72 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and 

 Ethnography. 



I. — Arrangement. 



Prehistoric Section. — The iron gallery with wall-cases 

 containing antiquities of the Stone Age from this and other 

 countries was opened to the public on 13th January. Further 

 progress has been made in labelling the collection with type- 

 written cards, and a case containing modern examples of 

 hafted stone implements placed on the wall. The river-basin 

 map of England and Wales, with palaeolithic sites marked, 

 has been removed to the bottom of the spiral staircase leading 

 to the gallery, while a relief-map of the Thames valley near 

 London has been framed and affixed to the wall above to 

 illustrate palaeolithic finds in that area. 



In the Prehistoric room all the table-cases have been 

 cleared, re-painted, and refilled according to a new arrange- 

 ment, two being reserved for selected specimens of the Stone 

 Age. The wall-cases at the east and west ends have been 

 re-arranged, the former containing Stone Age objects from 

 Spain, Japan, India, Egypt, and the East ; the latter, 

 antiquities of the Bronze period from Ireland, Wales, the 

 Thames, and England generally. Plinths with painted labels 

 have been provided for a number of pottery vases from 

 England and Germany, and labels type-written for" the 

 majority of objects exhibited in the table-cases; while a 

 number of stone and bronze implements have been mounted 

 on boards and permanently labelled. 



Late-Celtic and Gaulish Sections. — Three table-cases 

 have been cleared, two being refilled with objects from the 

 Morel collection belonging to the Stone and Bronze Ages, 

 the La Tene, Roman and Merovingian periods, while in the 

 centre case are exhibited objects of the pre-Roman period 

 from the Ticino valley, in Italian Switzerland. Upwards of 

 400 Gaulish specimens from the Morel collection have been 

 mounted on boards and permanently labelled. 



Romano-British Section. — Two standard-cases have been 

 refitted, and filled with Roman vessels of glass and bronze 

 found in Britain, and also a selection of Samian and other 

 pottery illustrative of the various modes of decoration. 

 Plinths with painted labels have been provided for many of 

 these specimens. 



Anglo-Saxon Room.. — A remarkable series from a cemetery 

 discovered at Droxford, Hants, has been mounted, labelled, 

 and added to the collection. 



Mediceval Room. — Progress made with the permanent 

 labelling of the early and painted enamels, as well as the 

 collection of church utensils. 



