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REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 



Verbena officinalis 

 Prunella vulgaris 

 Stachys sylvatioa 

 Lainiiimpwrpureum . 

 Chenopodium album, . 

 „ rubrum . 



A triplex 



Polygonum aviculare . 

 „ Persicaria 



Rumcx crispus ? 

 Urtioa, dioica 

 „ urens 

 Corylns Ariellaiia 

 Eleocharis palustris . 

 Scirpits laciistris . . 

 Carex (four sp.) 

 Triticum sativum 

 Pteris aquilina . 



(Vervain"). 

 (Self-heal). 

 (Woundwort). 

 (Purple Deadnettle). 



(Goosefoot). 



(Orache). 

 (Knotgrass). 

 (Persicaria). 

 (Dock). 



(Stinging-nettles). 



(Hazel). 



(Sedges). 



(Wheat). 

 (Bracken). 



In the same samples the following animal remains occurred : Mouse 

 (tibia), frog (vertebra), Limax, Helix (fragments, 1 pomatia), Helix 

 rotundata, Zonites, Balanus, Eoebuck (footbones), dog (ungual 

 phalanx and tail vertebra), sheep (tooth), hare (half atlas vertebra), 

 laird (two tibite), Ostrea, Helix. 



The list of objects froni the well in House XIII.,' near the S. gate, 

 is as follows. It includes small animals, but not pottery or bones of 

 large animals, which have been kept separately in the Museum at 

 Caerwent : — 



(a) At 13 feet 6 inches.— 7/rfZ.r rotundata ; Mytilus edulis ; charcoal. 



(&) At 15 feet 6 inches. — Fragments of bone (bank vole ?), shell, and charcoal ; 



wheat. 

 (<;) At 19 feet (5 inches. — Foot-bones of water vole? 

 ((i) At 22 feet 2 inches. — Fragment of crinoid from Carboniferous limestone: Sus 



scrofa. Mm sylvaticus. 



Vicia tetraspernium , 

 lluhus frutlcosus . 

 Conium macnlatnin ' . 

 A2num graveolens 

 Aetlinsa Cyiiapium 

 Anetlmm graveolcns . 

 Sambucus nigra . 

 Galeopsis Tetraldt 

 Chenopodium album. . 

 Atriplex patula . 

 Polygonum aviculare . 

 Rumex sp. , 

 Urtica dioica 

 Corylus Avellana 

 Quercus Robur ,, ' . 

 Salix .... 

 £riojjhorum jwlystachyon ? 

 Triticum sativum 



(e) At 23 feet 10 inches (bottom) :— 

 Ranvnculus repens 

 Brassica ? single seed. 

 Lychnis. 



(Tare). 



(Blackberry). 



(Hemlock). 



(Wild Celery). 



(Fool's Parsley). 



(Dill). 



(Elder). 



(Hemp-nettle). 



(Goosefoot.) 



(Orache). 



(Knotgrass). 



(Dock). 



(Stinging-nettle). 



(Hazel). 



(Oak). 



(Willow). 



(Cotton-grass). 



(Wheat). 



(Buttercup). 



' The site is divided into two parts by the ancient (and modern) high road ; and 

 the houses to the north of it have a separate numbering from those on the south, 

 being distinguished by the suffix N. ■ • . 



