80 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



A stone of oval form tapering to the top where it has 

 a transverse groove ; obtained in Smyrna, and given by 

 H. Swainson-Cowper, Esq., F.s.A. 



Bronze knife with pierced handle, belonging to the late 

 Bronze Age of Denmark; given by C. H. Read, Esq., F.S.A. 



Two bronze statuettes and a series to show the manu- 

 facture of ring-brooches found at Despena Perros, Sierra 

 Morena, Spain ; given by Horace Sandars, Esq., f.s.a. 



(2.) Romano-British: — 



Enamelled bronze brooch, found at Warwick ; given by 

 Mrs. Eustace Smith. 



Three bronze brooches of different types found at Lincoln ; 

 given by C. H. Read, Esq., f.s.a. 



Handle of a bronze spoon, found at Lakenheath Warren, 

 Suffolk ; given b}' G. F. Lawrence, Esq. 



An urn of grey ware, dredged from the Thames at Cook- 

 ham, Berks ; given by R. E. Goolden, Esq., F.S.A. 



(3.) Anglo-Saxon and Foreign Teutonic : — 



An important series of jewellery, glass and bronze, includ- 

 ing a massive gold ring of Roman work, from graves of the 

 Anglo-Saxon period at Milton and elsewhere in Kent, from 

 the Humphrey Wood Collection ; given through the National 

 Art Collections Fund. 



Terminal of a penannular brooch, set with garnets in 

 gold cell-work, from the Willett Collection ; given by Max 

 Rosenheim, Esq., f.s.a. 



A massive gold finger-ring, set with a sard intaglio, found 

 at Faversham, Kent. 



A gold ring of plaited strands, dating from the Viking 

 period and found in a stone coffin, St. Aldate's, Oxford. 



Ornamented bronze square-headed brooch,found in Staple- 

 ford Park, Saxby, Leics. ; given by Miss M. B. Dockray. 



Bronze buckle, with gilt plate deeply incised with animal 

 design of the 6th century, from Icklingham, Suffolk. 



Bronze brooch of penannular type, but with the flattened 

 terminals joined, from the Londesborough Collection. 



A large and important series of jewelled ornaments, beads, 

 toilet articles, weapons and other ironwork, bronze vessels, 

 glass and pottery of the Merovingian period, from the exten- 

 sive cemetery at Herpes, near Angouleme, Dept. Charente, 

 described by M. Philippe Delmain and others in Bulletin et 

 Memoir es de la Socidte Archeologique et Historique de la 

 Charente, 6th series, vol. 1 (1890-1), with album of plates. 



