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»tand. For a light, we find small rude crucible-like veflsels 

 of baked clay, which are suited for the lamp purpose, and 

 would conveniently stand in such a receptacle." Hutchins 

 mentions a bowl made of Kimmeridge coal, which had been 

 found upon the shore at Kimmeridge. It measured ''about 

 six inches in diameter, but shallow, and six inches high; in 

 it were several pieces of Coal-money." This must have 

 nearly resembled mine. I also found at Povington the half of 

 a small vessel, which might have been the lamp itself, or 

 rather the vessel, which contained the wick and fat which wa« 

 placed in the larger one. It measui-ed 3 inches in diameter 

 •and § of an inch deep. 



The remaining specimens of interest were — Several pieces of 

 ** Coal-money," with portions of rings attached to them; 



A piece roughly rounded with a cutting instrument 3f -in. in 

 diameter, and ^-in. thick, having a square hole of IJ-in. in 

 diameter, it appears to have been split off fi'om the bottom of 

 a large, perhaps, conical piece, such as is figured at (PI. ix.) 



A portion of a circular piece of coal of 2^-in. in diameter by 

 t^-in. thick, which presented no markings of the lathe upon 

 either surface, but the edge was smoothly turned, having 

 three parallel incised lines running round. 



I have fo\md also at Povington, embedded with the ''Coal- 

 money" at the same depth, as many as four small smoking 

 pipes. Not to insist upon any precise period at which 

 such may have been manufactured or used in Britain, 

 I nevertheless would suggest the probability that smoking 

 may have been practised previously to the commonly ac- 

 cepted date of the introduction of tobacco. In fact many of 

 our antiquaries insist upon very early smoking of something 

 unknown, although others believe them to be of Elizabethan 

 antiquity at earliest. These pipes are precisely similar to 

 some figured in Mr. Wilde's "Catalogue of the Antiquities in 

 the Museum of the Eoyal Irish Academy," which he describes 



