COMMUNICATIONS MADE TO THE British Archaeological Association. VOL. II. LONDON: LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. M.DCCC.LXXI. PREFACE. In issuing a second volume of the Collectanea Archæologica, the Council of the British Archæological Association has kept steadily in view the object for which the publication was originally designed, viz., the circulation among the members from time to time of such papers as require more extensive illustration than could be given to them in the Journal, or of such as had been perforce omitted from its pages on account of the pressure of other matter bearing more immediately upon the actual business of the Association as transacted at its sessional meetings during the year. In accordance with this scheme, the present volume will be found to contain, among other important and interesting contributions, papers read at, or prepared for, the annual congresses held at Exeter in 1861, under the presidency of the Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northcote, Bart., M.P., M.A., C.B.; at Leicester, in 1862, under the presidency of the late John Lee, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S., F.S.A.; and in illustration of the Leeds Congress held in 1863, under the presidency of the Right Hon. Lord Houghton, M.A., D.C.L. ; while among the miscellaneous items may be mentioned papers on the "Tumulus of Maes-howe in the Orkneys", and on its remarkable Runic inscriptions; on "Netley Abbey, co. Hants"; "An Inventory of Furniture and Effects in a House at Stratford-on-Avon, taken in the time of Shakespeare": on "Ancient Camps, Earthworks, and Fortifications in Cornwall and Suffolk"; on the "Ancient House of Gournay", from which has sprung the well known family of the Gurneys of Norfolk; on “Cromlechs and other Remains in Pembrokeshire"; on a "Roman Villa at Nennig in Prussia”; and an "Itinerary of Edward I." Independently of the intrinsic merits of these papers, there is, so to speak, a personal interest attaching to some of them-more especially as far as the members of the British Archæological Association are concerned-from the fact that since they were written, their authors have been removed by the hand of death from the scene of their labours; and the names of our late honoured Vice-President and Treasurer, Mr. T. J. Pettigrew, Mr. George Vere Irving, and the Rev. C. H. Hartshorne will ever be held in grateful remembrance, not only by our own society, but by all who are interested in antiquarian pursuits, for their valuable services to the Association; for the zeal and activity they displayed in infusing into others a taste for archæological lore; for the willingness with which they imparted information to those who were less accomplished in the science than themselves; and for the extent of the knowledge and research they displayed in elucidating the various subjects upon which they were engaged. The value or, it might almost be said, the necessity, of such a work is evidenced by the illustrations to this volume, the ordinary publications of the Society being quite insufficient to exhibit what is here shown to be in every way worthy of special notice; and the acknowledgments of the Association are due to all those who have aided by gifts, loan, or labour, in the production of the numerous cuts and plates. To such the thanks of the Society have been duly tendered and recorded; but it would be proper here to mention more particularly the names of some to whom we are indebted, viz.: Daniel Gurney, Esq., F.S.A., George Godwin, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A., and for a munificent donation towards the illustrations of Fountains Abbey by the Right Hon. Marquis of Ripon. It only remains to add that some of the papers originally announced for publication in the volume are not included in its pages, owing to their respective authors, some by pressure of business, and others by unforeseen domestic circumstances, having been unable to complete them. Their places, however, have been supplied by other essays, which it is believed are of equal value and interest. ERRATA. Page 226, line 7 from bottom, for "three-quarters of a mile south of Llanboidy," read "three miles south-west of Llanboidy." Page 230, line 2, for "in length," read "in breadth"; and add "or from 13 ft. 9 in. to 14 ft. 6 in. in length by 6 ft. 8 in. in breadth, varying in different parts of the stone." Page 316, note, for "reignal years," read "regnal years." On Plate V, for "X," read "Y," and between "V" and "Q" insert “X." In the references to the plates illustrating Sir Gardner Wilkinson's article on Cromlechs and other Remains in Pembrokeshire," pp. 219-240, for Plates 1 to 6, read Plates XXIX to XXXIV. CONTENTS. 1.-ON THE TUMULUS OF MAES-HOWE IN THE ORKNEYS, by T. J. PETTIGREW, ESQ., F.R.S., F.S.A., Vice-President and Treasurer of the British Archæological Association 11.-EXPLANATION OF THE INSCRIPTIONS FOUND IN THE CHAMBERS OF THE MAES-HOWE, by the REV. T. BARCLAY, D.D., Principal of the University of Glasgow, Member of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquities of Copenhagen. III. ANCIENT CAMPS, EARTHWORKS, AND FORTIFICATIONS IN DEVON, by GEORGE VERE IRVING, ESQ., F.S.A.Scot., Vice-President of the British Archæological Association IV. ON THE GENEALOGY AND ARMORIAL ENSIGNS OF THE ANGLO-NORMAN EARLS OF LEICESTER, by JAMES ROBINSON PLANCHÉ, ESQ., Rouge Croix, Hon. Sec. of the British Archæological Asso- v.-ON THE LIFE AND TIMES OF LETITIA, COUNTESS OF LEICESTER, by EDWARD LEVIEN, ESQ., M.A., PAGE VI.-ON AN EARLY MANUSCRIPT IN THE MUNIMENT-ROOM IN THE GUILDHALL, LEICESTER, by THOMAS WRIGHT, ESQ., M.A., F.S.A., Member of the Institute of France, Sec. for Foreign Corre- |