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Notes. 



Skull fOUUd at Loilgleat. Mr. H. St. G. Gray, of Taunton 

 Museum, wrote, on Oct. 2nd, 1912, that a fragment of a skull had been 

 found at Longleat during some repairs. Lord Bath, writing Sept. 30th, 

 described the spot thus : — " The cranium was found about 6ft. below 

 the surface, just outside the house, when repairing a culvert. The 

 culvert has now been closed up, and is above the place where the cranium 

 was found. I am told that there was nothing else found." There seems 

 no evidence as to the date of the skull fragment. 



Dwelling Pits on Winterbourne Monkton Down. 



At the end of December, 1912, a large rectangular excavation for a 

 reservoir 42ft. X 21ft. was made on the slope of Monkton Down, and 

 two " Dwelling Pits " were cut through, one on each of the longer sides 

 of the reservoir. Unfortunately nothing was known of the work until 

 it had been completed, when Mr. and Mrs. Cunnington visited the spot 

 and secured the pottery fragments, &c, for the Museum. From their 

 notes and from notes and sketches made by the Rev. H. G. O. Kendall, 

 F.S.A., these particulars are compiled. The pit 3ft. from S.W. corner 

 of the reservoir was almost cut away. It was apparently about 4ft. 6in- 



Section through Dwelling Pit on Winterbourne Monktou Down. 



deep with a diameter of about 3ft. 6ins. Of the other pit 10ft. 6ins. 

 from iS.E. corner, rather more than half remained. It was about 

 5ft. 5in. in depth from the surface, the upper 2ft. being humus, and the 



