Notes. 489 



The Old Fonts of Chicklade and Pertwood. When 



the Kev. J. F. Homan went to Chicklade, he found the Old Font in 

 the Rectory garden, and reinstated it ; the monstrosity in use which 

 had been purchased early in the Nineteenth Century for less than £2, 

 was buried in the unused part of the Churchyard. Mr. Homan has 

 lately been able to perform the same service for Pertwood, where the 

 font in use was a pillar of porous stone with a shallow cup at the top, 

 scarcely deep enough to dip in the hand. This has now given place to 

 the ancient bowl, found in a copse, and reinstated on a new base by 

 the Hon. Percy Wyndham, Lord of the Manor. It is quite plain and 

 bears traces of the lock of the cover, and of a chain : and is dated by a 

 competent judge at a time between 1300 and 1350. 



C. V. GrODDARD. 



Bronze Age Interment at Wilton, in the spring of 1910, 



in the course of ploughing a field about 300 yards north of the Wilton 

 Reservoir one of the horses put his foot into a hole. On investigation 

 it was found -that the foot had broken through the base of an urn, in- 

 verted over a heap of ashes and burnt bones placed in a shallow cist in 

 the chalk just under the surface. There was no appearance of a barrow 

 having existed over the interment, though it is possible that such, if 

 it ever existed, might have been completely ploughed down. The urn 

 Avas of flowerpot shape with incised ornament. The fragments were 

 collected and preserved by Mr. C. E. Straton and will when restored be 

 placed in the Salisbury Museum. No other relics were found with the 

 bones. 



C. V. GoDDARD. 



WinterslOW Hoard Of Coins. " Treasure Trove.— While digging 

 in the garden of a cottage at Winterslow, South Wilts, occupied by a 

 village constable, a local builder named Yates, who was engaged in 

 repairs, unearthed a jar containing silver coins. The constable was 

 standing by and sent the coins to the police headquarters at Devizes, 

 where they were examined by Mr. B. Howard Cunnington, archaeologist, 

 who found they were chiefly shillings, about fifty in number, of the 

 reigns of Mary and Philip, Edward VI. , Elizabeth, Charles I., and 

 James I. The police have informed the Treasury of the discovery." 

 The Times, March 18th, 1910. 



The Roman Villa at Box. I have recently noticed a few errors 

 in Mr. Brakspear's Account of The Roman Villa at Box (Wilts Arch. 

 Mag., xxxiii., 236), which it may be as well to correct. 



(1) It was not in 1898, but during the summer of 1900 that Mr. 

 Hardy carried out his interesting excavations. 



(2) On page 247 it is stated that the whole pavement of Chamber 

 IV. "was found in fair preservation in 1898, but was then taken up." 

 This is incorrect. In September, 1901, the present writer "(then a 

 schoolboy) uncovered this particular pavement and removed a portion 

 of it for preservation. 



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