Early in March this year, shepherds reported to the Forest Department that they had found a cave, with paintings, on the ancient site of Salamis, Famagusta District. This information was passed to the Museum, for whom I inspected the place. All that was then visible was a large hole in the sand, about 15 ft. deep and 6 ft. wide, which led into a narrow shaft opening on to a round chamber; this was full, nearly to the top, with sand and rubbish. The paintings and upper inscriptions (pl. XI, 2) were all visible, and it was possible to crawl through to the second chamber, which was practically clear.

In pursuance of its policy of making small exploratory excavations in as many as possible of the prehistoric sites near Brighton, the Brighton and Hove Archaeological Club examined the earthworks on Thundersbarrow Hill during the spring of 1932. This was very largely made possible by generous contributions from numerous individuals as well as from the Sussex Archaeological Society, in addition to which valuable assistance was rendered by Mr. G. P. Burstow, Mr. B. C. Hamilton, Mr. G. Holleyman, Mr. J. D. M. Stuart, and Miss T. Hawkins, in digging, surveying, and washing pottery. Thanks are also due to the land-owner, Mr. F. S. C. Bridger of Hove, and to the tenant, Captain Torr of Little Buckingham, Shoreham, for permission to carry out the work.

The pottery described in the present paper is that found during the excavation of the site of a small Romano-British settlement on Thundersbarrow Hill in Sussex. The work was carried out by Dr. E. C. Curwen in the spring of 1932, and is described by him in the preceding paper.

The existence of the Coleshill helm had been a mystery for so long that its rediscovery by the Duke of Rutland, who exhibited it before the Society on 24 November 1932, was quite unexpected (pls. XXI, XXII).

In his elegant prospectus to the four volumes of his Concilia, issued in 1733 in order to obtain subscriptions for the great enterprise, David Wilkins, once a penniless Prussian orientalist, now Archdeacon of Suffolk, has included a complete list of contents. He has affixed, he tells us, asterisks to each document in the list, indicating its source; one if it came from Spelman's Concilia, two if it hailed from Archbishop Wake's own collections, three if it was drawn from his own. This starring is adopted in the prefatory list of contents at the beginning of each volume of the Concilia. In a recent paper the present writer was able to identify the Archbishop's collections as vols. ccciv–cccxxxix in the Wake Archives at Christ Church, Oxford. He pointed out there that Wake's design had been to augment his volumes of transcripts and extracts originally made for his State of the Church and the Clergy of England (1703) with a view to a new and revised edition of Spelman's Concilia. Wilkins's own collections, for many years at Leeds Castle before they passed into the Phillipps Library, were sold with the Fairfax papers in 1898, and nothing has been heard of them since; but Spelman is with us, in two solid volumes of print, and we have among Wake's letters direct testimony to show that these two volumes (the second compiled by Dugdale) served as the basis for Wilkins, when, on the Archbishop's instructions, he set out to augment and correct that valuable text for the new edition of the Concilia.