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The Lesser Horseshoe Bat, BMnolophus hipposideros. 



On capturing a bat which had come into the house here (Clyffe Pypard) 

 one night this autumn (1903), I found that it belonged to a species that 

 was quite unknown to me — the " Lesser Horseshoe Bat," distinguished 

 with its congener, the " Greater Horseshoe Bat," by the soft fluffiness 

 of its fur and by the extraordinary leaf-like appendage on its nose. Mr. 

 Meyrick, of Marlborough -College, tells me that the College Natural 

 History Society have no record of its occurrence. I find it stated, how- 

 ever, in Bell's British Quadrupeds, 1837, that "it was first taken by 

 Montagu in Wiltshire in a hollow over a baker's oven, having entered 

 the place through a small fissure, and afterwards in a dark old shed 

 surrounded by high trees, at Lackham, in the same county." 



E. H. GoDDARD. 



Skeletons of Man and Horse at Charnage. On August 



16th, 1903, Mr. A. E. White, of Charnage, Mere, wrote :— " Within the 

 last few days the men in quarrying flint on my down have come across 

 first the skeleton of what appears to be a horse and then no doubt that 

 of a human being. The teeth of the latter are well preserved, but the 

 other bones are brittle, They were found in the trackway leading from 

 Charnage Gorge to the bottom end of Well Bottom, about half way, I 

 should think about 3ft. deep, on the top of the chalk." In answer to a 

 letter asking for further particulars of the discovery, and in particular 

 whether any relics of any kind were found with the bones, Mr. White 

 wrote "I am afraid I cannot give much more information respecting 

 the finding of the skeletons of horse and man on my down. I did not 

 hear of the discovery until after the whole of the bones had been taken 

 out, and I fear there was no real search made. There was no sign of 

 any mound, in fact it was right in a trackway, which no doubt formerly 

 was in constant use. From what I can gather from the quarrymen the 

 human bones were found in a sitting posture." 



Horn an Coins at Great Cheverell. The following note 



appears in the register of the Parish Church at Great Cheverell : — "A 

 parcell (about a gallon) of Roman copper coynes of y e Emperors fro 

 Gordianus to Tacitus was found in y e ffield called y c Sand by E d Hobbs 

 ffebr 17 1695." 



H. E. Medlicott. 



B/Ollian Coins at At WOrth. Nine Roman small brass coins 

 found in a field at Atworth in 1902 have come into the possession of 

 Mr. E. C. Davey, of Bath, who has kindly given the following particulars. 



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