The small village of Glozel, commune of Ferrières, is situated about twenty miles south-east of Vichy. No car nor carriage can go farther; you must walk almost a mile, first along a narrow lane, then down a steep hill, till you reach the right bank of a rivulet called Le Vareille, which flows into the Souchon, a tributary of the river Allier. Above the wooded bank of the Vareille, at the foot of the hill, extends a little plateau which was thickly wooded till thirty years ago, when the trees and bushes were cut down. In 1924 the Fradin family, owners of the land, decided to sow there some vegetables, and young Émile Fradin, then a boy of 18, began to dig up the soil. Soon he discovered a brick bearing some regularly distributed cup-marks which aroused his curiosity (he is intelligent, though completely devoid of learning). Fradin showed that brick to a schoolmistress, who was much interested and mentioned it to a schoolmaster; people began to talk about the discovery of ancient remains. Meanwhile, Fradin pursued his work and found an oval building, the soil of which was paved with bricks, one bearing an inscription. The inner walls of that small structure were entirely vitrified by fire. It may have been a (medieval ?) kiln, but that is now difficult to decide, because the visitors almost destroyed the walls before they had been examined by a competent person. As no bones were discovered, it cannot be considered as a tomb.

The country west and south of Quimper in the department of Finistère contains a notable concentration of megalithic monuments. They are of various types and some are quite distinct from the better-known monuments of the region round the Gulf of Morbihan in Southern Brittany. The map (pl. I) shows the distribution of the monuments. It is based largely on a survey of the area undertaken in the summer of 1924. I wish to express my thanks to M. Georges Monot of Pont-l'Abbé for his invaluable assistance and guidance in a country in which good roads are few, and the monuments very difficult to locate. The bulk of the work of excavation, in this area, was undertaken by the late P. du Chatellier towards the end of the last century. Many of the monuments were ravaged before he began operations, and even those found more or less intact were rarely preserved after excavation, so that to-day a large proportion are in a very ruined condition. The reports of excavations are to be found in various Breton periodicals and in the French archaeological journals, especially in the volumes of Matériaux pour l'histoire de l'homme. Du Chatellier also gives a summarized account of his work in Les Époques préhistoriques et gauloises dans le Finistère, second edition, Rennes 1907, which covers the whole of the department. The appendix at the end of this paper, which gives a summarized inventory of the monuments of the region, cites references where possible to the reports of excavations.

That the art of gem- and seal-cutting persisted in Greece during the long and uncertain period of development that preceded the full flower of archaic Greek art has been acknowledged by the accepted classification of certain stones bearing intaglio designs as ‘geometric’. That such stones are not numerous in European collections is due chiefly to their extreme crudity and lack of artistic charm, which give them little worth in the eyes of collectors.

By the term ‘Early Iron Age Pottery from Macedonia’ is here meant pottery of the type found by Casson in the cemetery at Chauchitza, by the French excavators at the Toumba and Table of Sedés, and at the Table of Gona—and which is known from surface-finds in many parts of Macedonia. Much of the pottery from Patelí on Lake Ostrovo seems to belong to this class, but is not yet accessible in any publication.

The geology of Piltdown.—A memoir on the geology of the country near Lewes has just been issued by H.M. Stationery Office, price 2s. 6d., with coloured drift-map separate, price 2s. It has been written for the Geological Survey by Mr. H. J. Osborne White, and contains a sectional diagram of the deposits at Barkham near Piltdown, showing the position of the skull; also a diagram by Mr. F. H. Edmonds showing the slope of the river Ouse and that of the Piltdown terrace about 70 ft. above it. The remains of Eoanthropus are held to be contemporary with the formation of the Barkham gravel in the early Pleistocene; and ‘at present the balance of opinion favours Sir Arthur Smith Woodward's interpretation’ of the individual as belonging to a distinct genus of the Hominidae. Piddinghoe and Rodwell are the only other sites in the area that have yielded palaeolithic implements. The incapacity to spell Cervus elaphus correctly seems to be shared by the official printers (p. 66).