DEPARTMENT OF BRITISH AND MEDIEVAL ANTIQUITIES. OU 



Basement. — A complete re-arrangement of the Ethnographical 

 collections stored in the basement is in progress. The unpacking o£ 

 the collections placed in cubes and removed for safety has been 

 completed. The Sturge collection of stone implements has been 

 transported, partly unpacked, and stored. 



Registration, 8fc. — The registration of current acquisitions has 

 been continued and 1,626 objects have been added including 

 ethnographical specimens. A slip catalogue of the Harland gift of 

 salt-glaze pottery has been made. Numbers have been painted on 

 1,772 specimens, and 428 permanent labels written. Objects have 

 been mounted to the number of 771, as v^^ell as a large number of 

 rings and ring-impressions ; 105 mounting boards have been papered, 

 a number of case fittings lined with cloth, and 545 printed and 

 typewritten labels bordered ; 20 photographs have been taken, and 

 48 photographic prints made. A large number of ethnographical 

 specimens have been examined, cleaned, and remounted. 



An index of the photographs and of the ethnographical documents 

 is in progress, two volumes of the register have been indexed, and 

 the card-catalogue of the departmental library continued. 



A number of stucco figures of the Stein collection has been 

 mounted on specially prepared stands, the model of a Chinese house 

 has been reconstructed, and a special case prepared for the exhibition 

 of the jade terrapin from Northern India. 



The arrangement and labelling of the collections illustrating 

 Oriental religions have been greatly facilitated by the assistance of 

 Mr. Long worth Dames, and Mr. Oscar Raphael has given much 

 time to the arrangement of the Ceramic collection. 



Two lectures have been delivered in the Iron Age Gallery, and 

 one to the Geologists' Association. 



Students. — 804 students and visitors have been received in the 

 Department. 



2 . — Acquisitions. 

 (1) Prehistoric and Early British Antiquities : — 



(a) Stone Age. — Series of worked flints from the Middle Glacial 

 gravel (below the Chalky Boulder-clay) in a sand-pit north of 

 Ipswich, described in Journal of Royal Anthropological histitufe, 

 xlix, 74 ; and a series of flint implements showing the transition 

 from rostro-carinate to hand-axe form. Presented hy J. Reid Moir, 

 Esq. 



Large flint palaeolithic hand-axe from Pokesdown, Hants. 

 Presented hy W. M. Neicton, Esq. 



Implement of rare form, found 6 feet down in gravel between 

 Pokesdown and Boscombe stations, Hants. Presented hy Dr. 

 T. G. Longstajf. 



Seven palaeoliths from gravel at Botwell, Middlesex ; two cones 

 of Aurignac type from Suffolk, and selected specimens from various 

 sites in England. Presented hy G. Buscall Fox, Esq. 



