COMMUNICATIONS 
TO THE 
MONTHLY MEETINGS, 
18G7. 
Jan. 1.—Me. W. S. Dallas read some Notes on Specimens 
presented to tlie Museum, including examples of Pennatula phos¬ 
phor ea and Aphrodite aculeata. 
Th.e Eev. J. Keneick then read a second notice of the consular 
Denarii added to the Society’s collection, pointing out how theii' 
legends and devices illustrated the religion and the military and 
political history of the Eomans under the Eepublic. 
Maech 5.—The Eey. J. Keneick read the following abstract, 
furnished by Mr. C. Monkman of Malton, of the excavations 
recently carried on in that place. They began at the place where 
the ancient road crossed the fields from the Malton camp to the Old 
Malton settlement, and subsequently to the gates of the Norman 
Priory. The first interment discovered was about two feet below 
the surface, and contained the rim of a Eoman cinerary urn, 
either from the pottery recently discovered at Norton, or from 
another at Crambe-Beck, in the field west of the Eeformatory. 
At seven yards distance another stone cairn was found, which 
had been thirty feet in diameter, formed of slabs of oolitic 
limestone, piled arch-fashion over the interment, the stone work 
being covered with a sort of mortar, and formed into a conical 
shape by the addition of native grit. The body, of which a piece of 
the skull and the bones of the hand and foot remained, had been 
buried on the left side and doubled up. There had been no 
cremation, but there was a fragment of a British urn, and from a 
deposit of charcoal, laid all round the body, a thumb fiint, and a 
flint knife were obtained; also a boar’s tusk and some human teeth. 
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