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AEOH^EOLOGIA. 



In our July number of the Intellectual Observer, we gave an 

 account of the discovery of what we believe to be the Roman Sta- 

 tion op Yindomis, in the neighbourhood of An clover ; and we have to 

 add that further discoveries have since been made near the same place. 

 The Rev. E. Kell and Mr. C. Lockhart, to whom we owe these 

 former discoveries, believed that other remains existed in connec- 

 tion with them ; and, on Monday, the 16th of September last, they 

 were successful in their search. The foundations of a second 

 Roman building were discovered in the same Castle Field, at the 

 distance of 256 feet to the westward of the one excavated in May 

 last. This new discovery is as yet of small extent ; the four 

 labourers employed uncovered the foundations of a wall three feet 

 thick, composed of faced flints, for a distance of fifteen feet only ; 

 but there can be no doubt that it extended much further, and that, 

 in fact, it forms part of some considerable building. What relation 

 this may have to the building formerly excavated, it is impossible, 

 with our yet imperfect knowledge, to conjecture. Among the anti- 

 quarian relics found in the course of the excavations were a Roman 

 coin, third brass, of one of the Constantine family ; numerous 

 fragments of pottery ; pieces of stone roof-flags, which showed that 

 it was the wall of a building which had had a roof; iron nails ; 

 some oyster-shells ; and bones and teeth of the ox, pig, etc. The 

 farmer of the land, Mr. Turner, was unable to allow any complete 

 examination of this new building to be made on the present occa- 

 sion, as it was necessary to occupy the land immediately for agri- 

 cultural purposes ; but he has promised to allow the exploration to 

 be continued in the autumn of 1868. 



The Rev. Canon Greenwell is indefatigable in his researches 

 among the Yorkshire Barrows. He has recently opened a group 

 of seven, in the vicinity of Weaverthorpe, on the range of hills 

 between Malton and Kley, two of which were very remarkable for 

 the objects found in them. They were all of low elevation, from 

 one to three feet ; but this was perhaps the mere effect of time. 

 The first of the two alluded to was two feet high by twenty- two in 

 diameter. A skeleton, judged to be that of a female, lay on its left 

 side, doubled up, in the centre,. on the natural surface of the ground. 

 On the right wrist was a beautiful bronze armlet, of the snake-head 

 pattern, and a succession of oval swellings lengthwise. Close to the 

 neck was a delicate bronze fibula, of the bow shape, extremely 

 elegant in workmanship. It had originally a tongue of the same 

 metal, which had been broken off, and replaced by an iron tongue. 

 On the chest lay a necklace of extremely beautiful beads, fifty-two 

 of glass and seventeen of amber. The glass beads, with one excep- 

 tion, were blue in colour, and ornamented with a zigzag pattern in 

 white enamel; the exceptional bead being larger and more globular, 

 and ornamented with amulets of white. Much broken pottery was 

 found in the mound, with a few flint-chippings. The other barrow 



