Whitehawk Camp, situated on the Brighton Race-course, is one of the eight proved neolithic camps of ‘causewayed’ type in Britain. It consists of four concentric oval rings of interrupted ditches, situated on a saddle between two slight eminences on the back of a north–south ridge on the eastern edge of the town of Brighton. The outermost ring (fourth ditch), which is deficient on the east where the hill falls very steeply into Whitehawk Bottom, encloses about 10 acres, while the inner ring encloses less than two. About half the circuit of the two inner rings, and considerable stretches of the two outer lines, have been levelled or otherwise damaged by the formation of the race-course and by allotment gardens. The general plan (pl. xii) is the result of a careful survey by the writer in 1928, when the vanished portions of the ditches were to a large extent recovered by percussion of the ground—a method which was not, however, of any avail in the allotment gardens where there was no turf, and the ‘boser’ simply sank into soft soil which damped the vibrations.

Flint implements were first discovered in the working of the sand-pit immediately to the east of Selmeston church almost mid-way between Lewes and Polegate, Sussex, by Mr. W. J. Parsons, who at that time was resident in the neighbouring village of Alciston. The news soon reached the ears of Dr. E. Curwen, F.S.A., who arranged to secure the flints as they were recovered. Towards this he enlisted the aid of Mr. H. A. Davies of Selmeston, who has not only maintained a vigilant watch over the pit, but has also been of great assistance in various ways during further investigations on the site. The present author noticed the few specimens then in Dr. Curwen's collection in his Mesolithic Age in Britain, pp. 83 and 84. When on first visiting the site with Dr. Curwen the section of what appeared to be a pit-dwelling was discovered, it became clear that excavation would greatly enhance our knowledge of the site. Accordingly, with the generous permission of Dr. Curwen and the kind assistance of Mr. Parsons, the pit (pit 1) of which we had seen the first indications, and the remains of another (pit 2), were excavated early in the month of June 1933. Subsequently, another pit-dwelling (pit 3) becoming apparent during the normal course of working back the section of the sand-pit, the author undertook further excavations in the autumn, when he was assisted by Mr. Davies. We should like to acknowledge the kindness of Messrs. Osborn & Bennet of Eastbourne for allowing us to excavate in the sand-pit. Finally the report is made more valuable by identifications by Messrs. Christopher Hawkes, F.S.A., and J. C. Maby, B.Sc.

In the farm of Hatteberg, formerly belonging to the barony of Rosendal to the south of Bergen, there was found in December 1932 a Viking period hoard (pl.xix) consisting of a gold armlet of twisted wire (weight 164·62 grammes), a large silver torc of the same workmanship (weight 403·5 grammes), and a silver brooch of penannular type. The objects lay together about 2 ft. deep in the ground without any protection, the armlet being threaded on the torc. Evidently this was no burial but a treasure, of a kind well known all over northern Europe in the Viking period, from Russia to the British Isles. The torc and armlet are of well-known form and technique, but among the best and most valuable of their class. Of greater interest is the brooch. It is a casting scarcely if at all finished by the chisel. The hoop is flat on the back, which is unornamented. On the front of either terminal a thin gold plate is fitted into a frame, and held in place by a silver rivet with large round head. The plates are ornamented with filigree of notched gold wire, and the rivet-heads also carried some silver filigree. This, however, now shows traces of wear, as does the hoop. As for the rest, the form and decoration may be seen from the illustration.

During the past five years I have confined my study of the ‘100-foot’ terrace to the gravel-pit at Swanscombe which commands a view eastwards over the Ebbsfleet valley. Within a few weeks the ballast will have been wholly cleared from above the chalk. For this reason a summary of the evidence the site has furnished will not be out of place, more especially as up to the present only a very incomplete account has been published.

Between 1926 and 1928, in the course of work carried out to improve the course of the Scheldt between Termonde and Ghent, dredging at a point called the Konkel, 1,000 m. below the bridge of Schoonaerde, brought to light finds of various dates. The most interesting discoveries were made in a small area, 100 m. long and 7 m. deep, which produced remains of the Palaeolithic, Neolithic, Bronze, and Iron Ages.

The decayed town of Orford is one of those interesting examples on the east coast of England of a twelfth-century port, like Dunwich and Ravenspur, which, by the action of the sea, has been rendered derelict. Unlike Dunwich and Ravenspur, however, which were invaded and washed away by coast erosion, Orford's importance was lost by the throwing up by the sea of a long bar running south from Orford Ness, to the east side of the Alde river. After the Conquest Orford was an integral part of the Honour of Eye and was administered along with it, being part of the possessions of the Malet family. Domesday makes no mention of either town or church, and its first appearance ecclesiastically is as a chapel to Sudbourne, evidently elevated into an independent rectory on the growth of Orford as a port. This growth must have taken place at an early date as Robert, the second of the Malet family, in 1101 granted ‘mercatum et thelonium de Oreford’ to his Priory of Eye. Probably then a church of some kind appeared about this time, first as a chapel, but later always referred to as ‘the church of St. Bartholomew in the parish of Orford’, and also termed ‘libera capella aut cantaria de Orford’.