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penclicular or inclined without much, regularity. There is an 

 account of this in the Archseological Journal." A rough outline 

 figure is given, of which the under part resembles in form, Fig. 

 18 ; but the part below the rim is very different. 



Thrunton. 



With the aid of the Eev. J. C. Bruce, LL.D., F.S.A., I am 

 enabled to present a copy of the original notice of the famous 

 Thrunton find, from vol. V. of the Proceedings of Antiquaries, 

 2nd Ser., p. 429. 



"Meeting of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Jan. 30. 

 1873. Lord Eavensworth exhibited five weapons, consisting of 

 two swords and three spear heads, all represented in the accom- 

 panying wood-cuts ; of the discovery of which, the following 

 account has been furnished by the exhibitor. 



' The bronzes were found bj r some workmen, when digging 

 drains near Thrunton [not Thurston as it is in the original] 

 Farm, in the parish of Whittingham, Northumberland. The 

 spot must formerly have been a quagmire, and is supplied with 

 a copious spring of water. The arms were found sticking in the 

 moss with the points downwards, in a circle, about two feet below 

 the surface, perhaps left there by a party of soldiers who had 

 halted at the spring and been surprised. The discovery is 

 believed to have taken place in the summer of 1847. One of the 

 swords is engraved in Horce Ferales, Plate IX., Fig. 3.' " 



The Club visited Eslington, 13th September, 1860, when 

 " especial attention was devoted to ancient bronze weapons found 

 at Thrunton, which Lord Eavensworth had been so courteous as 

 to bring from Eavensworth for the examination of the Club." 

 (Hist, of the Club, vol. IV., p. 266.) Mr Tate wrote a notice of 

 these weapons, which has not found a place in the " Proceedings." 

 "The bronze weapons which were seen by the Club at Eslington, 

 consisted of two swords and three spear and javelin heads. The 

 largest of the swords is 30 inches long, and the javelin and 

 spear heads are from 9 inches to 27 inches in length. The swords 

 are of a fine Laaf shape, double edged, swelling in the middle, 

 and thence curving to a point. The handles had been covered 

 with wood or horn, which had been fastened by rivets ; the 

 wood or horn is gone, and the rivet-holes alone remain on the 

 metallic part of the handle. The shape is very graceful. Two 

 javelin heads are of the common simple form ; but the largest, 



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