VOL. XIX. (3) 
LOCAL NOTES 
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LOCAL NOTES 
The 40-acre field gravel-pits at Barnwood, east to and 
adjoining the Irmin Street, have become not merely valuable 
to the owners, Mr and Mrs Clifford, and to the Government 
Munitions Department, but of very special interest to the 
palaeontologist and the archaeologist. I therefore venture 
to record some personal observations. 
In a clear artificial pocket, about six feet beneath the 
present field-level, have been of late unearthed the remains 
of five Romano-British urns and water-jars, of which three are 
nearly perfect. These latter contained, when found, the in- 
cinerated bones of various individuals. No inscription occurred, 
nor are the pots anywise ornamented. The two specimens 
most complete are of dark buff with well-profiled tops. Their 
dimensions are : — 
(i) Height, 6 inches 
Diameter 
at mouth, 5 inches 
at base, 3 inches 
(2) Height, 10 inches 
C at mouth, 4I inches 
^ at base, 3 inches 
(3) Height, 8} inches 
at mouth, 5 inches 
at base, 4 inches 
Diameter 
Diameter 
Doubtless a great number of similar burials lie near both sides 
of this Romano-British road, under the modern gardens and 
orchards, and the vases may well belong to the late second 
century, or later. 
Large fragments of the tusks and of the teeth of Elcphas 
antiquus have been extracted from the 40-acre gravel pit (Barn- 
wood) in the under measure, some nine feet below the present 
