15. The "Black Book" of Southampton. By the Rev. R. H. 18. The Discovery of a Saxon Burial-place near Reading. By JOSEPH STEVENS, Esq., M.R.C.P.L. 21. The Vitrified Forts of the North of Scotland, and the Theories as to their History. By Miss RUSSELL. 23. Notes on American Tumuli. By Dr. A. C. FRYER 24. The Origin of the Parish Church Buildings and Institutions 28. The Story of the Quit-rent at Andover. By Rev. R. H. 29. Notes on the Plague in Winchester. By W. H. JACOB, Esq. 267 30. Kirkham Priory and Wardon Abbey. By C. H. COMPTON, 31. An ancient Record concerning St. Augustine's Abbey, Can- terbury. By Rev. J. CAVE-BROWNE, M.A. 32. Notes on the Font and Brasses in Adderley Church, Salop. 33. Notes on Sepulchral Crosses and Slabs in the Island of Unst, 34. The Classical and Medieval Use of Fortification of Branches, Balance Sheet for the Year ending 31 Dec. 1893 Election of Officers for the Session 1894-5 The Origins of Pictish Symbolism. By the Earl of South- Wherstead, Territorial and Manorial. By Rev. F. B. Zincke Clinch and S. W. Kershaw, M.A. By G. 90, 334 Saga of Egil Skallagrimson, Icelandic Family History of the 9th and 10th Centuries. Translated by Rev. W. C. Green 198 Irish Druids and Old Irish Religions. By Jas. Bonwick, Stonehenge and its Earthworks. By Edgar Barclay, Esq. Dictionary of British Folk-Lore. Edited by G. S. Gomme, Lydd and its Church. By Thos. H. Oyler, Esq. The Royal Charters of the City of Carlisle. By R. S. Fer- guson, M.A., Chancellor of Carlisle History of Westmorland. By Chancellor R. S. Ferguson, M.A. West Grinstead et les Caryll: étude historique et religieuse sur The Euganeo-Venetian Inscriptions. By Sigr. F. Cordenons. 279 History of Tong, Shropshire, its Church, etc. By G. Griffiths, Esq. 280 Gentleman's Magazine Library, Ecclesiology of the Magazine from 1731 to 1868. By F. A. Milne, Esq.; edited by Ancient Monuments of Govan Parish, Scotland What mean these Stones? By C. Maclagan, Esq. The Early History of Hedon. By J. R. Boyle, Esq., F.S.A. Child-Marriages, etc., in Diocese of Chester. By F. J. Fur- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 1. Font at Winchester Cathedral 2. Font at Zedelghem, near Bruges, Belgium 3. Geometrical Patterns on Fonts of Winchester Type 4. The Palatine Stadium, from a Coin of Septimius Severus 5. Merchants' Marks 7. Ditto, Sections through Ancient Foundations 8. Small Stone Object found at Oxford 9. Seal of Charles II, Obverse 10. Ditto, Reverse 11. Seal of George I, Obverse 12. Ditto, Reverse 13. The Curfew Gate, Barking 14. Leeds Abbey, Kent (Kip's View) 15. Old House at Leeds, Kent PAGE } between pp. 8 and 9 48 50 57 66 67 68 69 92 99 16. Cistern and Lavatory, Battle Hall, Leeds, Kent 17. Roman Altar found at Lanchester. 21. Articles found in Saxon Burial-place near Reading. Plate 1 152 22. Ditto, Plate 2 23. Bronze Weapon found at North Weald Bassett, Essex 24. Stone Instrument found at Epping Uplands 146 147 25. Inscription on the Leaden Pig recently found at Matlock 26. Repton Church, Derbyshire, Remains found during the Re 34. Charles-le-Chauve from the ancient Psalter by Liuthard 35. Sculptured Slab at Rothwell, Leeds PREFACE. THE FIFTIETH VOLUME OF THE JOURNAL OF OF THE BRITISH ARCHEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION for the year 1894 contains thirty-seven papers read at the Congress at Winchester in the summer of 1893, or during the evening meetings of the session 1893-4 in London, as well as the proceedings of the Congress and evening meetings. The Volume has been illustrated with many plates, some of which have been contributed by the liberality of the authors of the papers to which they appertain; and by this means the Association has been enabled to give a more pictorial aspect to the Volume than would otherwise have been possible. The contents will be found, as usual, very miscellaneous and all-embracing, although the absence of any very important or out-of-the-way discoveries and investigations, which characterised the previous year, is still noticeable in this. By the publication of this Volume the Association completes its jubilee, a fashionable way of proclaiming the shortness of life and the long duration of system. Few members, indeed, who stood up at Canterbury half a century ago, have survived to celebrate this fiftieth . anniversary; but the mental force, which then set the machinery of the Association at work, has maintained its collective energies in full vigour to the present day, and, let us hope, will direct it for many a year to come, in faithful obedience to the ancient philosopher's injunction that those who hold the torch should take care to hand it down to others in turn for profitable keeping. W. DE G. BIRCH. 31 December, 1894. |