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Axe-hammer of millstone grit found at Corbridge-on-Tyne. 

 1869 ; and flat stone with a shallow pit on each face found near 

 the Roman bridge at Riding Mill, on the Tyne, 1874. 



Flint specimens of neolithic date showing double patination, 

 found in Wigtonshire. Presented hy Ludovic Mann, Esq. 



(b.) Bronze Age. — Five " drinking-cups " (beakers) and two 

 " food-vessels " found in Scotland, from the collection of the 

 late Mr. H. W. Young. 



Six palstaves found together at Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex> 

 from the same mould. 



Socketed spear-head from the upper layer of West Furze 

 lake-dwelling, E.R. Yorks, illustrated in Archceologia, Ixii. 608c 

 Presented by Thos. Boynton, Esq., F.S.A. 



Specimens of bone and shale from Heather Burn cave. 

 Stanhope, co. Durham. Presented by Rev. Wm. Greenwell, 

 F.S.A. 



Bronze ornaments and weapons, mould for socketed celts, 

 bronze and bone pins, and various bone implements with 

 pottery fragments found in Heather Burn cave, co. Durham. 



(c.) Early Iron Age. — An important series of late Keltic 

 antiquities found at Welwyn, Herts, in 1906, and collected by 

 the late Mr. G. E. Dering. The bronzes are nearly all of 

 Italian origin, probably made at Capua, and include fragments 

 of a ijatella of frying-pan form, two jugs and the mounts of 

 a tankard all closely resembling those found at Aylesford, 

 Kent ; and in addition a pair of silver cups. An iron frame 

 of oblong plan with four broad uprights ornamented with 

 twisted columns, and three large fire-dogs with bull's-head 

 terminals are of native work, as are also the pear-shaped 

 " pedestal " urns and other pottery vessels, some of which 

 were in separate burials after cremation and others in two 

 large vaults which contained the iron and bronze objects. All 

 date from about the middle of the 1st century B.C., and may be 

 referred to the Belgic population : described in Archceologia, 

 Ixiii. 1. Presented by Mrs. A. J. Neall. 



Engraved bronze boat-shaped brooch, of Italian type, found 

 at Box, near Bath. Presented by Alfred Jones, Esq. 



Pottery urn and fragments of other vessels found in or 

 near ancient lake-dwellings at Ulrome, E.R. Yorks, described 

 in Archceologia, Ixii. 600. Excavated and presented by Thos. 

 Boynton, Esq., F.S.A. 



Socketed iron spear-head from the Thames at Brentford 

 Presented by Dr. G. H. Read, P.S.A. 



Iron fragments of a sword or currency-bar found in 

 Lyneham barrow, Oxon, and described in Proc. Soc. Antiq.,. 

 XV. 409. Presented by Lord Moreton. 



(d.) Foreign. — Flint specimens of Le Moustier period, found 

 in a Jersey cave known as Cotte St. Brelade, described in 

 Archceologia. Ixii. 450. Presented by the Societe Jersiaise. 



