638 Notes. 



Oaksey, Roman Pottery. Mr. F. Gibbons, in a letter to the 

 Wilts and Gloucester Standard, reprinted in ^Wiltshire Gazette, May 21st, 

 1914, mentions the occurrence in a ploughed field at Oaksey Common, 

 at the foot of Flistridge Hill, of a great quantity of fragments of 

 Roman tile and brick — of which 'some are vitrified and twisted or 

 cracked in the burning — from which he suggests that this is the site 

 of a kiln. The fragments are said to extend over several fields. 



Excavations by Mr. H. St. Cr. Gray, at Avebury, 

 1914. The following amounts were contributed by members of the 

 Wiltshire Society to this work in 1911. The money was not expended 

 until this present year : — 

 d. 



J. U. Powell 

 Capt. Jenner 

 J. E. Ward 





£ 



s. 



d. 



Lord Lansdowne 



5 











Lord Fitzmaurice 



5 











W. Heward Bell 



2 



2 







Sir Prior Goldney, 









Bart. 



2 











A. W. N. Burder 



1 



1 







F. H. Goldney 



1 











£ s. 



d. 



1 







10 



6 



10 







18 4 



6 



CrOSS at Woodford restored. With reference to this the 

 Rev. S. F. Handcock, Vicar of Wilsford with Woodford, writes on 

 December 15th, 1913, that the only original stones of the cross as it 

 appears at present are the square base and the lower part of the shaft, 

 nearly 2ft. in length. This latter was found in a villager's garden and 

 had been set up many years ago as a sundial. The socket stone was 

 found in the churchyard, where the cross probably stood. The three 

 present steps are formed of old stones from the village, or from 

 Chilmark. The head, a copy of Tisbury Churchyard Cross, was cut 

 from the old base stone of the Woodford Font, the hole through the 

 centre of it was the font drain. An illustration from a photograph 

 appeared in the Salisbury Times in 1913. C. V. Goddakd. 



Roman Villa at Bromham examined by Mr. Money, 

 September — October, 1840. 



" Whetham, Sept. 30th, 1840. 

 " The discovery took place about fifty years ago on the removal of an 

 old hedge by the road side and the pavement was opened (not for the 

 first time) by Sir R. C. Hoare in the year 1810. This interesting relic 

 has certainly never before been investigated to the present extent as is 

 proved by my discovery of sepulchral urns, etc., which, had the foun- 

 dations of the building been traced beyond the pavement, could never 

 have escaped the spade of previous operators." J. S. Money, Wiltshire 

 Independent, Oct. 1st, 1840. 



" This interesting relic of antiquity is well worthy a visit, the foun- 

 dations of an extensive building have been uncovered and three 



