40 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BKITISH MUSEUM. 



Flint implements excavated on Hackpen Hill, and found at 

 Winterbourn Bassett, Wilts : described in Proc. Soc. Antiq., vol. 

 xxviii. Presented hy Rev. H. G. 0. Kendall, F.S.A. 



Implements and flakes found by the donor in brickearth at 

 Luton, near Chatham, Kent. Presented hy S. K. Turner, Esq. 



Flake-implement with facetted batt from Grime's Graves, 

 Weeting, Norfolk ; and two implements from Ightham, Kent. 

 Presented hy J. Reid Moir, Esq. 



(b) Bronze Age. — Two bronze armlets found (with another in 

 the Museum) in a grave near Ramsgate, Kent. Presented hy Sir 

 Hercules Read, LL.D. 



Circular shield and spear-head found on Brumby Common, near 

 Scunthorpe, Lines. Presented hy Rt. Hon. Lord St. Oswald. 



(c) Early Iron Age. — Series of worked bones, spindle- whorls, 

 rubbing-stones and loom-weights, from the marsh-village at 

 Glastonbury, Somerset. Presented hy the Glastonhury Antiquarian 

 Society. 



Boat-shaped bronze brooch of early Italian type, found near 

 Taunton, Somerset. Presented hy Sir Hercules Read, LL.D. 



(d) Foreign. — An important series illustrating the earliest Iron 

 Age of Europe, excavated in 1869 at Hallstatt, in the Salzkammergut, 

 Upper Austria, and collected by the first Lord Avebury (Sir John 

 Lubbock). The principal specimen is a bronze bucket, nearly perfect, 

 of the 8th cent. B.C., the best of its kind from the site ; and 

 the collection is illustrated in Archceologia, vol. Ixvii. Earlier 

 periods are represented by a series of flints from Le Moustier Cavern 

 in the Dordogne, and implements from La Ganterie, C6tes-du-Nord ; 

 Aarhus kitchen-middens, Denmark ; Swiss Lake Dwellings and 

 Algeria ; and bronze implements from Saxony, Spain, Denmark, and 

 Italy. All the specimens not required for the Museum were dis- 

 tributed among 29 provincial museums on behalf of the donor, 

 Rt. Hon. Lord Avehury. 



Bronze socketed celt from the Thayetmyo district of Burma. 

 Presented hy J. C. Mackenzie, Esq.,I.C.S. 



Two bronze open-work relief of animals preying on each other, 

 Archaic Scythian, described in Man, 1917, No. 1. Presented hy 

 Louis C. G. Clarke, Esq. 



(2.) Romano- British. 



Pair of cinerary urns found with others in an ironstone recess, 

 Bramby Common, Lines. Presented hy Rt. Hon. Lord St. Oswald. 



(3.) Anglo-Saxon and Foreign Teutonic. 



Bronze-gilt boss, probably from the cross of a shrine, with engraved 

 interlaced animals and spirals, niello and settings for amber or glass, 

 a fine example of Irish work of the 8th cent. Found in the church- 

 yard at Steeple Bumpstead, Essex, and for some years preserved 



