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is important in connection with the researches now pursued with 

 so much earnestness among the monuments of the antiquity of 

 man. 



One of those curious heaps of the debris of the refuse from the 

 tables of our primitive forefathers, which the Danish antiquaries 

 call Ko'cken-moddings, and which we might translate by kitchen- 

 middings or kitchen-mixens, has recently been found AT Newhaven, 

 in Sussex, and we believe that a full account of it is in preparation, 

 to be read at a future meeting of the Anthropological Society. 

 Among the objects found were limpet and other shell, bones of 

 several animals, a few flint flakes, broken pottery, and two or three 

 rather fragmentary objects of metal. Among the latter are a leaden 

 hook, which appears to have been intended for a fish-hook, and a 

 small coin, but in such a dilapidated condition that it cannot be 

 identified. The pottery appears to be all of the Roman period, 

 and presents several specimens of the dark-coloured ware, made 

 in what some antiquaries have termed smother-kilns, and two 

 fragments of fine Samian ware. The flint flakes were found, as 

 we understand, above the Samian ware. They all belong, probably, 

 to the later Roman period. 



The attention of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland has been 

 called, at a recent meeting, to the existence of artificial islands or 

 CRANnogs, as they are called, in the Scottish lakes. They are repre- 

 sented as formed by stockading, and intended evidently for places 

 of temporary refuge, and not as permanent residences, in 

 which circumstance chiefly they differ from the pile-buildings of 

 Switzerland. One of these stockaded islands, of which an ac- 

 count was given at a recent meeting of the Scottish Antiquarian 

 Society, is situated in the loch of Dowalton, in Wigtonshire, on 

 the property of Sir "William Maxwell ; but others were mentioned 

 as having been destroyed within the memory of living people, with- 

 out any observation of the antiquities which were found in them, 

 and it is believed that many of them yet remain. A short ac- 

 count was also given of a crannog found in a moss near Apple- 

 garth, in Dumfriesshire, which consists of a platform of oak-trees 

 resting on moss, and covered by moss of six or seven feet in depth. 

 This foundation platform was covered with layers of brick, twig, 

 and bracken, and, as far as it is at present uncovered, is about a 

 hundred and fifty feet in length by twenty or thirty in width, with 

 the appearance of a hearth at one point. Among the objects found 

 at the Dowalton crannog was a bronze dish of Roman manufacture, 

 which was the only object indicating a date. T. ~W. 



Roman Villa in the Isle of Wight. — A correspondent remarks 

 concerning the Roman villa at Gurnard Bay. " The excavations 

 appear to have been but partially carried out, and without much 

 method ; but portions of the limestone walls, the material for which 

 is found on the spot, may be traced! The flooring, also, of one apart- 

 ment, with its small square red tiling, is exposed in a good state of 

 preservation. From the discolouration of one portion of the stone- 

 work, it is presumed the situation of an oven or flue is well deter- 

 mined. The remains stand on what is now the extreme verge of the 



