Our 225th Anniversary finds the Society making steady progress with the undertakings to which we have set our hands, and in no lack of material for future enterprise. Our financial position, through the care and foresight of our Treasurer, may be considered sound, though we have all too little to devote to the various researches on which we are engaged. Of our normal and permanent activities it is not necessary for me to speak: the session with its round of papers and exhibitions has brought many valuable contributions to our journals, and if we have no single objects this year quite in the same class as the Easby crossshaft and the Winchester bowl, we have nothing to complain of. Our capital enterprises, the excavations at Richborough and the joint excavations at Colchester and St. Albans, have fully maintained their standard of accomplishment, and the watching of recently exposed sites in London has preserved records of the earlier levels which now from year to year are being entirely obliterated by modern processes of building. I am particularly glad to see, in Mr. Dunning's work under the Esher Studentship and in the researches of Dr. Fox and Mr. Radford atKidwelly, the notable progress made in our knowledge of the dates and provenance of medieval pottery. The next few years should mark a substantial advance in what has hitherto been a neglected subject.

The mound lies on the south bank of the Haliakmon at the point where the modern road from Macedonia to Thessaly crosses the river by an iron bridge built by the Turks in 1912 (figs. 1 and 2). Except for slight traces of occupation in Byzantine and Turkish times the site seems to have been derelict since the early Bronze Age, its strategic equivalent being at one time the fortress (of uncertain date) that crowns the hill immediately north of the bridge, and, at another, the Byzantine castle above Sérvia that commands the entrance to the Sarardáporo pass and the road to the south. East-west communications past the site cannot have been considerable at any time, since north-eastwards the river, after flowing past the mound, soon enters a rocky and impassable gorge, from which it emerges only at Verria some forty kilometres distant.

The existence of ancient pottery sites between the tide lines on the Lincolnshire Coast, north of Skegness, has long been known, but references to them in literature are scanty. The lack of detailed knowledge about them is due to the unusual difficulties which confront the would-be investigator. In the first place they lie buried under six or eight feet of marshland clay. Away from the coast itself they are to be seen only where drains dug to this or to greater depths happen to cut through them. This is naturally a rare occurrence. Along the coast, however, exposures are more common, for there the erosive action of the sea is slowly removing the clays and bringing the pottery sites to view at mid-tide level. The same process unfortunately also removes the material of the sites. Opportunities for investigations are therefore fleeting.

I visited the briquetage sites of the Lincolnshire coast, described by Professor Swinnerton, on many occasions during the years 1906 to 1909. On one visit, which was in September 1907, I chanced to see, in a hollow of the shifting sands, the remains of a group of timber structures on the northern side of Ingoldmells Point. There was a considerable number of what appeared to be wooden hut-circles, and I thought that it might be the prehistoric village connected with the briquetage industry.

Recently, Mr. Roger Notcutt of Woodbridge showed me a beautiful flint implement (figs, 1, 1 a, and 1 b), and it is through his kindness that I am able to describe it. The specimen was found when spreading out a large mass of material carted to the seaplane station at Felixstowe for making a football ground, and this material was derived from the making of a new road in the eastern part of the town. The flint blade contains in its interstices, on both faces, remains of an easily recognizable reddish sandy loam, and this loam is present over a wide area beneath the thin surface humus in the district of Felixstowe where Looe Road is situated. I have visited the site of this highway, and have compared the loam there exposed with that attached to the implement. This comparison shows that the deposits are, so far as an examination with a high-power lens is concerned, identical. The flint blade has attached to its surfaces small patches of what appears to be manganese, and the sandy loam present at Looe Road contains similar small inclusions. There cannot therefore remain much doubt that the implement was derived from the sandy loam. This deposit represents, probably, the upper part of the Red Crag, relaid by wind action. The loam rests upon the latter bed, and the site of the find is on a low plateau bordering the North Sea and lying at a height of about 50 ft. above O.D.

Close to the hamlet of Woolsthorpe (the birth place of Sir Isaac Newton), in the parish of Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, on Thursday, 21st January 1932, the miners quarrying ore for the Frodingham Iron & Steel Co. unearthed a remarkably perfect furnace or bloomery of the Roman period. In shape it was box-like, roughly but carefully hand-moulded of grey indurated clay of the local Upper Lias formation; a fragment of an ammonite fossil was found in a crack. The length was nearly 3 ft., the upper or north-west end was about 22 in., and the lower or south-east end about 24 in. in width. The top was practically level and flat, but the bottom dipped, slightly from the northwest end for about 21 in., then very sharply, so that the depth increased from 15 in. at the north-west end to 21 in. at the other. The sides were irregular, about 6 in. thick at most, and in the middle of each was a tuyere hole, some 6 in. in diameter, sharply splayed externally. The ends were open; the north-west one was evidently the charging, and the other the tipping end. The actual bottom was only about half an inch thick of the same clay, but below this were 3 or 4 in. of a different bluish clay and under it some apparently partly burned oolitic limestone brought from near by. The natural soil is the ironstone whose quarrying led to the discovery of the furnace (pl. XLIV, fig. 1).

The question discussed in this paper arose in the course of a review of the first volume of the Registrum Antiquissimum, a work which has given a fresh impetus to medieval studies. For the first time in England the attempt is being made to print in full the whole archives of a medieval cathedral. The greater part of volume i is taken up with the fine collection of royal charters to the year 1189, the texts of the originals (where they survive) being in each case collated with those in the cartulary. Most if not all of the original charters were printed more than twenty years ago by the Rev. H. E. Salter, who pointed out that seven of those granted by Henry II between 1155 and 1165 must all have been written by the same scribe. These seven charters are not interconnected (save perhaps two of them): they grant, or confirm the grant of, various rights and of separate properties; they were issued at different times and from places as far apart as Windsor and Rouen. Nothing is common to them all but the script in which they are written.

The site of the following discovery is a gravel-pit owned by Mr. George Young on the west side of the Fosse Way, midway between Slaughter Bridge and Stow Bridge, and 1½ miles NNE. of Bourton-on-the-Water. In the course of digging, during the past few years, a series of circular ditches has been observed in the gravel on three sides of the pit. Unfortunately it has not been possible to plan the ditches, of which there seem to be three. Recently a ditch was cleared out for about a quarter of its length, and appeared to have a diameter of about ioo ft. The ditch was V-shaped, 6 to 6½ ft. wide and 3 to 5 ft. deep, with a stiff red clay filling, in the upper part of which were embedded some oolite stones. The stones occurred over the middle of the ditch or towards its inner side, and may possibly have once lined the sides of the ditch, and slipped out of position as the ditch filled up. A section of the ditch with the stones is shown in pl. LIII, fig. 1, taken after the top soil, about 12 in. deep, containing late Roman pottery, had been cleared away.