70 accounts, etc., of the british museum. 



Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and 

 Ethnography. 



I. — A rrangement. 



Prehistoric Section. — An iron gallery has been constructed 

 above the existing wall-cases ail round the room, and its 

 north side fitted with the wall-cases from the Roman Room ; 

 in these it is intended to exhibit certain of the less popular 

 series of the prehistoric remains, in order to restrict the 

 contents of the Central Saloon to historical objects. 



The contents of the drawers below the table-cases have 

 been examined and indexed. 



The collection of late Celtic remains has been re-labelled 

 throughout. 



In order to make room for the Rothschild Bequest, the 

 table-cases containing antiquities of Roman Britain have 

 been removed into the Central Saloon, and a selection of the 

 objects originally exhibited in the Anglo-Roman Room has 

 been temporarily arranged in the two pier-cases at the head 

 of the staircase. 



Anglo-Roman Room. — The antiquities and exhibition cases 

 have been removed from this room in order to accommodate 

 the Rothschild Bequest, which will be exhibited early next 

 year. Want of space for exhibition has involved the removal 

 of the bulk of this collection to a room in the basement, 

 where it will remain till the compression of the prehistoric 

 collections has provided a saloon for Romano-British 

 remains. The labelling of the pottery collection has been 

 completed. 



Anglo-Saxon Room. — A few alterations have been made in 

 the arrangement of the antiquities in the table-cases with a 

 view to indicating the geographical distribution of the 

 various types. A series of objects from burials at Sleaford, 

 Lincolnshire, have been mounted and exhibited to illustrate 

 the typical contents of a grave of the pagan period. The 

 labelling of the collection has been practically completed, and 

 the contents of the drawers below the table-cases have been 

 examined and indexed. 



Mediwval Room. — The collection of ivory carvings has 

 been re-labelled and re-arranged, many of the specimens 

 having been remounted. The remounting, labelling and 

 arrangement of British seals have been completed, and a 

 considerable portion of the foreign specimens treated in the 

 same way. Fragments of chain mail, English and foreign, 

 have been arranged and labelled in a frame which has been 

 afiixed to the wall. The collections of counters, chess and 

 draughtsmen, as well as a number of Battersea and Liverpool 

 enamels have been re-arranged and labelled. A new list of 

 the contents of the drav/ers below the table-cases has been 

 prepared: a number of electrotypes and gutta-percha 



