against each other, flat sides toward the mound. When the stones are small, four or five thicknesses are used.

Four hundred and twenty-five feet southward from Setta Barrow is a companion, which has an associated stone row, figured in Plate VIII of the paper above referred to. This also has a retaining circle.

One hundred and seventy-five feet northward from Setta Barrow is another companion, probably despoiled in part. Its diameter is 81 feet and height 2 feet; the top is flat. Considerable remains of the retaining circle are visible, the largest stone nearly equalling the largest named above.

Devon VII. S.W.

WOODBARROW.

This also is a well-known barrow, and one of the bounds between the two counties. I mention it here because Westcote records its opening in the early seventeenth century.

His information as to Broaken Barrow being to some extent corroborated, it may be well to recall his tale of the "brass pan" found here. If by "brass" is meant "bronze," there seems some possibility of the truth, but the find would be most unusual.

It appears that "two good fellows, not inhabiting far from this burrow, were informed by one who took on him the skill of a conjuror, that in that hillock there was a great brass pan, and therein much treasure both silver and gold." The said conjurer undertook to preserve them from the powers of evil provided they would open the barrow and share the find with him. A fourth man whom "in love they made acquainted therewith," "no dastard, but hardy in deed," was "better qualified than to take such courses to procure wealth and absolutely refused to partake therein.”

The barrow being opened, the pan, covered with a large stone, was found. The cover was to be opened, and the strongest fellow at work, but he was suddenly taken with such a faintness that he could neither work nor scarce stand. His companion met a similar fate, the faintness lasting no time in either case. Their defender, the conjurer, thereupon told them "the birds were flown away and only the nest left, which they found to be true," for recovering their strength they lifted away the stone and found nothing in the pan, but the bottom where the treasure should have been was very bright and clean, the rest all eaten with cankered rust. "The relator protested that he saw the pan,

and they two that laboured told him severally all the circumstances, and avowed them."

The record will be found in extenso in the Barrow Committee's first Report.

Woodbarrow may be called the extreme southern member of the Chapman group. Not far from it are a stone quadrilateral and triangle combined.

R. H. WORTH.

POSTSCRIPT.-On the sole substantial basis of the facts above stated, the "Daily Mail" of 18 June, 1906, produced the following historical novel :

ANCIENT BRITISH RELICS.

CARTLOADS FOUND IN A DEVON EARTH MOUND.

Ilfracombe seems likely to add to its long list of attractions one which will specially interest scientists, especially those who make a study of archaeology.

A well-known local clergyman, who has devoted many years to wide researches in the neighbourhood of the lovely North Devon health resort, has recently discovered a barrow-a great earthen mound-containing among other precious relics arrow heads, spear and axe heads, knives, bludgeons, and club spikes of flint, pieces of pottery ware, ornamented bones, and sundry other gear used by the ancient Britons. Several cartloads of these relics were taken out of the barrow-it being a somewhat paradoxical fact that the contents of this single barrow filled many wagons. It is understood that the British Museum has been advised of the find.

The search for further deposits is being continued with unabated zeal. Archæologists have long regarded the neighbourhood of Ilfracombe as one of the favourite haunts of the Britons. There are many evidences, also, of the occupation of the country by the hardy legions from Cæsar to Honorius; one in particular is an encampment made in the limited time of one day, yet complete in its details, and leaving upon it the trade mark of its builders"thorough."

Great is the (magnifying) power of the Press.

R. H. W.

TWENTY-FOURTH REPORT (THIRD SERIES) OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE CLIMATE OF DEVON.

TWENTY-FOURTH REPORT of the Committee-consisting of Mr.

P. F. S. Amery, Sir Alfred Croft, Mr. James Hamlyn, and Mr. R. Hansford Worth-appointed to collect and tabulate trustworthy and comparable Observations on the Climate of Devon.

Edited by R. HANSFORD WORTH, Hon. Secretary.

(Read at Lynton, July, 1906.)

YOUR Committee presents its Report for the year 1905. With great regret the Committee records the death of Mr. F. H. Plumptree, J.P., of Teignbridge, Newton Abbot, to whom, since the year 1897, the Association has been indebted for the annual record from that station.

A new rainfall station at Archerton, Postbridge, on the West Dart, with an elevation of about 1200 feet O.D., appears for the first time; Mr. E. A. Bennett is the Observer. The following changes have taken place:-At Newton Abbot the station lost by the death of Mr. Plumptree has been replaced by Observations taken by Mr. E. D. Wylie, at The Chestnuts, elevation 100 feet O.D. The comparison of these stations for the years 1903, 1904, is as follows:

At Salcombe Mr. W. Prowse has ceased to take records and the Observatory has been removed to Holm Leigh, now Occupying an elevation of 137 feet O.D. in place of the former height of 110. Mr. V. W. Twining, M.B., kindly supplies the return. No comparison of these stations is possible.

On the Torquay Watershed the monthly gauge at Blackingstone has been removed from our list, and Tottiford gauge is now disused.

Teignmouth, The Den, is now entered as "Teignmouth Observatory," and Torquay, Cary Green, as "Torquay Observatory." Additional Observations for Humidity are recorded at Teignmouth, Bitton, and for Sunshine at Teignmouth Observatory.

The best thanks of the Committee and of the Association are due to the Observers, whose assistance renders possible the preparation of this Report.

The names of the Observers or the Authority, and of the Stations, with the height above Ordnance-datum, are as follows:

.70 8 12 43.3 39.9 46.6 43.2 32.4 49.8 81 6.9

.93 15 14 41.8 38.1 47.3 42.8 28.6 53.7 85 7.6 69.39 II

.97 16 15 35.9 31.7 42.0 36.9 25.9 49.0 89 7.0

.33 8 14 42.7 39.3 46.7 43.0 32.2 52.2 82 6.5 57.60 14

1 Incomplete.