During the winter season of 1927-8 the Joint Expedition of the British Museum and of the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania was engaged upon two distinct pieces of work; at the beginning of the season, for about nine weeks, we continued the excavation of the early cemetery discovered in the previous year, while for the rest of the time the whole gang was employed on the clearing of the interior of the great courtyard building which lies in front of the north-east face of the Ziggurat. Field work started on October 17 and continued until February 18, the average number of men on the pay-roll being 130 for the first half of the time, and 170 for the second half. This year there was no architect with the expedition, for the reason that the plan of the courtyard building had already been made out and for the digging of the cemetery the services of an architect would not be required: otherwise the staff was the same as last year, my wife being responsible for the drawings, the Rev. E. Burrows, S.J., for the inscriptional material, and Mr. M. E. L. Mallowan acting as general archaeological assistant. The extraordinary richness of the discoveries meant even harder work than usual, and it was at times difficult to keep pace with them, but by occasional shifting of the gang from the graves to the courtyard this was made possible, the respite so gained enabling us to catch up temporary arrears: but I owe it to my assistants to express my gratitude for their whole-hearted co-operation. As usual, Hamoudi of jerablus was foreman, and was invaluable; his two sons, Yahia and Ibrahim, served under him as junior foremen, and the former did all the photographic work also.

The generosity of an anonymous benefactor to the Research Fund of the Society enabled further work to be carried out in 1927 on the Findon Park Iron Age village site, which is situated just above the 500-ft. contour on a broad flat southward-sloping ridge one mile to the north of Cissbury. We wished to obtain information as to the range of date of the occupation, and the culture of the inhabitants, additional to that reported in Archaeologia, Ixxvi.

At the close of the description of the site itself in the first report i t was stated that the rise in the level of the trench east of the pit containing Hearth 4 suggested the presence of a causeway beyond. It is now more than doubtful whether the evidence is capable of such interpretation. Just beyond the top of the slope where all signs of the usual cultural layer had disappeared, a fine specimen of a comb and some sherds were found, but after that nothing but occasional flakes of flint and a very few sparse sherds.

The numerous tombs cut on the rocky ground at Malta have been considered, up to the present, to be of Phoenician origin. An attempt was made by later students to classify these rock-cut tombs in three periods, corresponding to the shape of the burial chambers and to the approach to them, mostly a more or less regular shaft.

In the Sutherlandshire Report of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (no. 44), under the parish of Clyne, a short description is given of a chambered cairn on the left bank of the Allt-nam-Ban, a small burn which briskly flows into the eastern side of Loch Brora. The description is dated 25 August 1909, and shows very clearly that when Mr. Alexander O. Curie, then secretary of the Commission, surveyed the cairn on that day, it was already in a much dilapidated condition. I visited the cairn on 27 April 1928, and was shocked to find that the whole of its southern half had been carted away for road-metal, exposing the interior construction with all the distinctness of an orange cut in two. As additional information is thus available with regard to the structure of the cairn, and also because the whole monument will probably disappear within a very short time, I made a careful survey of the cairn, and have pleasure in submitting the following description, along with a plan and photographs.

Sundials belonging to the Anglo-Saxon period have not received much attention from archaeologists, and a complete list of all existing specimens should be of some value; indeed, Professor Baldwin Brown in The Arts in Early England, vol. ii, 1925, says ‘a full list of existing Saxon sundials…is a desideratum’.