Notes. 645 



climate has undoubtedly affected the beads found in the barrows, but 

 they appear not to have been glazed, but to be coloured all through their 

 substance, and seem therefore to be comparable, not with the "faience," 

 bnt with the " paste " beads. 



Prof. Flinders Petrie is inclined to think from the appearance of the 

 beads that they may be Mykenean copies of the Egyptian originals, and 

 date about 1200 B.C. The fact that the blue segmented beads from 

 the barrows are of Egyptian origin, or that they must have been copied 

 from Egyptian originals, has been recognised by archaeologists for many 

 years ; in 1908 Sir Arthur Evans pointed to the existence of these 

 beads as affording good, if not conclusive, evidence, that the dates 

 assigned by Dr. Montelius to the Bronze Age in Britain were too early. 

 Proc. Soc. Ant., xxii., 120. 



The somewhat similarly shaped beads that have been described as of 

 ivory, referred to by Prof. Sayce, have now, through the kindness of 

 Professor Sollas, been definitely proved to be of bone, not ivory. 



[Mrs.] M. E. Ccjnnington. 



Roman Wiltshire. Professor Haverfield in his Roman Britain in 



1913, under " Wiltshire " notes the contents of Wilts. Arch. Mag. As 

 regards the Nettleton Scrub Relief, of which he gives an illustration, he 

 says "The relief has been called sepulchral. It is more likely to rep- 

 resent Diana and her hound, and the shape and size of the foundations 

 — though badly recorded — strongly suggest a small temple of the 

 Celtic type .... We may place here a local shrine of Diana, or 

 perhaps of some British goddess identified with Diana and worshipped 

 under her attributes." He sums up the Roman entries in the List of 

 Prehistoric Soman and Pagan-Saxon Antiquities ( W.A.M., xxxviii., 

 1 53) thus : — " The result is interesting. There are about thirty dwell- 

 ing houses of civilised types, some of them plainly comfortable country 

 houses, others farms. There are about thirty Romano -British villages, 

 which, so far as they have been explored, more or less resemble that of 

 Casterley : there are also about forty other village sites which have 

 not been explored and may possibly be similar, and lastly there are 

 some forty-five find spots, chiefly of coins. If towns are awanting 

 within the actual limits of Wiltshire — for Sorbiodunum (Old Sarum) 

 was a tiny place — there were two, Cirencester and Bath, only just out- 

 side. So we get a clear picture of this corner of Roman-Britain— a 

 rural district with well-to-do landowners, a good supply of farms, and 

 a population of peasants dwelling in villages." 



General Henry Shrapnel, R.A. The Field of October 3rd, 



1914, quoted in Wiltshire Times, October 17th, contained an illustration 

 of the entrance gates of Midway Manor, near Bradford-on-Avon. The 

 gate pillars are crowned with pyramids of shrapnel shells in their 

 original spherical shape, prior to the introduction of rifled guns. The 

 General, who was the inventor of the shell which bears his name, as 

 well as of several other appliances connected with guns and gun- 

 mountings, only received a pension of £1200 a year for life, though he 



