] 16 Discovery of Two Graves cut in the solid Chalk Bock. 



Indeed, as undoubted fragments of a Saxon Church have been dis- 

 covered during the present restoration ; and as the excavation of a 

 sufficient receptacle for the corpse from the solid chalk seems but 

 a simple process ; moreover as — so far as has been ascertained — 

 no special period is assigned by our writers on such subjects for 

 burials in the living rock excavated in some degree to the shape of 

 the corpse, there is no reason why the date may not be pushed back 

 several centuries before the age proposed above. 



The Editor cannot refrain from calling attention to the fact, how 

 much of antiquarian interest may be noted and rescued from oblivion, 

 during the restoration of old village Churches, by a careful and 

 diligent examination on the part of the incumbent or other in- 

 telligent inhabitant; but then he must be on the constant look-out 

 for fragments, which are otherwise soon cast aside or buried by the 

 workmen : and he must have a reverential love of ancient work, or 

 lie will be disposed to pass over as rubbish what is oftentimes 

 precious. Such, indeed, is the case at Broad Hinton ; where the 

 interesting old Church, so famous for its remarkable monuments, is 

 now undergoing very careful restoration ; not in the destructive 

 hap-hazard way in which so many of the village Churches of 

 England have been spoiled, but in that conservative spirit of pre- 

 servation of all that is old which admits of being preserved, which 

 delights the heart of the archaeologist, too often, alas ! having cause 

 to mourn over the so-called restoration of Churches.] 



H. F. BULL, Printer and Publisher, 4, Saint John Street, Devizes. 



