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Potsherd from the Kerry Hills. The pottery fragment illustrated below was picked up by a workman in the autumn of 1927, in the parish of Bettws-y-Crwyn, Shropshire. Unfortunately we have been unable to get full details, but it is said to have been found near a badger hole in Cefn Vron plantation while preparations for replanting trees were in progress. A large urn of similar material is reported to have been found in the vicinity some 20 years ago. The plantation adjoins the field in which the earthwork called Castle Bryn Amlwg (or Castle Cefn Fron) is situated. This well-preserved camp lies some 300 yards E. of the point where three counties meet, and about 1000 yards S.W. of the Anchor Inn. Since the precise find-spot of the sherd is unascer- tained, connection with the earthwork cannot be assumed, but it is interesting to get what is presumably evidence of Romano-British occupation in an area which is known to have been very important in pre- historic times, and which deserves careful consideration on account of its relation to the great entry into Wales along the Kerry Hills. Mr. F. N. Pryce, F.S.A., Assistant Keeper of the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum, has kindly examined the fragment, and his report is given below See 6in. O.S. Montgomeryshire, Sheet XLIXA., N.W. Radnorshire, Sheet V., N W. Shropshire, Sheet LXVIII., N.W.