The excavations at Verulamium inaugurated by the Research Committee of this Society were continued a second season from 9th July to 31st August 1956. They were far more extended than had been planned, for shortly before the start news was received that work on the new road was expected to begin early in 1957, much earlier than had been anticipated. It became necessary, therefore, to double the scale of operations in order that no major site should remain unexplored. Accordingly up to thirty-one paid labourers were employed and the maximum number of helpers at any one time was eighty-five. The sum of £2,520 was expended, of which the Ministry of Works subscribed £800. On a site so extended and so divided by hedges and modern traffic, the direction of the dig would have been impossible without skilled assistance; twelve site supervisors were thus in all employed.

In 1948 the ruined Arab town, sixty-five miles north of Mombasa, known as Gedi was declared a National Park, and an archaeologist was appointed as Warden of the Royal Gedi National Park and the Coastal Historical Sites of Kenya. In the ensuing eight years dangerous trees were cut down, crumbling walls were consolidated, and the fallen rubble round the principal buildings was removed. Gedi is now presented to the world as a place of interest and public resort. Excavations were carried out to discover when it was built, and by whom, and the way of life of its inhabitants. Excavations were also undertaken at a number of other sites to recover the history of the coast of Kenya (pl. XII). From these excavations it has been proved that from the thirteenth century there were extensive Arab or Arab-African settlements all down the coast of Kenya. The extent to which the East African coastal culture of the later middle ages can be regarded as truly ‘Arab’ is still undecided. I am beginning to think that there is a tendency to overstress, or to assume, a state of ‘arabism’ in provincial towns, such as Gedi and Ungwana, which never existed. These towns from their foundation would have comprised a mixed population which had come from the older settlements in Somalia. This mixed population would have contributed Hamitic, Bantu, Persian, Indian, and perhaps Indonesian elements to the predominantly Arab culture of East Africa.

Thirty-two fragments of this rare variety of Roman provincial pottery are illustrated in this paper. In England they are distributed from Southampton and Cirencester to York, London, and Colchester. On the Continent a cup was found at Rottweil (no. 14), and Déchelette recorded numerous examples found in France, in particular at Lezoux in Central Gaul.

This kiln was first discovered in 1931 when Messrs. Hughes erected the Bedford Garage on the site of the former Blue-Coat School (St. John's Hospital) in the upper part of the city. The architect, the late Mr. Harbottle Read, was interested in the structure and arranged that it should be preserved in a pit, 4 ft. 6 in. square, beneath the new concrete floor and covered by heavy iron covers. In this way it survived the bombing of Exeter in 1942 when the garage and much else in the area was destroyed. In 1955 when Messrs. Hughes's rebuilding was due to start, the city surveyor, Mr. J. Brierley, invited me to make a record of the kiln before it was finally removed.

All existing accounts of these windows are based on the notes by Mr. C. Winston printed in 1853 with the other communications made to the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland at Bristol in 1851. Most compilers have extracted their material from Leversage and Taylor's Illustrated History of Bristol Cathedral, the pertinent parts of which, including the colour-plates and heraldic descriptions, were composed by Mr. Leversage between 1851 and 1854 on the basis of Mr. Winston's paper.