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Masonic Temple, B.C. 1500." " The Doctor, we understand," says the 

 Southampton Observer, "is a veteran and enthusiastic Freemason, and 

 considers that the key to ancient Masonry which had been lost for so 

 many centuries, has veritably been discovered by himself in England's 

 greatest archaeological gem ; the wonder and mystery of past ages — Stone- 

 henge." 



Pre- Roman Interment at Tilshead. As a man named Kolfe Kyte was, 

 in March, 1897, enlarging a pit near the village of Tilshead, he struck his 

 pick into a human skull, and on trying to remove the earth and stones 

 brought up the leg bones. I visited the place soon after the discovery of 

 the skeleton, and found that it had lain in a pit about 1ft. 6in. deep by 

 2ft. Gin. long and 1ft. 6in. wide. I could find no trace of pottery or worked 

 flints or anything else accompanying the interment, which, from what the 

 finder told me, appears to have been in the contracted posture — the legs 

 drawn up over the body, and an arm across it, the whole covered with very 

 large flints. The skull and the bones were small, and the sutures of the 

 former had come apart. 



C. V. Goddaed. 



Bronze Torques from the Duke Collection. In the note on the sale of 

 the Duke Collection of Antiquities, Wilts Arch. Mag., vol. xxviii., p. 261, 

 the larger of the bronze torques then sold was erroneously said to have been 

 bought by " Mr. Graves." In reality both of the torques were purchased 

 by Gen. Pitt-Rivers. 



Romano-British Settlement on Cold Kitchen Hill. Mr. W. Stratton 

 has presented to the Museum two or three more objects obtained from the 

 surface of the tumulus, or rubbish-heap (?), on Cold Kitchen Hill, found 

 during 1896. They include an extremely perfect bronze Roman fibula with 

 hinged pin, a pair of bronze toilet tweezers, and a portion of a light iron 

 chain of seven or eight links— the links being of figure-of-eight shape. At 

 the same time a bronze coin of Crispus, of a common type, was found, 

 showing that the site was inhabited about A.D. 325. 



Curious Deed at Avebury. The document, a copy of which follows, speaks 

 for itself. It is lodged in our parish chest, where it may have been originally 

 placed for safety. It is engrossed on thick Government paper, and bears 

 three sixpenny stamps. The same seal is impressed against each signature. 

 It is embossed with the figure of a lion on a coronet. It will be observed 

 that there is a blank left for the first name of this Farmers' federation. 

 There is no signature, too, against the first seal. It is impossible to say who 

 was intended to be named here, or why — probably at the last moment — he 

 held back. May he have been the one employer of labour whose leniency 

 in the past had given cause for the federation ? And was it to bring him 

 to their standard of a master's duty that the others suggested this mutual 

 obligation F Anyhow the document is curious and deserves to be recorded. 

 " Know all Men by these presents that we of 



