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Some HnglozSaron Antiquities, found at 
Wiichnor, Fulp, 1899. 
By James O’SULLIVAN. 
Read befove the Soctety, October 19th, 1899. 
ARLY in July this year, Messrs. Bass & Co’s. men, 
when working in their sand-pit, which adjoins that 
of the Midland Railway Co., found two earthenware Urns. 
The pits are situated on the south side of the Junction ot 
the Midland and London and North Western Railways, at 
Wichnor. One of the Urns, made of very coarse earthen- 
ware, was shewn to me, and I immediately recognized the 
similarity between it and one illustrated in our Transactions, 
Vol. I, Plate v., Fig. 3, found in Messrs. Chamberlain and 
Ballard’s brickfield, at Stapenhill, in 1881. 
The Urn marked No. 1, which was slightly damaged by 
the workman’s pick, was taken away by him, but when he 
saw, on my visiting the pit, that some importance was 
attached to it, he most willingly handed it over to me. 
Although the material of which it is made is quite charac- 
teristic of that of Anglo-Saxon Urns, yet, its shape is 
exceptional, certainly in the illustrations of Urns of the 
period I see none like it. 
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