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



A square-headed brooch of gilt bronze and pair of tweezers 

 from a grave at East Shefford, Berks : also two bronze finger- 

 rings, iron sword-knife, and bronze bird-brooch with garnets, 

 all from the site of pile-dwellings at Walthamstow ; given by 

 €. H. Read, Esq., F.s.A. 



Iron buckle, of the Merovingian period, with gilt plate 

 and garnet inlay : from the collection of the late Cecil Brent, 

 Esq., F.s.A. 



(4.) Mediaeval and Later : — 



(a.) British. — ^A. morse-ivory tau-cross head, of extreme 

 interest and importance, found in the rectory garden at 

 Alcester, Warwickshire, and given by " the Friends of the 

 British Museum." It is carved in excellent style, with Our 

 Lord on one side trampling on monsters, and the Crucifixion 

 on the other ; while the volutes have naturalistic foliage and 

 intertwining monsters, surmounted by two grotesque animals 

 with plait-work behind the ears. The whole was originally 

 gilt, and is English work of about 1020 : illustrated in 

 Archmologia, Vol. LVIII., p, 407, pi. XXVII. 



Bronze circular matrix, with hexagonal handle, of the 

 seal of Sir Gilbert Wace, Sheriff of Oxfordshire, 1372 ; died 

 1408. 



Bronze pointed-oval matrix of the seal of the Black 

 (Preaching) Friars at Yarmouth : the House was founded 

 about 1270, and this seal is of the 13th century. 



Copper pendant, enamelled in colours with female monster, 

 found at ClifFe-at-Hoo, Kent : another, with standing figures, 

 birds and animals, found at Hessett, near Bury St. Edmunds : 

 and the metal chapes of two leather knife-sheaths, from the 

 site of pile-dwellings at Walthamstow ; all given by C. H. 

 Read, Esq., F.s.A. 



A carved stone corbel in the form of a man's head, English 

 work of the 14th century ; given by Sydney Vacher, Esq. 



Brass phial, ornamented with incised lines, found in Lov^^er 

 Thames Street, near the Tower ; given by H. G. Pohl, Esq. 



Fragments of palimpsest memorial brass of Walter Bow- 

 nynge and his wife Melocint, 1473 ; from Trunch, Norfolk. 



Part of a memorial brass, a civilia.n about 1530 : and 

 another of late loth century. 



Gold finger-ring with sard intaglio, representing the Seven 

 Bishops of 1688 ; given by Max Rosenheim, Esq., F.s.A. 



Slender gold finger-ring wdth hands to hold the setting, 

 and Lombardic inscription within the hoop + lO SVI D€l 

 DRVQRI6I N€l IVI€I DV ; found in the Fleet ditch, City of 

 London : 14th century. 



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