THE investigations by the Prehistoric Society of iron age sites near Salisbury have completed for the time being the examination of the settlement at Odstock, which began on June 12 under the direction of Mr. C. W. Phillips, honorary secretary of the Society. About half of the six-acre site has been dug ; and the remainder will be examined next year. The settlement is dated at about 200 B.C., and, as anticipated, was found to have been occupied by a small agricultural community, growing wheat, oats, barley, peas and beans, though traces of wheat only have been discovered. Apparently they farmed on an extensive scale. As much as fifty tons of grain was stored in a single season. Light is thrown on their methods in the report of the recent investigation (The Times, Sept. 6). Many pits for the bulk storage of grain were found within the settlement enclosure, but as storage in damp conditions would encourage the grain to sprout, it was first toasted in large ovens before being placed in the pits. Remains of ovens used for ordinary cookery have also been found, as well as quantities of pottery, iron knives, bone implements, etc. There is evidence that among the domestic animals were pigs, cows and goats, and a large number of horses of a small type. Some time after the first occupation, the settlement was surrounded by an enclosing bank and ditch, which were in no sense a fortification. Within this enclosure, in addition to the pits already mentioned, were a large house, a timber structure forty-five feet in diameter with an external veranda, a second, which was thirty feet in diameter, and a number of other timbered erections.