1870.] Archaeology. 93 



pondus exaniinatis pro nnmmo. Nascitur ibi . . . .in maritimis 

 ferruin ; sed ejus exigua est copia," make Mr. Boyd Dawkins 

 believe that these workings were commenced long previous to the 

 Bonian occupation. 



Numerous similar pre-historic iron-mines worked upon the same 

 primitive plan (the product of which, like that of the Fan tribes 

 in Africa at the present day, could only have amounted to a few 

 pounds' weight of metal) are to be met with in many places 

 along the northern part of Norfolk, a little inland, from Cromer 

 to Hunstanton. 



The Bepartement cle L'Aveyron, to which we referred in our 

 last Chronicle as that in which the Cavern of Bruniquel was 

 situated, seems to be equally rich in megalithic monuments as it 

 undoubtedly is in caves. Of these Dolmens numerous illustrations 

 are given, and also of the ornaments and implements of stone, bone, 

 and bronze found within the mounds and circles. 



The Memoir by the Bev. Bichard Kirwan, M.A., on the 

 excavation of three Tumuli on Broad Down, Farway, near 

 Honiton, Devon, is of the highest archaeological interest, not only 

 on account of the works of art which they contained but also as 

 exhibiting three barrows, each differently constructed, belonging 

 to a very early period, probably long antecedent to the Boman 

 occupation of Britain. Mr. Kirwan's paper is illustrated by nine 

 plates. 



There are many other papers in this volume, but we have not 

 space to notice them here. 



1 Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, Literature, and Art, 1869.' 8vo. Pp. 310. — 

 Mr. Pengelly has now published the second part of his 'Lite- 

 rature of Kent's Cavern,' in which he gives the whole of the Bev. 

 J. Mac Enery's manuscript. ' On the alleged occurrence of Hip- 

 popotamus major and Machairodus latidens in Kent's Cavern, 

 Torquay.' The author, in revising the evidence, comes to the 

 conclusion that no remains belonging to the former animal have 

 been found, but that the latter undoubtedly has. 



Mr. Gr. Wareing Ormerod gives a notice of the molars of Hippo- 

 potamus major stated to have been found in Kent's Cavern, and, 

 like Mr. Pengelly, does not think there is any trustworthy evi- 

 dence that they were found there. 



Mr. Pengelly also contributes a few notes upon the submerged 

 forest at Blackpool, near Dartmouth. This forest, usually entirely 

 concealed by the sand thrown up by the waves, was, for the third 

 time during this century, exposed to Tisw by the tempestuous 

 weather in February last. In the seaward portion was a brownish 



