for ever. 



4. Neolithic Culture in North Greece. By J. P. Droop, B.A.^ 



Recent exploration of the neolithic culture of Northern Greece has shown that 

 the plain districts of Southern Pelasgiotis, Thessaliotis, Phthiotis, Mails, and 

 Phocis were inhabited from an early date by three peoples alike in culture, and 

 near akin, but distinguishable by the varying style of their painted pottery. The 

 mounds of accumulated deposit from their settlements are easily distinguishable in 

 the plains. 



The stone implements consist of celts (sometimes bored), rubbers, and polishers ; 

 while obsidian chips are much more frequent than flint. 



One people lived in the district round Pagasre and Pheraj : another in the 

 plains round Pharsala and Itonos ; and the third in Phocis, as far south as 

 Chfcronea. The two southern peoples show a nearer kinship. 



' To be published in fall in the Annual Biport of the Lh-erpool Committee for 

 Exnar-ation and Renearrh in Wales and th? Mirches. 



^ To be published in the Annudl of the British Saliool of Archeology at Athens. 



