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of the Late Celtic period, to which also no doubt the Monkton Pits 

 belonged. Gen. Pitt-Rivers found a single example in each of the 

 Romano-British Villages of Rotherley and Woodcuts. 



Mr. Kendall notes that in the trench from the reservoir down the 

 hill, animal bones and bits of pottery showed in two places, and the 

 workmen said that two Roman coins had been found at one spot where 

 pottery fragments were visible. Just over the first fence below the 

 reservoir is a terrace, of which a section is here given, showing about 

 Sin. of deep brown humus, 6in. to 2ft. of pale soil (chalk and soil 

 mixed ?), and in the line marked X blue or bluish-white flint flakes, &c. 

 In other places below the humus is a reddish slightly clayey soil with 

 naturally-broken blue flints. In one place a large sarsen lay in a pit of 

 the reddish soil. Mr. Kendall believes that some of the sarsens in the 

 bottom of the valley have been arranged in two parallel rows. He also 

 writes: "On the spur of the hill they have found 12ft. (it may prove 

 to be more) of sand in a fault (?) in the chalk, 4ft. wide or more, with 

 big chalk lumps and natural flints in the sand. The Director of the 

 Geological Museum, Jermyn Street, admits that if the sand in the 

 chalk fault (?) be Eocene it would mean that the escarpment was 

 formed in pre-Eocene times. He does not, however, think this likely. 

 "On the other hand," he says, "the possibility of the sand being 

 Pliocene must be borne in mind." Nothing has been found to prove 

 the age of the sand, but it has the appearance to my eye of being the 

 same material as that of which many of the sarsens are formed." 



Mr. Edgar Barclay's Paintings of Stonehenge. The 



late Mr. Edgar Barclay, author of the well-known book, Stone kenge and 

 its Earthworks, published in 1895, an artist of no small capacity, 

 painted in the years 1890 — 91 a series of oil paintings, twenty-seven in 

 number, of Stonehenge and its surroundings. This collection of 

 framed pictures was most generously offered as a gift to our Society, 

 after his death, by his sister, Mrs. Florence Belt Irving, " on condition 

 that the collection be exhibited complete at the Museum Library." 

 Unfortunately want of wall space at the Museum made it impossible 

 for the Society to accept this interesting and valuable gift, and the 

 Hon. Secretary whilst expressing his regret to Mrs. Belt Irving 

 ventured to suggest to her that the Corporation of Salisbury would 

 doubtless be only too glad to find space for the pictures in the new 

 Picture Gallery recently added to the Public Library by the munificence 

 of the late Mr. Young. Mrs. Belt Irving thereupon offered the 

 collection to the Corporation, and this valuable series of paintings 

 thus finds a permanent home in Wiltshire. 



The Rev. A. P. Morres' Collection of Birds. On 



June 27th, 1913, Messrs. Waters & Rawlence sold by auction at Salis- 

 bury the collection of birds formed by the late Rev. A. P. Morres, 

 Vicar of Britford, 1868 — 94, and chaplain of St. Nicholas Hospital, 

 1894 — 1900 (cf. W.A.M., xxxi., 245). After his death his collection was 

 purchased by the late Mr. Harcourt Coates, by whose widow it has now 



