During the second part of the season 1926–7 the Joint Expedition of the British Museum and the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania was engaged in excavating a cemetery, or rather cemeteries, lying inside the temenos wall and at the south-east end of the enclosure. In 1922, during the early days of our first season at Ur, we had dug here a trial trench of no great depth and had found several groups of pottery and some jewellery which, owing to its nearness to the surface, I had assumed to be of late date (see Ant. Journal, vol. iii (1923), pi. xxix). Work of this sort, however, could not be done satisfactorily with the absolutely untrained gang which we had just enrolled, and the discovery of the temple E-Nun-Mah in another part of the temenos enabled me to abandon what the men named ‘the Gold Trench’. Now, after four years, the time had come to complete the topography of the temenos by clearing up what was the only large area within its walls still untested. The negative results of our original trench—negative so far as walls were concerned— and the evident denudation of the site, did not inspire confidence, but the ground had to be proved, and there was at least the prospect of further discoveries of small objects.

On 15th May 1924 Mr. Harold J. E. Peake, F.S.A., read to the Society of Antiquaries a short paper announcing certain new facts regarding this Late Bronze Age hoard that had come to light mainly through research in, or connected with, the Bronze Implements Card Index of the British Association.

Two approximately contemporary accounts of the discovery exist, but these contain so many divergences that it was uncertain whether two distinct hoards were referred to, and Sir John Evans, in his Ancient Bronze Implements (1881), numbers and treats of them separately, with a query as to their identity. Our fresh evidence demonstrates that the two descriptions refer to the same group of bronze implements.

A Roman kiln was discovered in 1906 by Mr. Harold Falkner, a member of the Surrey Archaeological Society, and described by him in the county Archaeological Collections, vol. xx, pp. 228–32, with diagrams of the kiln and representative pottery ; but Mr. Falkner states that this kiln was empty when he discovered it, and that he never properly understood this site.

The present notes, with their accompanying photographs, have for their purpose the placing on record of some English alabaster carvings which either differ in style, in noteworthy details, or in iconography from pieces previously illustrated or described, or supply fresh examples of some uncommon technique or unusual subject. The objects have not hitherto, so far as I know, been published.

The ruins of Kindrochit Castle stand in the heart of the much-frequented village of Braemar, near the head of the river Dee, amid the wild mountains of western Aberdeenshire. The castle occupies a very strong position on the east brink of a rocky gorge formed by the Clunie Water, and on the other side was defended by an ancient mill-lade, taken off the Clunie above the castle, and rejoining it below, so as to complete the insulation of the site. In the name of the castle (Kindrochit = ‘bridge-head’) is enshrined its early importance as a fortified post guarding the passage of the great north road across the Clunie Water. The map (fig. 1) clearly indicates how the significance of the castle is to be found not in the east-and-west or blind-alley strategy of the Dee valley, but rather in the north and south or transversal strategy of the ancient trunk roads converging northwards across the ‘Mounth’ or mountain barrier between Strathmore and Mar.

In Castle Field at Worth—the old name of which is Word— at a distance of two miles south from Sandwich, is a Roman site which is described by William Boys in his well-known History of Sandwich It is situated in a field on the east side of the Sandwich-Deal road (fig. 1). Boys, at the end of the eighteenth century, apparently uncovered the walls of a building at surfacelevel. Since that date, there is no mention of any further disturbance other than that of the plough. Boys states that he found some pottery, but he gives no particulars of it. He suggests that a watch-tower or lighthouse was built here in Roman times, but excavations, undertaken in 1925, clearly demonstrate that the walls represent the remains of a Roman temple, and further that this shrine was erected on an earlier settlement.

This barrow is situated on the southern slope of Hadden's Hill Plantation, on the north side of the lower end of Queen's Park Avenue, and is in a line with the western border of the Nursery Gardens—Lat. 50.44.52., Long. 1.50.19. W. The plantation has lately been cleared and the barrow is now practically free from all vegetation (fig. 1). Owing to its position upon a slope this barrow may, by silting and spreading, have altered its shape, and the fact that it is composed of sand and is almost devoid of vegetation may have been a contributory cause. In all probability, however, its oval outline at the time of excavation was its original outline, for that was the shape of the black band running through the barrow at the level of the old turf-line ; but the complete absence of a ditch makes it difficult to speak with certainty.