On the Pans Lane Pottery, Devizes. 



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fully believed that young Dodwell grew up a sound man. This Dodwell of the 

 ash tree died about five years ago ; but, as he lived to be 80, his full term of life 

 might be taken by some persons as a proof that the rupture became so far healed 

 as not to seriously interfere with his health or prematurely cut short his years : 

 but there is a much stronger proof of the efficacy of the cure in that the cleft ash 

 sapling grew up into a vigorous tree. 



Perhaps some of your readers may know of other instances which have come 

 under their personal knowledge.* 



E. P. E. 



(Dtt i\t flotterg from f)»tts Jane, 



Presented to the Museum by Mrs. Henry Cunnington, 

 April, 1889. 



IKrjT the time of the formation of the Berks and Hants Ex- 

 tension Railway, a deep cutting was made at Devizes, at 

 that point where the line cuts through the old road to Wick, and 

 which is locally known as " Pans Lane." In making the cutting, a 

 very large quantity of fragments of British, and Romano-British, 

 pottery was turned up, about 3ft. or 4ft. below the surface, and 

 within a comparatively small space of ground ; and also a few other 

 interesting antiquities. There were three or four small urns, one 

 quite perfect, and of a peculiar shape, found with part of a human 

 skeleton ; several ancient coffin nails ; animal bones and teeth ; 

 pieces of deer herns; an iron hatchet and knives; pieces of a 

 mortarhim, and several pieces of Samian ware; and rough British 

 and finer black ware in such large quantities, as to give some warrant 

 for the assumption, that it had once been the site of a potter's work- 

 shop. The microscopic examination of some of the fragments 



• See vol. xiv., p. 323. (Ed.; 



