316 The Temporary Museum. 
together with the engraving which contains his likeness, with that 
of other literary characters, at Abbotsford, from the painting by 
Thomas Faed, R.A., were contributed by Mr. Henry Clark. It is 
well that the county contains these memorials of so eminent a man. 
The contributions from the Westbury Iron Works Company were 
very interesting. They consisted principally of fossil remains and 
Roman antiquities found in digging the iron ore. Among the 
fossils were large bones of Pliosaurus and other Saurians of the 
Kimmeridge Clay period. Among the Roman remains were several 
specimens of samian ware, and other pottery, many coins, fibulz, 
and small bronze implements, and a crucible containing some of the 
metal, apparently lead,'which had been formerly melted in it. There 
were also sundry masses of hard claystone, perforated at one end, 
which are conjectured to be the loom weights of Roman weavers. 
The following, also, are some of the articles exhibited on this 
occasion :— 
By Mr. and Miss TAYLER— 
A collection of antiquities and coins. 
By Mr. Joaw Haywarp— 
Old engravings of Trowbridge Castle. 
By Miss Kine and the Rev. 8. Mann— 
Copies of the Bible of different dates. 
By Mr. MacknigEL— 
A case of large shells. Six cases of Wiltshire fossils, including a series of 
fine corals from Steeple Ashton, and specimens of Apiocrinus Parkinsoni. 
A case of Wiltshire and other tokens. A geological map of the neighbour- 
hood. Clubs and other native weapons. Dresses and cloth brought from the 
South Seas in the first voyage of the ship Duff. 
By J. BayFreLD CuarK, Esq.— Z 
A case of British birds. 
By Mrs. Epwarps, Hilperton— 
A large and very fine collection of china. Several cases of shells. Corals 
and other specimens of Natural History. A musket, apparently petrified 
1Mr. Cunnington remarks that though there is ample evidence that the 
Romans lived on this very spot for a long time, it appears that they failed to 
discover the value of the rich iron ore beneath their feet, through Which they 
dug their wells, and in which they buried their dead. This is the more remark- 
able as no farther off than Seend they had works for smelting iron. The Rey. 
W. H. Chamberlain has lately contributed to the Museum the remains of a fine 
Roman urn from Seend. 
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