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Donations to the Museum and Library. 



By Mr. Cunnington, Brixton : — Speoimen of the original turf from the base 

 of Silbury Hill ; taken from the centre of the hill when opened by the Archae- 

 ological Institute in 1849. Large polished slab of Septariuro, from the 

 Oxford Clay, Trowbridge. Slab of Forest Marble with ripple marks, Malmes- 

 bury. Two Masses of fossil Coral, from the Coral-rag of Steeple Ashton. 

 Ammonites rostratus, from Upper Green Sand, Devizes. Polished slab, 2 ft. 

 in diameter, of Calamophyllia radiata, a coral, from the Great Oolite, Brad- 

 ford-on- Avon. Portion of fossil fish — Lepidotus — from the Drift at Melksham. 

 Perforated spout of Roman Vessel found near "Wans House. The following 

 articles found in digging on Oldbury Hill : — a bronze ring-dial ; a bronze 

 penannular brooch ; bronze armillee ; bone implements ; two bronze celts ; 

 bronze gouge ; fragments of ancient British pottery ; whetstones ; iron arrow- 

 head ; spear-head and other iron implements ; circular pig of iron ; horns 

 and bones of Roebuck ; horns of Bos longifrons ; tusk of Boar, &o. Roman 

 loom-weight, found at Westbury Iron Works. Spear, ploughed up on 

 Roundway Hill. Tappa-beater, from the Society Islands, Iron wedge used 

 for breaking up sarsen stones, found at Avebury. 



By E. T. Stevens, Esq. : — Model, to soale, of some of the ancient pit-dwellings 

 at Fisherton, Salisbury. 



The following have also been received: — Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries, 

 Lond., Vol. v., Nos. 2 and 3. Journal of the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, 

 1867 — 1868, six parts. Archaeologia Cantiana, Vols. 8 and 9. Transactions 

 of the Essex Archaeological Society, Vol. 1. Part 1. The Reliquary, No. 58. 

 Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland, 

 Nos. 17 to 20. Smithsonian Report for 1872. 



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