732 TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION H. 



4. Report on Excavations on Roman Sites in Britain. — See Reports, p. 227. 



5. Report on Archceological and Ethnological Researches in Crete. 

 See Reports, p. 228. 



6. The Work of the Liverpool Committee for Excavation and Research in 

 Wales and the Marches. 1 By Professor R. C. Bosanquet. 



7. The Excavations at Caerwent, Monmouthshire, on the Site of the Romano- 

 British City of Venta Silurum, in 1909-10. By T. Ashby, M.A., D.Litt. 



The excavations of 1909 were at first carried on in the north-east corner of the 

 city. Important additions were made to the plan, which was found to preserve 

 the regular arrangement noticed elsewhere. Remains of several houses were 

 discovered, and also those of a building more than once altered, which, it is 

 possible, are those of a Christian church. Later in the season attention was 

 devoted to the completion of the excavation of the central insula in the north 

 half of the city, which contains the forum and basilica. The greater part of it 

 had been excavated in 1907, 2 but it was found possible in 1909 to make arrange- 

 ments for the exploration of the western portion of the basilica and the western 

 side of the forum. The block was found to be perfectly rectangular, being thus 

 more carefully laid out than most of the other buildings at Caerwent. The 

 basilica had no apse at either end, but at each end of the north aisle and nave was 

 a chamber of the same width as theirs, while at each end of the south aisle there 

 was an entrance from the streets which ran outside the forum on the east and 

 west. The south aisle had an open arcade towards the forum, which was sur- 

 rounded on the other sides (with the possible exception of the west side) by an 

 ambulatory and shops ; and the open area was drained by a large box-drain. 



The excavations of 1910 were conducted on the south side of the high road, 

 which coincides with the ancient road through the centre of the town. They 

 resulted in the discovery of a few houses, one of them much altered, so that its 

 original plan is difficult to make out. In the centre of it is a well-constructed 

 cellar. More than a hundred skeletons have been discovered here. The burials 

 are obviously of post-Roman date, the walls of the house having been partially 

 destroyed when the graves were dug. 



8. Excavations at Hagiar Kim and Mnaidra, Malta. 

 By T. Ashby, M.A., D.Litt. 



The excavations which were carried out by the Government of Malta under 

 my direction during the month of June at the well-known megalithic buildings 

 (in all probability sanctuaries) of Hagiar Kim and Mnaidra had a twofold 

 object : it was desired to ascertain whether in the original excavations of both 

 buildings in 1839 and 1840, and in the supplementary excavations of the former 

 in 1885. the ground-plan had been completely discovered, or whether there were 

 any additions to be made to it; and also, inasmuch as previous explorers had 

 unfortunately almost entirely neglected to preserve the small objects, and 

 especially the pottery, which it was obvious that they must have found, to see 

 whether it were not possible to remedy the deficiency to some extent by the 

 recovery of sufficient pottery at any rate for the determination of the date of 

 the structure. In the course of ten days' work at each building satisfactory 

 results were arrived at in both these respects. It was found that in front of 

 the facade both of Hagiar Kim and of the lower building at Mnaidra there 

 was a large area roughly paved with slabs of stone. This was also the case at 



1 To be published in the Liverpool Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology. 



2 See Report of the Dublin Meeting, 1908, p. 857. 



