It might have been thought that after eight campaigns—extending back to 1900 and supplemented by minor investigations—the Palace site of Knossos would have been pretty well exhausted. The work indeed on my first volume about the House of Minos had brought out certain lacunas in the evidence which it was of the first importance to fill in, and the probings that it had been possible to carry out in the period immediately preceding the Great War led me to the conclusion that the site, if seriously attacked, might still be productive of archaeological surprises.

In a brief note, appended to an account of ‘A Burial of the Early Bronze Age discovered at Berden’, Essex, by Messrs. Guy Maynard and G. M. Benton, Mr. A. G. Wright, Curator of the Colchester Museum, raises the question whether the globular-bodied beakers of Lord Abercromby's type A originated in South Britain, and suggests the possibility of approximately contemporaneous landings of the people who introduced the beakers at more than one point on the coasts of Britain. This suggestion is contested by Lord Abercromby himself in a short reply following Mr. Wright's note.

The document printed below has been recently discovered in the muniment room at Dunster Castle, incorporated in a roll of accounts of Sir Hugh Luttrell, who died in 1428. Its presence there is not inexplicable, for Sir Hugh's mother, Lady Elizabeth Luttrell, was sister to Lady Margaret Cobham, wife to Sir John Cobham, styled also ‘Le Sire de Cobham’, both being daughters of Hugh Courtenay, earl of Devon.

The article on Stonehenge that appeared in the January number of the Nineteenth Century demands consideration. The writer, Mr. E. Herbert Stone, after re-stating and defending Sir Norman Lockyer's views, which I shall presently explain, notices ‘some criticisms’, including those of Mr. Arthur Hinks and my own. ‘Rice Holmes’, he says, ‘sets forth the old arguments in favour of the Bronze Age theory, many of which are fallacious … the deservedly high position occupied by Mr. Rice Holmes in the literary world has led some archaeologists, who have not understood the technicalities of the subject, to accept his opinions without question’.

In January 814 Charlemagne died at Aix-la-Chapelle and was there buried on the same day. The event was of staggering importance. The Roman Empire of the West, which the barbarians had overthrown, was remembered even by them as the greatest thing in the world. Theodoric had tried to revive it and failed. It had lain dormant for more than three hundred years and then Charlemagne had apparently succeeded in reviving it, and had signalized the year 800 by being crowned Emperor by the Pope in the church of St. Peter at Rome.

Adjoining the northern boundary of the parish of Eastbourne and extending to the foot of the downs on the west, there is an area of arable land until recently forming part of the Motcombe Farm, part of the property of the Duke of Devonshire. The district was formerly called Northwick, and later Green Street: it was crossed by an ancient way called ‘Green Street Drove’, running east and west. The land has recently been acquired by the Corporation of Eastbourne for the purpose of their housing scheme and for allotments.

The Roman walls and bastions discovered in 1889 and subsequent years under the Norman or medieval earthworks of Cardiff Castle have been described by the late Mr. John Ward, F.S.A., in Archaeologia and Archaeologia Cambrensis. It may be recalled that the remains indicate a quadrangular enclosure some 8½ acres in extent, with central gateways in the north and south sides and with semi-octagonal bastions along the walls. The fort thus corresponds closely in size and general character (though not in detail) with that at Porchester, and clearly represents a westerly branch of the coastal defence system instituted, or at least extended, in the reigns of Diocletian and Constantine I. It stands in the middle of the Monmouthshire-Glamorganshire lowlands where, alone in Wales, Roman civil life developed on a scale sufficiently extensive to require special protection from Irish or Teutonic raiders.

Interesting archaeological remains of the Roman period, including two coffins, were discovered in digging for the foundations of Messrs. J. S. Fry & Sons' new factory and garden city at Keynsham Hams, Somerset, on 1st May 1922. Having heard of the discovery from Mr. J. E. Pritchard, F.S.A., I made arrangements to visit the site on 4th May. Mr. A. Bulleid, F.S.A., joined me during the afternoon and took some photographs. The position is three-quarters of a mile east of the Cemetery and Mortuary Chapel on the Bristol Road, where cut stone, tesserae, tiles, and pottery of the Roman period, indicating occupation, have recently been found.