and near it, in one of the dishes, was a small two-handled globular glass ampulla, precisely similar to one found at Worthing by the late Mr. F. Dixon, with a Roman interment. In four of the smaller dishes were fragments of white calcined bone. On each of the brackets, in the angles, was placed an open lamp of earthenware, like a wide shallow cream-jug; and at the opposite end of the cist were the soles of a pair of shoes, of small size, studded all over with hexagonal-headed bronze nails. Several of the objects here described are now lost: the large urn and nineteen specimens of the pottery were exhibited. Also a second stone cist, found at Avisford, much broken, and a jug of grey ware with one handle, full of burnt bones; the surface slightly ornamented with scored lines; height, eleven inches and a half. The whole of these Roman reliques were presented, at the close of the meeting, to the Museum of the Chichester Philosophical Society and Mechanics' Institute.-The Lady Elizabeth Reynell, Avisford House.

Roman pottery, found in East Street, Chichester, in digging the foundations for Mr. Mason's house; fragments of "Samian" ware, embossed with figures, and plain; also portions of coarse RomanoBritish ware, some of which are rudely ornamented in an unusual manner with rows of round impressed markings between parallel bands. Roman tesselated pavement extends under great part of the adjacent churchyard and church of St. Andrew, and also in Mr. Mason's garden, at a depth of four or five feet.—Mr. W. Hayley Mason.

Roman pottery, portions of Samian and other wares, discovered in Chichester Cathedral, in forming a vault.—Mr. Joseph Butler. Portion of a fine Samian bowl, with ornaments in low relief. Found on the north side of Chichester; it was formerly in the possession of Mr. King, the Chichester antiquary. Samian cup and patera, a jug of white ware, and other Roman pottery, found at Chichester. -Mr. R. Elliot.

6 An account of this discovery is given by Dallaway, History of Sussex, vol. ii, Rape of Arundel, additions, p. 367, with a plate by Mr. King, showing the arrangement of the numerous objects within the cist. Another sepulchral cist, with similar deposit, was found at Donington, Sussex (Dallaway, vol. i, additions to p. 54). A stone cist, found at Southfleet, Kent, in 1802, contained two urns, and two pair of highly ornamented sandals (Archæologia, vol. xii, p. 38, pl. 39). The remains

of shoes thickly set with nails were found at Worthing, by Mr. Dixon, with a Roman interment (Geology of Sussex, p. 45). The interesting plate by the late Mr. T. King may be obtained from Mr. Mason, at Chichester; and he supplied an etching from his original drawing, given in Mr. Roach Smith's Collectanea Antiqua, vol. i, p. 123. Mr. King there states that there was a bracket and lamp in each of the four angles within the cist, but this appears to be an error.

A remarkable gold ring, found near the Roman villa at Bignor, Sussex; it is exquisitely wrought with chased work, filagree, and globular ornaments. It is set with an intaglio, a figure of a warrior holding a buckler before him, and apparently ascending a height. This is one of the finest examples of Roman art in the precious metals hitherto found in England. Figured in Lysons' Britannia Romana.—Mr. J. Heywood Hawkins, Bignor Park.

Vases of thin glass, and several small fictile vessels of the Roman period, found at Chilgrove, in the parish of Westdean, near Chichester, in 1845. The field where they were disinterred was arable land, long in cultivation, and the reliques lay at a depth of about two feet. Several human skeletons were found, in good preservation, especially the skull of a young female, about fifteen years old. By her side lay a glass vessel, two finger-rings, and three bronze armlets. (Figured Archæologia, vol. xxxi, plate ix.) Several other armlets of metal were found. A portion of the upper part of a glass vessel, with its flat base, was found: the former has the surface reticulated with threads of glass attached to it; the form seems to have been a tall tumbler; diameter of the rim, two inches and fiveeighths; of the foot, one inch and three quarters. Also a bronze palstave, and a bead of vitreous paste, found in Sussex. A memoir on the discoveries at Chilgrove has been given by the Rev. L. Vernon Harcourt in the Archeologia, cited above.—Mr. W. Leyland Woods, Chilgrove.

Bronze spear-head, in unusually fine preservation, and a bronze blade weapon, found about 1847 in draining at Sheet, a hamlet on the river Rother, near Petersfield, Hants, and close to the boundaries of that county and Sussex. The blade (length fifteen inches) is of a type comparatively rare in this country, although often found in Ireland. Stone moulds for casting weapons of this form have however been found in Devonshire, and are figured in Archæol. Journal, vol. ix, p. 185.-Mr. Stoveld, Stedham Hall, Midhurst.

Two bronze blades, found in 1849, in a barrow at Ablington, in the parish of Figheldean, Wilts, with boars' tusks, and small deer's horns, which show traces of having been cut by some sharp tool. One of the blades measures seven inches and a half by two inches and three-eighths, greatest width; the other is only three inches in length. In the same barrow were found sepulchral cists containing burnt earth, a quantity of teeth of various animals, and other remains. Similar bronze blades found in Wiltshire, are given by

Sir R. C. Hoare, Anc. Wilts, vol. i, plates xi, xxviii, xxxiv.—Mr. Dyke Poore.

A javelin-head of flint, found near Swaffham, Norfolk; bronze celts, a palstave of uncommon form without any stop-ridge, and a bronze spear, from Swaffham; also numerous small antiquities of bronze, buckles, brooches, pins, armlets, beads of glass, &c., found on the sandy tract near Wangford and Lakenheath, Suffolk. Roman coins and reliques are often found there. (See the account of that curious locality, Arch. Journal, vol. x, page 353.)-The Rev. J. Greville Chester.

A collection of stone celts of various sizes and forms, javelin or lance heads of flint, and bronze palstaves, all found in Ireland.— The Lord Talbot de Malahide.

A bronze bit for a bridle, found in a bog in Ireland, and two of the singular bronze objects resembling a large spur, supposed to have been attached to the headstall of a bridle. They were discovered at Raheen, county of Roscommon. These remarkable reliques have been found only in Ireland. (See one figured in Gough's edition of Camden's Britannia, vol. iv, pl. xv.)-The Hon. Mrs. Campbell.

Two arrow-heads of flint, found in Glen Avon, Banffshire, and called "elf-bolts" by the Scottish peasantry, being regarded as charms against elfin sprites and witchcraft. They are formed with great skill and symmetry. One is an example of the simple primitive and leaf-shaped point; the other is barbed, and has a tang between the barbs for insertion in the cleft shaft. (Of popular superstitions relating to these objects in North Britain, see Dr. Wilson's Prehistoric Annals of Scotland, page 124, and Dalyell's Darker Superstitions of Scotland, pp. 354, 358.)-The Duke of Richmond; who presented them to the Institute.

Two stone weapons, found in Scotland, one of them a maul or axe-head of unusual and massive dimensions. It is perforated for a haft; the length is eight inches and a half; greatest breadth, five inches and a half; greatest thickness, two inches and three-eighths. (See woodcut.) This ponderous weapon, formed of a piece of stratified rock, was found in one of the three trenches which surround the top of the hill called "Cumming's Camp," at Barra, county of Aberdeen, and often termed a Pictish fortress. The other is a celt of more ordinary form: one end has a cutting edge, the other is sharply pointed. Length, nine inches. It was found in a

"Druidical circle" in the same part of Scotland.-The Rev. S. W King.

Antiquities of various periods, chiefly from the extensive fortress on Hamden Hill, near Ilchester, Somerset (area, 210 acres), comprising an arrow-head of white quartz, found there about 1820 (see

woodcut) the form is unusual in England; s pointed implement of bone, supposed to have been used as an arrow-head (compare Worsaae, Copenhagen Museum, figs. 55, 58); two bowshaped bronze fibulæ, of Roman character; a diminutive Roman bronze lamp; a bronze spearhead; three iron arrow or javelin heads; iron implements, found with supposed portions of a chariot, as tires of wheels, &c., in 1840, and a bronze ornament, which had possibly been attached to the harness or to the chariot. They

are precisely similar to two found on Hamden Hill, about 1823, with iron tires, fragments of chariots, &c., and figured in Archæologia, vol. xxii, pl. vi, p. 41; where an account of that discovery is given by Sir R. Colt Hoare, with a plan of the fortress.-A bronze palstave, with a loop at each side, similar to one found in Ireland, and in Lord Talbot's collection (figured in Arch. Journal, vol. ix, p. 194) it was found in 1842, in a field near South Petherton, Somerset; and three bronze celts, found at Wigborough, near the same place, in 1830. A diminutive silver die, in the form of a man seated in a crouching attitude: the pips being marked on

7 Mr. Norris pointed out that in Sir G. Wilkinson's Ancient Egyptians, vol. i, first series, page 345, an object of similar

form appears, placed on the harness over the withers of the horses, and supporting a ball.

the head, back, and various other parts of the body. This curious little object is regarded as Roman, similar dice having been found in a Roman tomb at Marseilles. The place where it was found is not however known. A similar die is in Lord Londesborough's Museum. (See Minutes of Soc. of Antiquaries, vol. ii, p. 18.) Also a specimen of penannular ring-money, used at the present time as currency in the interior of Africa, and interesting for comparison with the objects of gold, of precisely similar form, often found in Ireland, and of which likewise examples have occurred in Sussex. It is a ring of iron, with dilated blunt ends, and of dimensions suited for an armlet. Iron specimens are rare; this was brought from Cape Palmas, in 1851, by a person who had it direct from a native merchant, who had recently arrived from the interior of Africa.-Mr. Henry Norris, Sen., South Petherton.

Collection of reliques found in a "Picts' House," at Kettleburn, County of Caithness, a remarkable circular building, of which the site was explored in 1853. They consist of a bone comb, bronze tweezers, spindle stones, balls, and other objects of bone, small querns, disks of stone, &c. A ground-plan, with representations of some of these ancient reliques, is given in the Arch. Journ. vol. x, p. 211.-Mr. A. H. Rhind.

A bronze socketed celt, with peculiar markings at the sides, found near Lewes.-Mr. W. W. Attree.

A bronze socketed celt, in remarkable preservation, found in 1849, at a depth of twenty feet, on St. Catherine's Hill, near Guildford, Surrey. Mr. Robert Fitch.

A bronze socketed celt, found in the parish of Lymne, Kent-a good example-length, five inches; a "Samian" saucer and small cup, and a small globular urn (Saxon?), found at Mersham, near Ashford; a bottle of Roman grey ware, curiously scored, and a glass cup found with it, about 1830, at Lymne (both are engraved in Mr. Roach Smith's Antiquities of Richborough and Lymne, p. 263); also a bronze buckle and square ornament of a belt, found near the last, with Saxon interments (figured ibid., p. 264); a bronze gilt fibula, found on the hill, on the road from Folkestone to Dover, with a human skeleton, remains of armour, and other objects;

8 See an account of manillas, or ringmoney, manufactured at Birmingham for the African market, Arch. Journ. vol. xii, p. 179. Sir W. Betham gives representa

tions of an iron manilla, and of one of mixed metal, in his memoir on various types of Irish "Ring-money," Trans. Royal Irish Acad., vol. xvii, p. 91.