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Caerswsiana. By F. N. PRYCE. The following notes deal briefly with a few objects of Roman date which have come to light at various times in the neighbourhood of Caersws and which it seems desirable to place on record pending Professor Bosanquet's forthcoming report. I have to thank Messrs. T. Simpson Jones and A. Stanley Davies for kind assistance, and Dr. Davies Pryce for examining the pottery with me. I. The fine brooch illustrated in its present state in fig. 1, and restored in fig. 2, was found in 1927 by Mr. E. W. Savage during Fig. 1. Full size. digging operations in the yard of Caersws railway station, out- side the S.W. angle of the fort and in the vicinity of the bath- house and civil settlement. It is of bronze, the length over all being ljins. (='041 metre). Fig. 2. Stipple-yellow. Line-green. The body is a flat disk, its upper surface decorated with a conventional rosette enamelled by the champ-leve process in two colours, green and yellow. A green central dot is surrounded by a yellow ring beyond which is a green Maltese cross; between the arms of this are smaller yellow arms with yellow fillings at the circum- ference. The enamelled surface was surrounded by a trough and rim, which is now largely broken away; when complete this may have had some ornament, perhaps a couple of projecting studs, as is indicated in fig. 2 by the dotted .lines.. At one end is a ring for