lOO NOTES — ORIGINAL AND SELECTED. 



part of two other hoops crossing each other at the top, at right angles, which formed 

 the upper part, being about one-third longer than the width. These hoops were 

 wholly covered with artificial flowers of paper, dyed horn and silk, and more or 

 less beautiful according to the skill or ingenuity of the performer. In the 

 vacancy of the inside from the top hung white paper cut in form of gloves, 

 whereon was wrote the deceased's name, age, &c., together with long slips of 

 various coloured paper or ribbons ; these were many times intermixt with gilded 

 or painted empty shells of olown eggs as farther ornaments, or it may be as 

 emblems of bubbles or bitterness of this life : whilst other garlands had only a. 

 solitary hour-glass hanging therein, as a more significant symbol of mortality." 



Washington Irving, in "The Sketch Book," tells us : " There is also a most 

 delicate and beautiful rite observed in some of the remote villages of the south 

 [of England], at the funeral of a female who has died young and unmarried. A 

 chaplet of white flowers is borne before the corpse. . . . These chaplets are 

 sometimes made of white paper, in imitation of flowers, and inside of them is 

 generally a pair of white gloves." 



Llewellynn Jewitt, writing in " The Reliquary," vol. i. (iSfio), gave an account 

 of the former custom of hanging the garlands in the churches of Derbyshire, and 

 Beck's "Gloves, their Annals and Associations" (1883), contains much interesting 

 matter relating to the subject. Information will also be found in " Notes and 

 Queries," October 12th, 1889. 



A Romano-British Cemetery at Chigwell. — At a recent meeting of the 

 Essex Archaeological Societ)', our member, Mr. I. Chalkley Gould, read a paper 

 upon this ancient burial ground and exhibited some pottery found there. 



By the aid of a plan it was shown that a gravel bed extends for some distance 

 northwards from near Woolston Hall in a line nearly parallel with the present 

 high road to Abridge. Along this line pits have here and there been dug for 

 many years, and these diggings have brought to light a vast number of fragments 

 of pottery, together with a few perfect cinerary urns, some " Samian " ware, bronze 

 articles, coins, etc., also a coffin of lead showing the practice of inhumation in 

 addition to the abundant evidence of cremation upon the spot. 



Fifty years ago much pottery, including some figured ware of decidedly 

 " Roman " character, was found at the south of the line of gravel ; in after years 

 as the digging proceeded northwards other chips and sherds were unearthed and 

 recently at the north of the line the pits have yielded two little sepulchural vessels 

 and many broken pieces. It may be that had occasion arisen for digging in the 

 clay to the east other traces of the same kind would have been discovered ; but 

 Mr. Gould gave reasons showing it to be iaiprobable that the cemetery extended 

 west or much farther north, and suggested that we must look southwards for the 

 site of the habitations of those who required this large cemetery to accommodate 

 their dead. 



An illustrated paper will probably be included in the next issue of the Essex 

 Archaeological Society's " Transactions." 



A Mound without a History. — At Bannister Green, Felstead, about a 

 m'le east of the village, there is a grass-grown mound, known as " The Quakers' 

 Mount." It is from 15 to 20 feet high, and somewhat oval, with a flat top, being 

 about 22 paces long at the top, and 18 broad. Its sides incline an angle of 45", 

 and it was formerly surrounded by a moat about 8 or 10 feet broad. Not quite 

 half of this moat still exists, the rest having been filleJ in, perhaps very long 



