PE ST ia Se IR ES ee 
Account of some Antiques, Ec. 533 
decayed Intelligence in Antiquities,” when men+ 
tioning the different fossils, shells, bones, &c, 
found in Britain says: ‘‘ Moreover potters in 
“ working their clay, which is gotten in some 
* espetial places, do fynd in it certain things 
*¢ which are as hard as stone, and of the very 
“ forme and shape of the toungs of some sortes 
© of fishes, each with the root unto it, to make 
** it the very markable and right proportion of 
* such a kynd of toung in all respects, some 
* being more than two inches long, and some 
* lesse than one inche, and they that thus find 
‘© them do not otherwise call them but the toungs 
of fishes, which being so, and turned into very 
* hard stone is a strange thing in nature.” 
Whether this same article be of the sort Versti- 
gan alludes to, cannot at this day be determined ; 
however, from the shape and its being found in 
the scite of an ancient pottery, it may be supposed 
to be one of those he describes. 
No, 12 isa ring of brass found in Castlefield 
in 1796, with a bluish sort of a bead of pot ware 
upon it and ribbed, each rib terminating at the 
hole through which the ring passes; another of 
the same sort, supposed to belong to the other, 
was so broken as notto be worth gathering. I am 
inclined to think this ring was the bracelet of a 
British or Roman lady, and the beads upon it the 
amulet or charm to protect the wearer from mis- 
