The cairn at Mount Stewart has attracted wide attention as the alleged find-site of one of the very small group of Irish beakers. Since the ‘beaker’ and another bowl-shaped food-vessel from the cairn have now been rediscovered in the Belfast Municipal Museum—and the last relic of the cairn recently removed—we feel the time has come for a review of the available data.

The salvage excavation on the gas-pipe trench was directed by J. David Zienkiewicz for the National Museum of Wales and the Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust. The main excavations were directed by Dr Edith Evans and D.J. Maynard for the GGAT in association with the National Museum of Wales, following the topsoil strip which was undertaken under the direction of Gareth Dowdell of GGAT. The excavation of the burials was supervised by Joyce Compton (GGAT). Salvage excavations during the construction of the building were directed by Dr Edith Evans. On-site finds processing was supervised by Susan Fox (NMW). The drawings were prepared by Mary Anne Constance (NMW), Paul Jones (GGAT), Mariangela Pambianchi (GGAT), and Chris Seabright (GGAT). Thanks are due to Mrs G.

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Possible standard units of measurement in Roman military planning,' Britannia xii (1981), 13-36. 2 T.F.C. Blagg, 'Roman civil and military architecture in the province of Britain,' World Arch, xii (1980), 27-42. 3 The other ancient source which should perhaps be mentioned is pseudo-Hyginus, De munitionibus castmrum. The author of this treatise is, however, concerned with the rational deployment of prefabricated entities (i.e. tents), and his preoccupations cannot be expected to be those of the architect who was not primarily concerned with how many people could be fitted into a given space. 4 Vitruvius, De architectura I.praef. 2 ; I.iv.i. 5 G. Webster, The Roman Imperial Army (3rd edn, 1985), 158. 6 Vitruvius VII.praef. 10-18. 7 Thus Faventinus (//. c. A.D. 300); K. Plommer, Vitruvius and Later Roman Building Manuals (1973), introduction passim. A distinction should, however, be made between the principles upon which the design process was based, and the details through which the individual architect expressed himself, see T.F.C. Blagg, 'Reconstruction of Roman decorated architecture,' in P.J. Drury (ed.), Structural Reconstruction, BAR n o (1982). 131-52. 8 Walthew, op. cit. (note 1), 18.

He took a close interest in social welfare work connected with his Company, and in starting the branch at Carlisle bought Murrell Hill House and its grounds as a place of recreation for his workpeople. He took a close interest in the Territorial Army and in the earlier Volunteers, and during the War of 1914-18 was actively concerned in the organization and supervision of munitions-making in the Carlisle area. He had made a close study of native textiles of m any countries, of which he had a valuable private collection, and was proud of the fa ct that he was himself a weaver and a master of that ancient craft. R. BRIGHTMAN.