72' ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Two thousand five hundred and fourteen students and 

 visitors have been received in tlie Department ; and two 

 parties (Viking Club and St. Mary's Improvement Society) 

 conlucted tlirough certain sections of tlie Department by 

 members of the Staff. 



II. — A cquisitions. 

 (1.) Prehistoric and Early British Antiquities : — 



Worked flints of " eolithic " type from Winterbourn 

 Bassett and Hackpen Hill, Wilts ; Hatfield, Herts, and 

 Bletchley. Bucks ; palseolithic implements from Hertford 

 and Welwyn, Herts, and Broom, near Axminster ; a neolithic 

 core with replaced flakes, from Ayot, Herts ; and three flint 

 arrow-heads from Cornwall ; found and given by Rev. H. G. 

 O. Kendall. 



Quartz fragments, possibly worked, from a stratum at 

 Prah Sands, Cornwall, described by the donor in Quart. Jour. 

 Geol. Sac, vol. LX. (1904), p. 106; given by Clement Reid, 

 Esq., F.R.S. 



A series of palaeolithic implements, some with ochreous 

 patina, from Knowle Farm Quarry, Savernake Forest, Wilts ; 

 given by J. W. Brooke, Esq. 



Palseolithic implement from the drift at Farnham, Surrey ; 

 given by E'rank Corner, Esq. 



Polished stone celt from Cowlam, and flint scrapers and 

 ariow-heads from Speeton, E. R. Yorks ; given by C. H. 

 Read, Esq., r.s.A. 



Perforated hammer-head of flint, from Newborough, 

 Northants ; given by Frank Husband, Esq., M.R.C.s. 



Perforated hammer-head of dolerite, incrusted, from Llan- 

 dawke, Caermarthenshire ; given by John Williams, Esq. 



Mahogany relief -model of Arbor Low stone circle, Derby- 

 shire, illustrated in Man, 1903, No. 84; see Archoeologia, 

 vol. LVIIL, p. 498. 



Plaster-cast of the stone mould for making flat celts and 

 ingots, found at Foudland, Insch, Aberdeenshire ; given by 

 J. G. Callander, Esq. 



Bronze palstave with loop, found at Howden-le-Wear, Co. 

 Durham ; given by Joseph Hopper, Esq. 



" Food-vessel" found at Plumpton, near Penrith, Cumber- 

 land, from the Holme-Simpson Collection. 



Large vessel of black pottery found near the lake- 

 dwelling at Ulrome, E. R. Yorks, by the donor, Thomas 

 Boynton, Esq., r.s.A. 



A gold bracelet of the Bronze period, weighing 2,625 

 grains, with slight engraving, found in 1828 near Aspatria, 

 Cumberland, and illustrated in Archoiologia Juliana, vol. II., 

 p. 267; bequeathed by William Forster, Esq. 



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