The village of Egginton (now officially spelt Eggington to distinguish it from Egginton in Derbyshire) lies some three miles east of Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire. By the courtesy of the former owner of the manor, Mr. Harry Sear, and more lately by that of his son, Mr. Gains Sear, I have for some years been able to watch the more or less incidental disclosure of archaeological remains in the excavation of sand on a site near Egginton Manor Farm. This site, where the large Sand Pit is marked on the map, 1 fig. (after 6-in. O.S. Beds. XXVIII SE.), lies upon the top of the Gault hill which rises along the north side of the village. The summit is here just above the 400-ft. contour-line, and the Gault has a thick capping of glacial sand, which dies out westward within about 200 yards, but extends for some distance to the east. This sand consists of redeposited and current-bedded material, derived mainly from the escarpment of the Lower Greensand two miles or so to the north, but of course including many stones and fossils from the Gault of the intervening valley. The bed has been superficially worked from medieval times, no doubt chiefly for building purposes, but it is only of recent years that it has been systematically and deeply dug.

IN this Journal some time ago (1934) I drew attention to a distinctive but remarkably rare manifestation of irregular vertebral segmentation affecting the cervical spine, viz. the occurrence of adventitious diarthrodial union between the pleurapophyseal elements of two adjacent cervical vertebrae. I described a particular example, involving the left sides of the third and fourth vertebrae, and made reference to one previous case in the literature, that noted by Grunbaum (1891), wherein the left sides of the sixth and seventh cervical vertebrae were involved. By an oversight reference was omitted to a still earlier case described by Bianchi (1889), that of a left-sided intercostal articulation between the sixth and seventh cervical vertebrae in a woman of thirty years. My former communication induced Dr T. D. Stewart (1934) to place on record an example from a spine in the U.S. National Museum-that of an adult male North American Indian, from a prehistoric site in Kentucky, manifesting a rightsided adventitious diarthrosis between the costal elements of the fifth and sixth cervical vertebrae.