Some years ago Dr. Blackmore discovered, on top of Laverstock Down, a hitherto unknown series of flint tools, turned up by the plough, which he named ‘Rectangular’. He has pointed out that it is in their extreme simplicity, together with constancy to type, that the skill in making them lies; for the manufacturers of these tools chipped flakes of one pattern, with several particular features, by the hundred. Modern practitioners know how many blows have to be given to knock a flake or a block into a required shape, but these people made one kind of tool with some halfdozen strokes, almost unfailingly, over and over again.

In the summer of 1923 several Anglo-Saxon graves were discovered at Emscote, on the right bank of the river Avon, one mile above Warwick, and fifty yards from the south side of the embankment of the Great Western Railway. The remains of five or six interments were found, the bones being very fragmentary and soft. They lay in a thick bed of gravel which has been gradually removed. As soon as Mr. Cleaver, the owner of the gravel-pit, realized that these were ancient interments and the objects probably of some interest, he reported the matter to the Mayor of Warwick (Dr. Hubert Tibbits), who communicated through our Secretary with Mr. John Humphreys, F.S.A., one of the Local Secretaries for Warwickshire. At the latter's request I kept in touch with the excavation work, but by that time all the important objects had been found; since then one more grave has been disturbed, in which only a spear-head was found with the bones. As the gravel-pit on this side is practically exhausted, it seems improbable that any further discoveries will be made in this direction.

In a newly-cultivated field south of Knighton Wood in the parish of Broadchalk are immense quantities of flint artifacts similar to those described in the Antiquaries Journal, v, 158. They were brought to my notice by Col. A. D. Troup, who told me that until recently this piece of land had lain idle probably for centuries. He stated that when the ground was broken up large masses of chipped flints, lying almost in heaps, were conspicuous even from a distance. Even now, after much ‘cleaning’ of the soil, they are so thick over an area of approximately 400 yards by 100 that it is impossible to walk there without treading on four or five with each step. A few years ago I was told that somewhere in the woods near by there were pits the bottoms of which were covered by broken flints, and I had made a note to that effect on my map.

It has been suggested that the comparatively numerous finds of gold in Wiltshire barrows are due to their having been, more or less, on the direct route of the traffic in Irish gold and other objects. On Mere Down, north of Gillingham, a skeleton was found in a grave under a small barrow. With it was a beaker of type B, also a flat, tanged copper dagger, a piece of worked bone, and two gold discs of a well-known Irish type. The surviving disc is very thin, and has embossed upon it an irregular cruciform ornament enclosed within a circle, and a row of very small punch-marks round the edge (fig. 1).

Having had occasion, when in Prague, to meet Professor Ščerbakivskyj and to discuss with him his work at Hontzi, I felt t i should be made known in England, more especially as little has been published from this area since Volkov's papers at the Geneva Congress. Only a short precis is possible of the excavations and illustrations. Although the excavator inclines to a Magdalenian date for the culture, perhaps because it is not typically Aurignacian, one might rather suggest ‘Eastern European Upper Palaeolithic’, which occurs in an area where the Magdalenians —a French folk—never penetrated, although their influence was no doubt felt. This is certainly applicable to Pfedmost and other finds in Moravia which are neither of true Solutre nor La Madeleine culture. It is important for prehistorians to grasp clearly the fact that even at this early time cultures had by no means even a European extension and that different provinces had different cultures, more or less related.

The beautiful gold ring here illustrated (fig. I) was dug up in 1924 at Cannington, near Bridgwater.

The high bezel contains a dark cabochon sapphire held by claws, the sides being ornamented with birds in pierced work. The hoop is engraved with the Angelic Salutation in capitals which include uncial forms ; it is flat sided, the surfaces sloping away to the outer edge, which is enriched by a pearled band and a raised quatrefoil at the back. The shoulders have monsters' heads in relief.