Since the extensive find at Aylesford, published by the Society in 1890, there have been numerous isolated discoveries of pedestal and other urns, especially in Essex and Kent, most of which have found their way into Colchester Museum; but nothing that could be said to throw any new light on the Early Iron Age of Britain was met with till 1906, when burial vaults were discovered at Welwyn (fig. 1). To ensure greater privacy the late Mr. George Edward Dering, of Lockleys, arranged for the diversion of the station road which passed the lodge-gates of his park; this operation involved cutting through a chalk hill capped with gravel, which proved rich in Late-Celtic remains, Unfortunately for archaeology, the excavations were not supervised with this end in view, and much was no doubt destroyed or overlooked by the workmen. An important series, however, of which a list is given below, came into the hands of Mr. Dering, who questioned the foreman as to their position and grouping, and the following account is based on notes taken by the present writer of Mr. Dering's statement in January, 1907. They are supplemented and in part corrected by information given to Sir Arthur Evans by Sir A. Scott-Gatty, Garter King of Arms, who did all in his power as a resident at Welwyn to rescue the antiquities and to preserve a record of the circumstances in which they were found. The discovery was also communicated by him to Sir John Evans, who visited Lockleys with the President to make an inspection of the objects in December, 1906. They were then in a lamentable condition, and remained so till Mr. Dering's death i n January, 1911, after which, by desire of Mrs. Alfred James Neall, Mr. Dering's daughter and heiress, they were removed to the British Museum, to be presented to the Trustees after being exhibited to the Society.

In considering the regulations which governed the scoring of the different points in joust or tourney we have certain materials preserved to us which are at once interesting and useful but at the same time confusing in the extreme. These materials consist of written or printed rules and regulations, either of a general nature or framed for some particular contest, sample ‘cheques’ or score sheets, and also actual scores of the points made at certain jousts.

Professor Willis's plan in his Architectural History of the Monastery of Christ Church lays down very clearly the form of the Capella Infirmorum and its relation t o the Domus Infirmorum and surrounding buildings. The chapel was of late Norman construction, and consisted of a short nave and aisles of four bays, with a square-ended chancel. The nave has a characteristic Norman clearstory, and was separated from the chancel by a chancel arch, but the main features of the nave exist in situ for any one to examine, and need not detain us. The chancel was lighted by two Norman windows on each side, which were shafted, had late Norman, almost Transitional, carved capitals and a rich zigzagged archivolt. In the east wall were three windows of similar detail. The normal thickness of the chancel walls is ft. 2 in. They were unbuttressed, and the whole was ceiled with a plain barrel vault, covering a span of 26 ft, somewhat wide for so small a building.

The remains of the Dominican houses in England are so inconsiderable as to give little indication of the former power and influence of the order. The Dominican convents, however, outnumbered those of any other mendicant order, and while the popularity of the Blackfriars amongst the lower classes probably never equalled that of the Minor brethren, yet in court favour and aristocratic support the Dominicans held the higher place, and a succession of their friars occupied the post of confessor to the later mediaeval kings.

The great chapel of Saint George within the royal Castle of Windsor, founded by King Edward IV for the most honourable and noble Order of the Garter, stands immediately to the west of the original chapel of the Order, formed by King Edward III within the older building of King Henry III.

The mosaic was fixed in a small niche in a wall of the buildings of the Imperial Villa on Posilipo, near Naples. One part of the site, now submerged beneath the sea in consequence of a post-Roman land movement, has already been described, but later surveys of the very extensive antiquities and ruins on the hill above still await publication. Among other discoveries, we have been able to find evidence that this fine property, stated to have been left by Vedius Pollio to Augustus, was still in the imperial possession as late as the reign of Hadrian, and that considerable alterations to the buildings were made at that period.

The formal recognition by the Monaco Congress (1906) of the Aurignac stage of culture marks a distinct advance in the classification of palaeolithic cave-relics. The point has been keenly debated, but most are now agreed that Aurignac, as a typical station, comes between Le Moustier and Solutré, and represents a civilization that extended over a large part of Europe. This stage has in recent years been so thoroughly studied that its distinctive types can be easily recognized, and many cave-deposits readily fall into this division; but so far very little of this sort has been noticed in England, where the industry seems, however, to have had a special and a splendid development.

The investigation of the early history of England is beset with many difficulties and has furnished material for the widest conjectures. Prior to the Roman invasion our knowledge is confined almost entirely to such deductions as can be made by the aid of archaeology. But the difficulties by no means decrease with the period when England makes its first appearance in the pages of written history. Indeed, they might be said rather to increase, and perhaps of no period is this truer than of the times between the decline of the Roman power in Britain and the ultimate establishment of the Anglo-Saxon power. The records are, to say the least of it, of the barest nature, and present many problems of absorbing interest, towards the elucidation of which archaeology has already contributed not a little. In some cases, however, the evidence of archaeology appears to find itself in conflict with the witness of history, and it is one of these incongruities which I have set myself the task of endeavouring to investigate in the course of this paper.

This paper is intended to supplement, and in the light of fuller information to modify, the communication regarding recent archaeological discoveries in Jersey that I had the honour to lay before the Society of Antiquaries last year. The new matter relates to two sets of excavations undertaken by the Societe Jersiaise, in both of which I was privileged to take part. Neither site was altogether virgin. But, whereas the cave known as La Cotte de St. Brelade could be counted on as rich in objects of antiquarian interest, Green Island, or, to call it by its more ancient and authentic name, La Motte, had yielded little, at all events of late. Fifty years ago a human cranium of ancient appearance had been found low down in its basement of loess or brick-earth; but since that time nothing more had come to light here, except a rough neolithic implement or two from the higher levels of the islet. Even now, perhaps, it can scarcely vie with the St. Brelade's cave as an attraction to the student of prehistorics; for I am afraid that he is apt to rate the neolithic in general all too cheaply, owing to the glamour that enshrouds the more remote, if hardly more inscrutable, palaeolithic. Yet, as the sequel will show, La Motte has at any rate given birth to a crop of problems, which, I venture to think, may prove of more than local importance.

Many plans exist of what is now the Cathedral at Bristol, but there are to my knowledge none to a sufficiently large scale to be of much practical use, and in those that do exist, with two exceptions, the buildings south of the church, that surround the cloister court, are either only roughly outlined or are omitted altogether. The two exceptions are (1) the Ordnance Survey map of 1884, which shows buildings now destroyed, and (2) a plan (without scale) which accompanies a paper by the late Mr. E. W. Godwin, F.S.A., published in the Archaeological Journal for 1863. This is little more than a block plan, but it is the only attempt hitherto made to identify the various monastic buildings. Since this latter plan was made a road has been taken through near the gatehouse, involving the destruction of the buildings that stood on the west side of College Green at that point, and since 1884 another road has been made on the south side across the site of some of the then existing monastic buildings. The precinct is now therefore considerably reduced in area; originally it appears to have included College Green, while the monastic land extended south to the rivers Frome and Avon. The plan (pi. XXXIV) includes all the monastic buildings now remaining, and shows the position and extent as far as possible of those destroyed. Some old plans, the property of the Dean and Chapter, have quite recently been placed at my disposal, which have enabled me to add the buildings west of the church and adjoining the gate-house.

The bowl I have the honour to lay before, the Society was sent to me by an Indian correspondent, and I made up my mind at once that it should be secured for the British Museum. On my showing it to my friend Mr. Max Bonn, he was kind enough to offer to present it, and at this moment it is in process of being laid before the Trustees as a gift, through the intermediation of the National Art Collections Fund (pl. XXXV).

Six years ago we read a paper before you on ‘Recent Discoveries in connexion with Roman London’, when you kindly gave us leave to make further researches on behalf of the Society. Since then we have been almost constantly watching excavations in London, and it is now our duty to give an account of Roman remains exposed to view since June, 1906. It will naturally be asked why we have delayed so long: the reply is, that these diggings have followed each other in rapid sequence, lasting in some cases over protracted periods and demanding much sacrifice of time and energy. A large part of our observation also has met with little definite result, while frequently later finds have had a bearing on those which preceded them, and have thus offered opportunities of correcting and amplifying the previous records.