To the Society, for "Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries", Second Series, vol. ix, No. 3; and Archeologia, vol. xlviii, Part I.

land."

for "Journal of the Royal Historical Association of Ire1884.

for "Somersetshire Archæological and Natural History Proceedings", vol. xxix, New Series, vol. ix.

for "Archæologia Cambrensis", Fifth Series, Nos. 2, 3.

"Collections Historical and Archæological relating to Montgomeryshire", vol. xvii, Part II.

for "Transactions of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Session 1883-4."

for "Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution for the Year 1882."

for "Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Cooper Union for Advancement of Science and Art, 28 May 1884." New York.

Mr. E. P. L. Brock, F.S.A., Hon. Sec., exhibited a carefully scaled diagram showing portions of the Roman bridge near Cottingham, on the river Trent, and read a paper upon it by Mr. H. Rolfe, which it is hoped will appear hereafter in the Journal.

Mr. Brock also exhibited a collection of fragments of a stained glass window of the fourteenth century, at West Bere Church, near Sturry, co. Kent. Among the designs were noticed portions of drapery and geometric and floral patterns.

Mr. Worthington G. Smith, F.L.S., exhibited a stone hammer of compact quartzite, found at Bwlch Pen Barras, a quarter of a mile north of the Cambro-British camp on Moel Fenlli, and a mile and a quarter south of Moel Famma, on the north-west side of Ruthin. It has been partially drilled on each face, but the work is not completed. (See woodcut, next page.) Mr. Smith also exhibited a somewhat curved pestle of hornblendic granite or hornblendic gneiss, 13 inches long, from Epping Forest.

Mr. Arthur Cope exhibited a small collection of bookbindings, among others a specimen of the stamped vellum of the seventeenth century, and read some notes on bookbinding.

Mr. G. R. Wright, F.S.A., Hon. Curator, exhibited and described a rubbing of the brass of Edward de la Hole, 1431, in the Oakwood Chapel, Oakley Church, co. Surrey.

Mr. Wright also pointed out that the maces of the Corporation of Tenby had been, since the Congress held there in the autumn, carefully repaired and secured in suitable boxes (with an inscription recording the Congress visit) against future injury, by Mr. G. Lambert, F.S.A.; and that Mr. Lambert had also repaired the maces of the borough of

Haverfordwest, which, like the Tenby maces, had been found in an unsatisfactory condition when the Congress visited the town. These works Mr. Lambert had carried out at his own expense.

The thanks of the Meeting were cordially tendered to Mr. Lambert for the judicious and timely care and trouble which he had so liberally bestowed on these interesting relics.

Mr. Walter Myers, F.S.A., exhibited a large collection of miscellaneous antiquities collected recently by him-(1), from Sussex, a bronze fibula, a bronze buckle, a bronze tang, a South Sea Island stone dagger, a bronze bell, a bone hair-pin; (2), from Trèves, an iron arrow-head, a crossbow-bolt, a small iron ingot, a small fibula, a bronze button, a large fibula of bronze with silver niello-work, and an object of uncertain use.

Mr. W. de Gray Birch, F.S.A., Hon. Secretary, read

TUNORBURY IN HAYLING, HAMPSHIRE.

BY C. ROACH SMITH, ESQ., V.P., F.S.A.

In the earlier part of the present year I was enabled to give some particulars of the British oppidum in the parish of Stoke. Meon, called "Old Winchester". I am now in a position to draw attention to another overlooked oppidum in the same county; and for this privilege

I am also indebted to the services of Mr. Thomas Harris of Hayling, upon whose property this oppidum is situated. A few years since he introduced me to it; but this autumn I had a more favourable opportunity for examination.1

The peculiar and characteristic features of this oppidum, called "Tunorbury", are, its situation on low ground, and the manner in which its fosse was adapted to be filled by the sea at high tides. Most of the British oppida are upon hills or high ground; and, on one side at least, are usually protected by the natural steep acclivity of the site. This, in the Island of Hayling, is upon a tongue of land only slightly raised above the marshes; but this disadvantage was compensated by the admission of water into the fosse, which is of considerable width, and from 20 to 30 feet deep.

It is remarkable that in these days of archæological research such an interesting and probably unique monument should have remained almost unknown; and that even after attention had been drawn to it during the Congress of the Archæological Institute at Chichester, in a very attractive notice and plan which formed one of the exhibitions on that occasion; but, like other suggestive exhibitions and communications, it seems only to have left a barren record, which I now reproduce :2

"Plan of the circular entrenchment in Hayling Island, known as Tunorbury (area about 7 acres), from actual survey and measurement specially made on occasion of the meeting of the Institute. This fortress, which appears to have been noticed only in the History of the Hundred of Bosmere (privately printed), is situated in a position very judiciously chosen, originally surrounded on three sides by tidal inlets, on the western side of the great estuary which forms Chichester Harbour. It is supposed to be a Saxon work." (The Rev. C. Hardy, Vicar of Hayling.)

It gives the diameter that of the narrowest,

The work referred to is by C. J. Longcroft. of the greatest width of the area as 250 yards; 200 yards; and the area as about 3 acres; so that the area of Mr. Hardy's plan must be taken to mean the entire work, including vallum and fosse. From Mr. Longcroft, Mr. Hardy appears to have adopted the notion that Tunorbury is of Saxon origin, a supposition as unfounded as that of Roman for "Old Winchester". What, if any, use the Saxons may have turned the oppidum to must be entirely a matter of conjecture.

The site of the oppidum must have been exposed on two sides, and

I was accompanied by Mr. John Harris and Mr. William Law. To the former I am obliged for tracing the ancient embankment beyond the point to which I explored.

2 Sussex Archeological Collections, vol. viii, p. 321. 1856.

3 Published by J. Russell Smith in 1857.

partly on the third, to the high tides of the estuary; but on the northeast an embankment was raised across the marsh, which effectually shut out the water, and at the same time formed a road which led up by the side of the vallum to the entrance on the land side at the upper part. A deep cutting was then made in the centre of the side opposite the sea, which ensured the filling of the fosse. It has still a considerable depth of water, although the estuary has during the present century been also embanked.

A road passes through the upper part, or land side, of the oppidum, on what must have been the site of the ancient transit. The entire area is now covered with trees and brushwood. Both Mr. Harris, the tenant, and Mr. Padwick, the landlord, fully appreciate the antiquarian interest attached to this most interesting British or Celtic stronghold, which, hitherto overlooked, will now, through the medium of the Association, receive the attention it deserves.

Since writing the above, I have received, by the kindness of Mr. Hellier Gosselin, a copy of an engraving of the plan referred to. It was published in the Journal of the Archaeological Institute for 1873, together with a note which I must have written immediately after my first visit to Tunorbury in that year. I am unconscious of ever seeing that plan before. The oppidum is given on a very small scale, but correctly. The inner or ancient embankment does not appear. So I may consider myself the discoverer of this most interesting feature of the surroundings of the oppidum.

Mr. C. H. Compton read a paper on the "Roman Bridge recently discovered at Newark", which it is hoped will find a place hereafter in the Journal.

WEDNESDAY, 3RD DECEMBER 1884.

T. MORGAN, Esq., V.P., F.S.A., HON. TREASURER, IN THE CHAIR.

Edw. Laws, Esq., Tenby, was appointed a Local Member of Council for Pembrokeshire.

Thanks were ordered to be returned to the Society for "Collections Historical and Archæological relating to Montgomeryshire", vol. xvii, Part III. November 1884.

Mr. Woodhouse exhibited a collection of foreign bronze medals:1. Obv., head of Napoleon; "Napoleon Empereur." Rev., a view of Napoleon's tomb in St. Helena; "Memorial de St. Helena; 5 Mai MDCCCXXI; Paris, 15 Dec. MDCCCXL." By A. Bovy.

2. A medal to commemorate the birth of the late Duc de Chambord.

Obv., head of Louis XVIII. Rev., a figure holding an infant; "Donum Dei Altissimi." By De Puymaurin.

3. Coronation medal of Charles X. Obv., crowned bust; "Carolus X, Rex Christianissimus." Rev., coronation scene, "Rex Carolus Colesti Oleo unctus", etc. By De Puymaurin and E. Gatteaux.

4. Obv., head of King "Carolus X, Franc. et Nav. Rex." Rev., the King on horseback, attended by three female figures. By Gatteau. 5. A medal to commemorate the death of Ferd. L. Philippe d'Orleans, who was thrown from his carriage and killed, July 13, 1842, leaving a widow and two sons. The Duc de Nemours was appointed Regent. Obv., two heads; that of the Duc de Nemours, and the eldest son of the Philippe d'Orleans. Rev., a long inscription. By Borrel.

6. A medal to commemorate the election of Napoleon III as President. Obv., head of Emperor; above, an eagle bearing a chaplet; "De la Republique Française, L. Napoleon President." Rev., an inscription and date, "10 Decembre 1848", in a wreath. By Montagny.

7. Medal to commemorate the alliance of England, France, and Turkey, against Russia. Obv., three figures, Napoleon III, Victoria, and Sultan. Rev., inscription. By Caqué.

Mr. Howlett exhibited a forged bronze medal from Rome. Obv., head of king with antique crown, to the right. Rev., a sow suckling seven pigs under a tree.

Mr. C. Roach Smith, F.S.A., V.P., sent for exhibition photographs of an ancient wooden bucket with metal hoops, and inscribed with pentacles and other uncertain characters, communicated to him by Colonel Turner of Liverpool.

Mr. Romilly Allen forwarded a photograph (carefully taken by Mr. Bontoft of Ilkley) of an inscribed and sculptured Roman stone recently found at Ilkley, and notices of the same from The Ilkley Gazette, as follows:

"In the excavations which have been made in connection with the erection of various buildings in the modern Ilkley, as also in the prosecution of public works, a vast number of articles have from time to time been found of intrinsic antiquarian interest, such as broken pottery, vases, etc., many of them fine specimens of Roman art; and if there were not other valuable testimony written indelibly on stone, of the Roman occupation of Ilkley, these would most certainly point to such an occupation. But it appears that we have not yet reached the end of the unearthing of these singular landmarks of bygone times and peoples, for during the last week a number of valuable finds were made; and if the supposition concerning these proves correct, they will be valuable additions to the long string of evidence in proof of the occupation of Olicana by the Romans.

"Mr E. Wall, proprietor of the Rose and Crown Inn, Ilkley, having