Notes. 141 



Wylye Church Candelabra, in Mr. Pon ting's notes on this 



Church, W. A. M., xxxv., 380, it is stated that "There are three 

 fine brass candelabra of twelve lights each without inscription." The 

 Eector, the Kev. G. R. Hadow, writes that this is not accurate. Two of 

 the candelabra only are old, and on one there is this inscription "The 

 Gift of Tho. Mease, A.D. 1814." They were originally in old Wilton 

 Church and came here when the pulpit did. The third is not old, but 

 was given by Mr. Sidney Meade when Rector. 



" Prolusiones Historic^, The Hall of John Halle." 



As is well known only the first volume of this work by the Rev. Edward 

 Duke was ever published. Amongst the books from Lake House, how- 

 ever, which were sold at Salisbury on March 5th, 1908, were several 

 sets of plates destined for the second volume. A set of these plates has 

 been given to the Society's Library by Mr. J.J. Hammond, who, however, 

 ascertained from the late Canon Rashleigh Duke on the occasion of the 

 sale that this second volume was never written, and that no part of any 

 MS. of it exists. 



Iron Object Of Unknown USe. With reference to the Iron 

 Object with four spikes found at Oliver's Camp and illustrated W.A.M., 

 xxxv., 431, Mr. A. D. Passmore writes (Feb. 23, 1909) that he has • 

 obtained a precisely similar object in good condition from a pit on the 

 downs. Mrs. B. H. Cunnington also writes (Feb. 25th, 1909) : " Several 

 of them were found in a well with other Roman things in the Roman 

 fort on the Bar Hill, Dumbartonshire. Similar objects have also been 

 found at Pompeii, Epinay in France, and on one of the forts on the 

 German Limes. There is one in the Guildhall Museum. They are strips 

 of iron rivetted or joined in the centre in the form of the letter X , but 

 the Oliver's Camp example is rather bent. It seems they are thought to 

 have been attached to window frames to keep the panes of glass in place, 

 but one German authority thinks they were door fittings. See Proe. 

 Soc. Ant. Scot., XL., 513, fig. 39 No. 9. 



Against this idea of their use is to be set the fact that Mr. Passmore's 

 example has the points regularly curved into a cup shape, as though they 

 were intended to hold or contain something, and this was more or less 

 the case also with the Oliver's Camp example, though that was bent out 

 of shape. Ed. H. Goddaed. 



Intaglio at Teffont Magna. It may be worth noting that a 

 small intaglio on cornelian picked up in the allotment at Teffont Magna 

 in the spring of 1909, and believed to be Roman, was pronounced by the 

 British Museum authorities to be an eighteenth century head of 

 Shakspeare. C. V. Goddaed. 



Bronze Knife Dagger. A small bronze knife dagger found casually 

 among road flints at Rockley, doubtless from the downs near, is illus- 

 trated in Man, March, 1909, pp. 39, 40, in a note by the Rev. H. G. O. 

 Kendall on " Remarkable Arrowheads and Diminutive Bronze 



