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Report of Marlborough College Nat. Hist. Society 

 for the year ending Christmas, 1911 No 60 



Marlborough, 1912. 



Tlie annual reports of the various sections are given, recording, as 

 usual, much good work, though the district has been so thoroughly 

 worked Botanically and Entomologically for so many years that the 

 discovery of new species in either section is a comparatively rare 

 occurrence. Six new species were, however, added to the list of 

 Lc /)idopterf I km\ul \vit\\\n 'A radms of ten miles of Marlborough, and 

 the complete list here rc-jjrinted numbers now one thousand one 

 hundred and seventy-six species. 'J'liis is the only serious attem])t 

 to compile a list of Lepidoptera occurring in Wiltshire which has 

 hitln-rto been made, and it probably re])resents fairly completely the 

 butt'/rtlies and moths of the chalk and gravel districts of the centre of 

 the county, though doubtless both in the extreme north and south a 

 good many other species occur. Among birds the Black-headed Gull 

 ami the Redshank were observed at Poulton and Mildenhall, and the 

 Common Snipe nested at Stitchcombe. There is the usual valuable 

 summary of Meteorological observations, the rainfall for 1911 having 

 been 2G"l() inches, 5^ inches short of the corrected average for forty- 

 seven years. 



rransactions of the North Wilts Field and Camera 

 Club Vol 3 Published by the Club, 1912. T. 

 C Davison, Hon Sec , Swindon. Swindon, 1912 



8vo., })p. 14. Contains only one paper, " Neolithic Flint Implements 

 in North Wilts," by the Hev. H. G. O. Kendall, with three plates of 

 implements, chiefly scrapers, and arrowheads from Windmill Hill. 



The author begins with a general sketch of the various antiquities 

 to be found in the Swindon and Marlborough district of North Wilts, 

 mentioning among them the *' so-called Roman Bath " in Temple 

 Bottom, This curious object has never been described and has probably 

 been seen by very few, indeed it is only here casually mentioned by 

 Mr. Kendall. It is a big thick natural sarsen stone having on its upper 

 surface a basin, which was originally ])rol)ably a natural depression in 

 the stone but has certainly been enlarged and chiselled out intentionally. 

 This basin is drained by a small hole or drain through the side of the 

 stone. There is nothing whatever to show for what purpose 

 this basin was formed, or to what age it belongs. The stone wliich 

 contains it was spared whun the many other sar.sen stones on the spot 

 were broken up. The bulk of the paper, however, is concerned, as the 

 title shows, with Mr. Kendall's own special subject, the Hint imple- 

 ments of the district, and he goes somewhat fully into the dilUcult and 

 vexed (piestion of the ditVering colours and ])atina of the Hints from 

 different localities, and the causes tliereof, with the relation of patina 

 to age, and the ])ossibility of dividing tiir so called " Neolithic " (lints 

 into several dill'frent periods. 



"On Windmill Hill, as well as on the south end of liaekpiMi Hill. 



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