L46 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 



occupied a foremost position in the place, and as a kindly country 

 gentleman he won much respect. Obit, notices, N. Wilts Herald, 

 Nov. 18th ; Devizes Gazette, Nov. 17th and Nov. 24th, 1898. 



William Hall, died Aug. 30th, 1898, aged 82. Buried at Christ Church, 

 Swindon. - Born at Longford, Ireland. He entered the service of the 

 G.W.R. as clerk in 1840, at Swindon, and rose to be the chief accountant 

 of the Locomotive Department. Married, 1846, a daughter of John, and 

 sister of James, father of Richard Jefferies. Obit, notice, N. Wilts 

 Herald, Sept, 2nd, 1898. 



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Excavations in Cranborne Chase near Hu slim ore, 

 on the borders of Borset and Wilts, 1893— 

 1896, By Lieutenant- General Pitt Rivers, 

 B.C.I*., F.R.S., F.S..A, Inspector of Ancient 

 Monuments in Great Britain, &c. Vol. IV. 

 Printed Privately. 1898. 4to. pp. ix., 30, and 242, 



with 84 full-page plates and plans, 33 cuts in the text, and 32 double- 

 page relic tables, &c. 



This is the fourth volume of the records of the great works of ex- 

 cavation which General Pitt Rivers has for years been carrying on, on 

 the borders of Dorset and Wilts, and it yields to neither of its predecessors 

 in the admirable fulness with which every site excavated, and every object 

 discovered thereon has been planned, figured, and described. The first 

 30 pages contain the General's address to the Archaeological Institute at 

 Dorchester, in 1897, which has already been issued separately and noticed 

 (vol. xxix., p. 345) in this Magazine. Then follows the description of 

 the Excavation of the South Lodge Camp, Rushmore Park, the first 

 part of which has already been printed in our Magazine (vol. xxvii., 

 pp. 206 — 222). It is here amplified by accurate descriptions and drawings 

 of all the objects found during the excavation of the camp— a small 

 rectangular one — which the General has proved to have been of the Bronze 

 Age. There is also added a note and illustration of a pit on the slope of 

 the hill near the camp, in which portions of a skeleton were found, and 

 a chipped flint celt. The General regards the pit as having been ex- 

 cavated for a dwelling in the Bronze Age, and subsequently filled up — 



