In a recently published paper the conclusion was reached that Stonehenge was built at different periods, and that the Aubrey circle with the bank and ditch represent an older monument. In conclusion it is said ‘that Stonehenge was built after the Aubrey circle is certain’. There is, however, evidence that leads to a different theory, and this being so, it is desirable that it should be stated; otherwise it might appear that those interested agreed with the conclusion, or at least had no evidence to the contrary. A fact used to support the two-date theory is that the end of the ditch overlaps the avenue. There is general agreement that this ditch was levelled and obliterated on the surface in order that it should not obstruct the avenue. The critical point is when this filling-up took place. According to the two-date theory it was only when the later Stonehenge. was built, and therefore a long time after the ditch was first dug. But if the evidence from the excavation is carefully examined it becomes plain that this part of the ditch must have been refilled almost immediately after it was made.

This paper is mainly intended to be read as supplementary to ‘Roman London; Its Initial Occupation as evidenced by early types of Terra Sigillata’, by Mr. T. Davies Pryce and Dr. Felix Oswald (Archaeologia, lxxviii), and as emphasizing the conclusions reached in that paper by furnishing some additional examples of the Tiberio-Claudian and Claudian styles of decoration found in London. Mr. Davies Pryce has very kindly read the proofs, and suggestions made by him have been incorporated.

The northern end of the Isle of Man is a low plain, a legacy of the Ice Age, consisting of boulder clay, sands, and gravels, bordered round the coast by a range of sandhills rising from 100 ft. at the break made by the Lhen to over 300 ft. where they cluster around the little village of Kirk Bride. The mouth of the Lhen at a distance of five miles from the foot of the hills, the pre-glacial coastline of the Island, is the reputed landing-place of the Scandinavian settlers who came sailing down from the western isles of Scotland; and for their small and shallow vessels the gravel beach, still known by their name of ‘the Ayres’, was admirably adapted.

Since Sir John Evans read his paper on ‘Discoveries of Stone Implements in Lough Neagh’ before the Society in January 1867, the older flint industry of the Lower Bann valley has come to possess a full literature. Much of that literature includes some reference to the characteristic implements found from time to time within the beds of diatomaceous earth along the river's ancient flood-level, but the many papers on the subject fail curiously to discuss the clue afforded by these finds to the age of this widely known culture. It is true that in 1909 Mr. Wilfred Jackson, in the course of a report on the diatomite deposits, gave a more particular account of the prehistoric material disclosed in the diggings, but little of value has been contributed to the problem's solution from the geological standpoint.

In the course of the restoration in 1853 of the great church of St. Botolph at Boston in Lincolnshire the floor of the nave was removed and excavation took place with a view to determining the site of a more ancient church thought to have existed before the great nave was built. In the course of these works certain small objects were discovered in the ground, and a list of them is given in the History of Boston by Pishey Thompson, Boston, 1856. One of them, which is preserved in the library over the south-west porch, is a copper disc with Limoges champlevé enamel. It was exhibited before the Society at its ordinary meeting on the 30th January 1930 by the vicar of Boston, the Rev. Canon Hutchinson, at my invitation, as it had attracted my attention when I visited the library in June 1929. It is represented on pl. XIII, and Mr. Thompson, who considered it not of much interest, describes it as the foot of a candlestick of latten with shields of arms and foliage of the fourteenth century. It is possible to differ with him as to the interest of the object, for that appears to be quite considerable. As to its date, it is probably quite early in the fourteenth century, if not at the end of the thirteenth. As to its use, that must in any case be quite doubtful.

The flint implement which it is the purpose of this note to illustrate and describe was found upon the surface of a ploughed field situated on the top of the cliff, immediately to the east of West Runton Gap, Norfolk. It is made from a honey-coloured flint, in places passing into a putty shade with areas of black staining. So far as its form and flaking are concerned, it is a characteristic ovate hand-axe, thickest at about the middle line, and with a wavy cutting-edge extending round nearly the whole of the periphery of the implement. The drawings and section (figs, 1, 1A, and 1B) here reproduced give a clear idea of the general appearance of the specimen, which weighs 5 oz. and measures in greatest length 3 3/16 in., in greatest width 2 5/16 in., and in greatest thickness 1 10/16 in. The flaking is all to be referred to one period, and exhibits a noticeable amount of gloss. The specimen is little, if at all, abraded, and its flake-scars show one or two striations, but no incipient cones of percussion, while in the interstices of both faces are to be seen patches of a highly ferruginous material containing sand, and occasionally a small amount of grey, humus-like substance is to be observed attached to portions of the flaked surfaces.

The two articles here described were exhibited by the kind permission of our Fellow the dean of Westminster. They cannot be said to be recent discoveries, but have never been shown before to the Society; and they possess enough points of interest to warrant publication (pl. xiv).

Early in this century, probably between 1908 and 1912, an Austrian walked into the shop of a London dealer carrying a hamper which contained from 500 to 1,000 roughly-made agate beads. They were all made from the same sort of agate. This was pale grey to pale brown in colour and banded in narrow straight layers, some of which are nearly colourless and transparent. The Austrian said that he had bought them in Somerset, and either he or the dealer suggested that they might have come from the sale of the belongings of an old sea captain. I have not been able to get any confirmation of this. The dealer put a considerable number of these into Stevens's sale room. Some are shown in fig. 1.