The learned and venerable Society of Antiquaries has begun with
the New Year to publish a quarterly, the Antiquaries' Journal (Milford, 5s. net or 17s. a year), in place of the Proceedings which have been issued to members only. The first number of the new quarterly is a scholarly and interesting pro- duction. It contains a detailed account of Colonel Hawley's excavations at Stonehenge last winter, when the fallen stones were set up again by the Office of Works ; Dr. Thomas, of the Geological Survey, states that the larger boulders probably came from the Prescelly Mountains of Pembrokeshire, by human effort rather than by glacial action. Mr. Curie describes the find of Roman silver on the top of Traprain Law, Hadding- ton, in 1919, and shows that the treasure was stolen from Visigothic settlements in Western Gaul and left by the robbers on the Scottish hill in some moment of imminent danger. Mr. A. W. Clapham gives the first accurate description, with a measured plan, of the Latin monastic buildings of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem. As a guide to current events in the archaeological world the new quarterly, to which Sir Hercules Read contributes an introduction, should prove of great interest and value.
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