The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine

Excursion to Mere and Maiden Bradley, in Wiltshire. April 20th-26th. Easter, 1916. Report by Dr. B. Pope Bartlett and John Scanes. (Reprinted from Proceedings of Geologists' Association, vol. xxvii., pt. 3. 1916).

Pamphlet, 8vo, pp. 117-134. A folding "Geological map of the country around Mere, S. W. Wilts, and N. Dorset," shows the Great Gault running across the country from west to east immediately south of West Knoyle, Charnage Hill, Mere, Zeals House, and Bourton.

There are photos of "Section in the Cornstone Beds, Basement Bed of Lower Chalk, Lower Pit, Search Farm"; "View from Search Farm (E. of Stourton) showing line of the Great Gault and its topographical effect"; "Blackhill Quarry (W. of Longbridge Deverill)"; "Dead Maid Quarry (W. of Mere)"; "Baycliffe Quarry"; "Charnage Lime Kiln Quarry"; and sections in the text of "Dead Maid Quarry"; "Upper Cretacous Beds at Norton Ferris" (E. of Kilmington); and "Maiden Bradley Quarry." Mr. Scanes dwells especially on the transfer of what used to be called "The Warminster Upper Greensand," with its remarkable assemblage of fossils, from the Upper Greensand (Selbornian stage), to the base of the Lower Chalk (Cenomanian stage), a transfer chiefly due to Mr. Scane's own researches, by which the Upper Greensand is deprived of 95 per cent. of its accepted fauna. Incidentally he mentions that Shearwater Lake was formed about a century ago by drowning old workings for brickmaking from the Gault. He also pointed out that Baker, the fossil collector, obtained a large number of his specimens of the so-called "Warminster Upper Greensand " type from Maiden Bradley Quarry, and that these were taken to Warminster and sold as "Warminster Upper Greensand fossils." The various strata seen in the exposures visited are carefully described, and their characteristic fossils mentioned. Wolverton Cave, S. W. of Zeals House, was visited, "an excavation of uncertain age, but undoubtedly made for the purpose of obtaining building stone from the tough Glauconitic Greensand Stone."

A Map of Ancient Sites in the New Forest, Cranborne Chase and Bournemouth District. By Heywood Sumner, F.S.A. [1923].

Folded in case. 23 in. × 16in. Price, mounted, 7s. 6d.; unmounted, 48. 6d. net. Round barrows, long barrows, defensive camps, dykes, pastoral enclosures, Romano-British villages, Roman villas, pottery kiln sites, Roman finds, and Norman castles are all distinguished on the map by appropriate symbols. Roman roads are also marked, as well as the boundaries of Cranbourne Chase and the New Forest, and letters on the Map refer to a series of the chief authorities on the antiquities, of which a list is given in one corner. The area of the map is of course for the most part in Dorset and Hants; but the whole of the southern border of Wilts from West Dean to Shaftesbury is contained in the northern portion. It is needless to say that with Mr. Heywood Summer's beautiful lettering the map is good to look at as well as extremely valuable to anyone who wants to know at a glance what the antiquities of the district are and where to find them. It will be of great use to all archæologists.

ADDITIONS TO MUSEUM AND LIBRARY.

Museum.

Presented by REV. C. F. BURGESS: Bones, human and animal, found by Boy Scouts in a cleft? or cave? at Slaughterford, 1922. MR. ALFRED STRATTON, of Overton, and MRS. BLYTH: A spring gun, which belonged to the late Mr. Alfred Stratton, of Rushall.

PROF. W. M. FLINDERS PETRIE: Fragments of deer horn picks and flints found in excavations in Silbury, Aug.,

1922.

MR. G. W. GODMAN: Polished flint celt found on down a mile west of Urchfont Hill.

REV. E. H. GODDARD: Polished flint celt from Maddington.
"Muddlers fork" used in S. Wilts (Chilmark) in building
"mud" walls.

REV. C. V. GODDARD: Large-headed nail for wheel instead
of tyre, from Chilmark. Medieval iron knife blades and
meat hook, from old site at Baverstock. Wooden tinder
box with its actual accessories, irons, flints, sulphur
matches and tinder, used in S. Wilts until 1908 by an
old woman who had never used ordinary matches.
MISS MARIA COWARD; Objects collected by her father, the
late Mr. Richard Coward, of Roundway. A small
socketed and looped bronze spear head, two bronze
awls, a bronze ring, shale ring found in urn in a barrow
on the down above Calstone, bronze Roman spring
brooch with T-shaped head, two iron knife blades?
handle and upper part of ewer-shaped bronze vessel,
Roman?

The Library.

Presented by MR. W. HEWARD BELL: Two sketches of Inglesham Church. THE COMPILER, REV. E. H. GODDARD: MS. collections for the Bibliography of the Writings of Wiltshire Authors, arranged alphabetically, and the sets of drawers containing them. "N. Wilts Church Magazine" for six years. Twenty-five Wilts photographs.

"The

THE AUTHOR, MR. O. G. S. CRAWFORD, F.S.A.:
Andover District, an account of Sheet 283 of the One-
Inch Ordnance Map." 1922.

MRS. STORY MASKELYNE: "Bristol Diocesan Review" for
1922. Sale Catalogue of the Story Maskelyne Collection
of Ancient Gems.

THE AUTHOR, REV. H. G. O. KENDALL, F.S.A., "Scraper
Core Industries in North Wilts." 1922. Reprint from
Proc. Prehist. Soc. of East Anglia.

REV. C. V. GODDARD: Old document re Thomas Goddard,
of Sarum. 1712.

Presented by MAJOR G. J. BUXTON: A large parcel of old deeds connected

with Little Park, in Wootton Bassett.

THE AUTHOR, MR. J. F. JACKSON: Reprint of paper on
"Jurassic Chronology." 1922.

CAPT. B. H. CUNNINGTON: "Scheme for the Administration
of the Legacy given for the benefit of the Poor of Devizes
by the Will of the late Frank Simpson, Esq." 1923.
THE EDITOR, REV. P. H. DITCHFIELD, F.S.A.:
"Pro-
ceedings of the Congress of the British Arch. Assoc. at
Bath. 1922."

THE AUTHOR, MR. E. H. STONE, F.S.A.: Stonehenge ;
Concerning the Four Stations." 1923. "The Age of
Stonehenge," from the Antiquaries' Journal. 1923.
An accurate Plan of Stonehenge based on Prof. Petrie's,
brought up to date. 1922.

THE AUTHOR, MR. W. MAURICE ADAMS: "Wolfhall
Memories,"
"2 vols. of mounted cuttings from papers.

THE AUTHOR, MR. HEYWOOD SUMNER, F.S.A.: A Map
of Ancient Sites in the New Forest, Cranborne Chase,
and Bournemouth Districts."

REV. H. E. KETCHLEY: Six photographs of Biddestone.
THE AUTHOR, MRS. SOPHIA MURDOCH: "Records of the
Speke Family of Jordans, Somerset." 1923. 4to.
THE AUTHOR, REV. E. RHYS JONES: "John Rose," of Ames-
bury (excerpt from Amesbury Parish Mag., Oct., 1922).
THE AUTHOR, CANON J. M. J. FLETCHER: “The Black
Death in Dorset." Dorset Nat. Hist. and Field Club
Trans. 1922.

THE CURATOR, MR. F. STEVENS, F.S.A.:

"Annual Report

of the Salisbury, S. Wilts, and Blackmore Museums for 1921-22."

THE AUTHOR, MR. J. SCANES: "Excursion to Mere and
Maiden Bradley, April 20th-26th, Easter, 1916." Re-
print from Proc. of Geologists' Assoc.

MR. A. D. PASSMORE: Photographs of Braydon Lane Toll
Board, Longdean Stone Circle, Silbury Excavations,
Hangman's Stone, and many others.

THE REV. R. W. BRADFORD: A large folio blank scrap book.
THE AUTHOR, MRS. E. M. RICHARDSON : "The Lion and
the Rose. The Great Howard Story. Norfolk Line
957-1646; Suffolk Line, 1603-1917." 1923. 2 vols. 8vo.,
MR. H.W. DARTNELL: Amesbury Parish Magazine," 1922.
Wilts Illustrations, &c.