BRITISH AND MEDI/EVAL ANTIQUITIES. 73 



Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and 

 Ethnography. 



I. — Arrangemnent, Cataloguing, etc. 



Prehistoric Section. — Permanent labels have been pro- 

 vided for British, French, and German neolithic flints. A 

 new table-case has been placed in position near the model of 

 Stonehenge, containing a similar model of the stone-circle 

 known as Arbor Low, Derbyshire, excavated for the British 

 Association in 1901-2 ; and the worked flints found during 

 the excavation are exhibited in the lower part of Table- 

 case G, adjoining. A classification of the diff'erent phases 

 of the Neolithic period has been added to the Stone Age 

 gallery, and bronze vessels believed to be water-clocks of 

 the Early Iron Age grouped together in Wall-case 14. 



Late-Keltic and Gaulish Sections. — The lower portions of 

 Table-cases and P have been refitted and utilised for the 

 exhibition of the Roman and other glass in the Morel 

 collection, acquired in 1901. 



Romano-British Section. — Progress has been made with 

 the catalogue of Roman pottery found in Britain, which is 

 to be published with that in the Department of Greek and 

 Roman Antiquities ; and a second diagram of Gallo-Roman 

 red-ware afiixed to the screen. The collection of red-ware 

 fragments has been arranged in drawers with labels. In the 

 Roman gallery on the ground floor several inscribed stones 

 found in Britain have been permanently labelled. 



Anglo-Saxon Room. — The remaining table-cases have 

 been furnished with sets of drawers, and the stored portion 

 of the collection re-arranged. New labels have been provided 

 for the series of weapons in table-case G. 



Mediceval Room. — The permanent labelling of the 

 plaquette collection has been continued, and the series of chess- 

 men, draughtsmen, etc., similarly treated. Various alterations 

 have been made in the fittings of the wall-cases and frames of 

 ornamental leather-work and needlework affixed to the wall. 



Glass and Ceramic Room. — The collection of Persian 

 pottery has been re-arranged and labelled. 



Asiatic Saloon. — The Chinese porcelain with armorial 

 and European subjects has been re-arranged, as well as the 

 whole series of Japanese pottery and porcelain. The Stein 

 collection from Chinese Turkestan, formerly exhibited on 

 loan in Wall-cases 92-100, has been checked, distributed, 

 and in part packed and despatched to India ; and progress 



