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The Museum Gazette 



This factory was on the margin of a small pool. The raw 

 material must have been brought from the chalk hills nearly 

 ten miles distant. 



Concerning the Keltic pottery it was stated that the urn-field 

 was near Haslemere Town on the watershed at the top of 

 the railway cutting. The Kelts practised cremation and 

 deposited the bones and ashes in urns arranged in " family 

 circles." There was no mound to mark the position of the 

 circle of interments, the circles themselves were sometimes 

 many hundred yards apart. The first discovery of pottery 

 of this date at Haslemere was in November, 1903, when 

 several broken urns and a few accessory vessels were 

 brought to light. Two years later another " circle " of 

 graves was accidentally found. It contained three almost 

 perfect cineraries and many broken ones, also a large 

 number of bowls, paterae, and other accessory vessels 

 which had been placed around the urns. Some of the urns 

 contained flint chips, and one of them yielded the only piece 

 of bronze found, a fragment of a fibula. The find included 

 two pieces of imported Samian ware ; one, a patera, was 

 used as a cover for one of the urns. A large patera of 

 the ordinary dark brown Keltic ware served as a lid for 

 another cinerary. There was no trace of iron. A hole in 

 the bottom of one of the urns had been repaired by inserting 

 a lead plug ; this was a very unusual discovery. The latter 

 half of the first b.c century was mentioned as the probable 

 date of the cemetery. The authors, in conclusion, expressed 

 their indebtedness to the owners of property who had allowed 

 them to dig, and who generously presented the "finds" to 

 the Museum. 



Mortality amongst Shrews. 



We read in Bell's " British Quadrupeds " that "the female 

 shrew brings forth in the spring from five to seven young 

 ones. The nest, which consists of soft herbage, is made in 



