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DESCRIPTION OF ANTIQUITIES 



exhibited at a Meeting of the Purbeck Society, held at The 

 Grange, February 10th, 1858. In a Letter to the Secretary, 

 from the Rev. J. M. Gresley. 



2, Ashley Cottage, Bournemouth. 

 Dear Mr. Austen', 



We have had much pleasure in making for your 

 Society, Anastatic drawings, the size of the originals, of the 

 Antiquities you left in our hands: respecting which I would 

 submit the following observations. 



The Key was found near the Church, at Swanage, and is now 

 deposited in the Purbeck Museum; presented by J. Taylor, 

 Esq. 



The bow is slightly oval : the ends of it, which rise to a point 

 within the loop at the stem, make the interior almost heart- 

 shaped. The stem is tubular, terminated at the bow by an oc- 

 tagon base, in shape not unlike the foot of a chalice. The web, 

 or bit, has a broad convex edge spreading on either side of it. 

 Its date may be assigned to the reign of Henry VII, and pro- 

 bably it belonged to a hutch, or Church-chest, wherein the 

 Sacramental Vessels, &c., were preserved. 



Fig. 1., on the other page, is a specimen of an Apostle's 

 Spoon, found in a cottage-garden at Studland in 1856. It is of 

 copper or latten, slightly coated with a green patina^ such as is 

 much admired upon ancient coins. The back of the figure and 

 handle is filed quite flat. The date of it may be the early part 

 of the 16th century. It was presented to the Purbeck Museum 

 by the Rev. Eldon S. Bankes. 



