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of boulders, of from three to eight inches diameter. About two feet in thickness of earth covered the stones; in the middle of the tumulus was an urn, about two feet high and one foot three inches wide (by the workmen's account), inverted and sunk about six inches into the earth, below the boulders. This urn contained the burnt bones of a very young person, together with bones of one or two small animals; and in or close to the urn was a relic, which, by the workmen's description, was a piece of what is called Kimmeridge Coal-money. A small clay bead was also found, but as no care was taken to preserve the remains, the urn was broken to fragments, and probably other beads were lost. Some of the fragments are in the possession of Mr. Piggot, steward to the Earl of Bradford, and some are in my possession, of the latter of which I send drawings (fig. 4). The urn is figured here (fig. 5) of the size described by the workmen, restored by Sir Henry Dryden; but, as the curve of one of the fragments, at undoubtedly the largest part, gives a diameter of one foot and half an inch only, Sir Henry doubts whether the urn was as much as two feet high. The ornamentation is rude and irregular. There are one or two urns something like this in shape, but not in ornament, figured in Sir R. C. Hoare's beautiful work.

"The circle of stones, referred to in No. 4, is on the north end of Chetham's Close, which is the southerly and highest division of a hill called Turton Heights, lying on the east side of the road from Bolton to Blackburn. The top of this hill is boggy: near the circle is a trigonometrical station, whose altitude is marked on the Ordinance Map, 1075.

"I accompanied Sir Henry Dryden to visit these remains in 1850, and at that time, there remained six stones upright, varying in height from one foot to four feet eight inches, and in width from one foot six inches to four feet, and in thickness from eleven inches to two feet. Judging from the relative distances of those remaining, three stones have been taken away. (See Plate.)

"At eleven feet south-east from the circle is a single stone, and at eighty-two feet south-west is another; and between these two stones is an assemblage of smaller stones only just appearing out of the boggy soil. This circle is about a mile and a half south-west of the Roman Road before mentioned.”

REPORT ON EXCAVATIONS MADE ON THE SITE OF THE ROMAN CASTRUM AT Lymne, in KenT, IN 1850. By CHARLES ROACH SMITH, F.S.A. With Notes on the Original Plan of the Castrum, and on the Ancient State of Romney Marshes. By JAMES ELLIOTT, Junr. London: Printed for the Subscribers to the Excavations.

The public should feel much indebted to Mr. Smith for his indefatigable labours in the cause of Archæology, both in undertaking the work of excavation, and in printing and properly illustrating the result of his successful researches. The present work forms a valuable supplement to his Antiquities of Richborough, Reculver, and Lyme (Archæologia Cambrensis, 1851, p. 170). Among other objects of interest found, were fragments of tiles stamped CL. BR., which he there rendered "Classiarii Britannici, British Classiarii or Marines." The correctness of this explanation is confirmed by the subsequent discovery of an altar with the following inscription:-" ARAM .AVFIDIV | PANTERA | PRAEFECT | CLAS.BRIT. | plained to mean "that Aufidius Pantera, prefect of the British fleet, erected this altar to some deity, probably to Neptune."

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