5S 6 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



lane, from that difcovery. They fecreted all the coins, and fold 

 them. Thefacra, or facrificing vefTels, were of filver. They fold 

 moft of thefe likewife, after breaking the bottoms out of fome, 

 and the handles and ornaments off others. They prefented thefe 

 following to Sir John, now in the pofTefiion of Sir Edivard. 



1. A Sympalum, weighing 26 ounces. 



2. The bottoms of three others ; ' one weighing a little more 

 than a pound, the other half a pound. 



3. The handles of three more, with beautiful figures in relief, 

 and gilt. Upon one is like the buft of a Roman emperor ; two 

 fmaller figures on each fide, one a fhepherd holding a crook in 

 his left hand, two or three Iheep lying by his fide ; the other re- 

 fembles a poor man looking towards the emperor iri a fupplica- 

 tory attitude, his body bending, and refling upon a ftaff, feem- 

 ingly with both hands, with fomething like a bundle on his 

 back. Below, on the middle of the handle, is a winged Mer- 

 cury, in a fitting pofture, with a Caditceus in his right hand, his 

 left inclining on a bench or feat, grafping fomething like a ball, 

 with a cock under him, in the attitude of crowing. At the bot- 

 tom arc two other deities, {landing ; one a Diana, in a loofe 

 robe, holding a fpear in her right hand, a dog looking up in her 

 face, her left hand refting on her hip ; the other is a Silenut, 

 naked to the feet, holding a bunch of grapes in his right hand, 

 and a nymphxa or water lilly in his left, with a canthera or jolly 

 flaggon by him, fwelling with the grape at the brim. 



On another handle are the figures of three animals flain for 

 facrifice ; one a lion, another a flag, and a third a wild boar. 



On 



