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CONTENTS OF VOL. XXIII. 



No. LXIX. 



Relics of Ancient Population on Oldbury Hill, Wilts : By Mr. Cunning- 

 ton, F.G.S 213 



On a Sepulchral Vessel found near Marlborough : By Mr. Cunnington, 



F.G.S 222 



The Churches of Purton and Wanborough : By C. E. Ponting, Esq., 



(Diocesan Surveyor and Architect) 229 



Recent Explorations at Silbury Hill : By Aleeed C. Pass 245 



Notes on the Manor of Aldbourne : by the late P. A. Caeeington, Esq. 254 



Selwood Forest : By the Rev. Canon J. E. Jackson, F.S A 268 



Notes on some Ancient British Skulls in the Wiltshire Museum, Devizes : 

 By J. G. Gaeson, M.D., F.Z.S., Vice-Pres. Anthrop. Inst., London, 



Hon. Corresponding Mem. Soc. Anthrop., Paris 295 



The Church Heraldry of North Wiltshire (Continued) : By Aethur 



SCHOMBEEG 299 



The Wiltshire Compounders : (Communicated by Mr. James Watlen) 314 

 Donations to the Museum, 1887 347 



Illustrations. 



Church of S. Mary, Bishops Cannings, View from the South- West, 1. Church of 

 S. Mary, Bishops Cannings, Wiltshire, Plate I., 2. Church of S. Mary, 

 Bishops Cannings, Wiltshire, Plate II., 3. Plans (Figs. I. and II.) of Stone- 

 Work on Langley Burrell Common, 68 . 



Fig. 1. Diagrammatic Section of the Country from Bagshot to Heytesbury, about 

 sixty miles, 132. Fig. 2. Impressions of the Root of a Palm (?) in a weathered 

 Sarsen in a wall at Abury : Sketched by Col. C. C. King, F.G.S., in 1885, 144. 

 Fig. 3. A piece of Sarsen with sub-parallel and sub-cylindrical rootlets of 

 Palm (?) ; collected by T. Codrington, Esq., C.E., F.G.S., in Wiltshire; in the 

 British Museum (Natural History) ; reduced one-half, 145. Fig 4. A block 

 of Sarsen, with the impression of a tap-root and rootlets of a palm ? In the 

 Museum of Practical Geology, London ; found on Lockeridge Down, near 

 Marlborough, by W, Cunnington, Esq., F.G.S. ; one-half of the natural 

 size, 146. Map of Braden Forest, temp. Henry III., 163. Plan of Barbury 

 Castle, 181. Plan of Binknoll Castle, 190. 



Plan of Oldbury Camp, 214. Bronze Penannular Brooch, found within the camp 

 on Oldbury Hill, in 1858 (full size), 216. Ring-Dial, 219. Funereal Vessel, 

 found near Marlborough, Wilts, 1807, 222. S. Mary, Purton, Wilts, View 

 from the South- West, Plate I., 229. S. Mary, Purton, Wilts, Details of 

 various parts, Plate II., 233. The Church of S. Andrew, Wanborough, Wilts, 

 Plate III., 238. The Church of S. Andrew, Wanborough, Wilts, Plate IV., 

 239. Silbury Hill, Wilts, Plan, 246. Silbury Hill, Wilts -Section, 250. 

 Selwood Forest. Its extent temp. Edw. Ill,, 282. 



