TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION D. — DEPT. ANTHROPOLOGT. 701 



3. Exidhition of a Roman bronze galeated Bust. 

 Bji Professor T. McK. Hughes, M.A. 



This bronze, from the collection of the late Rev. S. Banks, was found near 

 Cottenham, north of Cambridge. 



The head was of the Marcus Aurelius type ; but the particular interest of the 

 object was in the helmet, which represented a human face, the character of which 

 exactly resembled that of the JDi/in// Gaul. 



4. Exhibition of Four Bronze Socketed Spears, probably ancient, from 

 China. By Professor T.McK. Hughes, M.A. 



These spears, brought by the Rev. S. Banks from China, were chiefly marked 

 by the deep rectangular, or angular, or rounded notch running up from the edge of 

 the socket to the position in which a rivet would be usually placed in such an 

 implement. The edge of the blade-portion was waved in some of the specimens. 



■S. On a supposed Inscribed Stone, near Llanerchymedd, in Anglesea.^ 

 By Professor T. McK. Hughes, M.A. 



The author described a boulder standing in a field on the east of the Railway 

 between Plascoedana and Mynyddmawr, about a mile south of Llanerchymedd, 

 Anglesea. It is a portion of a mass of rock, in which two varieties of rock alternate. 

 There are also variations in structure in the rock, coinciding in direction, but not 

 •exactly in extent, with the varieties in texture. 



On the north side, as the stone lies, of the principal joints, the rock is cut 

 across by small joints at right angles to the principal joints and ending abruptly at 

 them. These are crossed obliquely by a less frequent and more irregular set. As 

 the weather has opened out these divisional planes to a small depth, the effect 

 produced is that of a series of parallel lines, of uniform length, cut into the stone 

 along the edges, with here and there an oblique stroke, altogether bearing a strong 

 :superficial resemblance to the characters known as Oghams. As it is known that 

 Runic characters are obscure — in fact, quite unreadable except by experts — local 

 talk has naturally placed the Mynyddmawr boulder among the inscribed stones of 

 Wales. The joints to which the characters are due can, however, be traced into 

 the portions of the boulder where a different texture and structure have caused a 

 •different weathering ; and a close examination shows that the supposed characters 

 must be referred entirely to natural causes. 



'C. On some late Celtic Engravings on a Slate Tablet, found at Towyn. 



By J. Park Harrison, M.A. 



This tablet was found, buried under drift sand, at Towyn, in Merionethshu-e, in 

 1879. It is covered with incised figm-es representing, in outline, arms and objects 

 of domestic use. Several other relics were discovered at the same time, some of 

 •them associated with it, but not assisting materially in deciding the date of this 

 interesting tablet. Some of the hatchet-head forms, however, resemble so closely 

 iron axe-heads in the museum of the Royal Irish Academy at Dublin, that if 

 we knew the date of the latter, it would go far to decide the question. But they 

 were found in cranoges of uncertain age. The ornamentation of the figiu-es 

 on the tablet is clearly Celtic, and resembles, except in the rudeness of the execu- 



' The Rev. W. Wynn Williams has already called attention to this boulder in the 

 Archeeologia Camhrctmx, and refers the supposed characters to natural causes, which 

 he challenges geologists to explain. 



