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THE MUSEUM. 



Presented by Me. T. Leslie : Specimens of Norman pottery, from Wootton 

 Bassett. 



„ Rev. C. Y. Goddard : Specimens of local Roman pottery, from 



Dorchester — for comparison. 

 „ Eev. E. C. Awdry : Ancient key, horseshoe, and halberd-head, 



found at Kington St. Michael. 

 „ Mr. Ballard : Three coins. 



„ Mr. C. W. Cunnington : Fragments of pottery (Romano- 



British ?), from dwelling-pit on Oldbury Hill. This pottery 

 is unlike anything else in the museum. It is coloured red on 

 the outside with some pigment (?), and the ornament is roughly 

 scratched through the red colouring. 



Also a flint pebble which has been used as a hammer or 

 strike-a-light, from the same dwelling-pit. 

 „ Mrs. Brown : Lark glass. This object being placed on a stick 

 in a field is made to revolve on a sunny day by means of 

 strings pulled from a distance ; the larks are attracted by the 

 flashing of the mirrors, hover round it, and are shot. 

 Purchased : Five plain armlets of square and rounded bronze, found near 

 Lake — from Mr. Duke's collection. 

 „ Flat bronze armlet, the outer surface deeply channelled — from Mr. 



Duke's collection. (It has been much cleaned and repaired.) 

 Found near Lake. {Cf. Evans' Bronze Implements, p. 385.) 

 „ A collection of Palaeolithic flint implements from the river gravels 



of Salisbury, collected by the late Mr. C. J. Read. 



THE LIBRARY. 



Presented by Lord Arundel of Wardour : the Early Genealogical History 

 of the House of Arundel, &c, by F. P. Yeatman. 

 „ The Author : The Old Manor-house at South Wraxall, by W. 

 Chitty. 



„ Mr. W. Cunnington, F.G.S. : MS. List of the Heytesbury 

 Collection of Wiltshire Antiquities, belonging to Mr. W. 



Cunnington, F.S.A. Address to Inhabitants of Wilts on 



French Invasion. Framed water-colour copy of a drawing 



of Devizes Market Place in 1804. Beneath the Surface, by 



E. Duke. Old newspapers, &c. 



