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for a grant to carry to a finish an investigation that has already contributed 
something to the advancement of science. It is estimated that 100/. would 
nearly suftice for the complete excavation of La Cotte, while the uncovering of the 
whole back of the ravine might cost another 100/., or perhaps rather more. It 
would be advisable to attack La Cotte first, as it is more certain to yield solid 
results, and, indeed, can hardly fail to prove a gold-mine. 
2. Exploration of a dolmen, containing interments, pottery, &c., at Les Monts 
Grantez, at St. Ouen’s, Jersey, in September 1912. 
3. Discovery and examination of a cist or dolmen of a type novel to the 
island, with surrounding stone circles and graves, at L’Islet, St. Sampson’s, 
Guernsey, in October and November 1912. 
4. Other recent finds, ranging from alleged eoliths (Jersey) and paleoliths 
(Guernsey) to a stone object resembling a mould, found in the Lower Peat— 
i.e., at the neolithic level—but more probably belonging to a later period (Jersey). 
2. Flint Implements found in the County of Hampshire. 
By W. Dats, F.S.A. 
A series of flint implements was exhibited of the kind usually called ‘celts,’ 
all from the county of Hants. Being found in the surface soil, or never at a 
greater depth than two feet, these would have been called a few years back 
Neolithic. Some leading archeologists, however, have lately made a special 
study of the forms of the implements abroad belonging to the later ages of the 
Paleolithic period and have compared with them implements found on well- 
known British sites, such as Grimes’s Graves and Cissbury, with the result that 
they consider many of the chipped celts found at the places named and else- 
where should be considered late Paleolithic rather than Neolithic. They also 
maintain that the great gap or ‘hiatus’ which was supposed to separate the 
Paleolithic from the Neolithic age does not exist, but that the ages were 
continuous. Also it is advanced by some that the art of rubbing or polishing 
stone was also known in Jate Paleolithic times. 
It was in illustration of these views that this series was shown. It contained 
a number of both carefully chipped and rough celts, many of the well-known 
Cissbury type. Celts of Cissbury form slightly rubbed were also shown, and the 
series ended with specimens of the perfectly polished celts. Some of the celts 
are covered with iron stains, which abroad is taken as a proof of antiquity. 
3. Excavations on the Site of the Roman Town of Viroconium at 
Wrozeter, Salop.1 By J. P. Busus-Fox. 
These excavations, undertaken by the Society of Antiquaries in conjunction 
with the Shropshire Archeological Society, are now in their second season. 
The ancient name of the town was Uriconium or Viroconium. The area 
within the walls amounted to about 170 acres—about one-third larger than 
Silchester. It is situated some six miles south-east of Shrewsbury. 
The site appears to have been inhabited from the earliest days of the Roman 
conquest. Its first occupation must have been a military one, as tombstones of 
soldiers of the Fourteenth Legion have been found in the cemetery. This legion 
left Britain for good in the year a.p. 70. The site, lying as it does on the east 
side of the Severn, and thus protected from the mountainous district on the 
west, would have formed an admirable base against the turbulent tribes of 
Wales, which gave the Romans so much trouble in the first century of our era. 
After the cessation of hostilities, the town, situated at the junction of two 
of the main Roman roads, appears to have grown into one of the largest Romano- 
British centres. Although there were larger towns in Britain, Wroxeter is the 
largest which can be almost entirely excavated, as it lies in the open country, 
without any large modern town built over it. 
During 1912 about two acres were excavated near the centre of the town, and 
revealed four large houses facing on to a street. This street appeared to be one 
of the main roads of the town, and a direct continuation of the Watling Street, 
* To be published in Archcologia. 
