ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATES, &C. OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 2^ 



In the Collection of Casts from Seals the moulds of the foreign seals have been oiled, 

 sorted, and mounted. The type impressions of English personal seals have been arranged 

 and mounted, as well as those of the Scotch seals. The list of the Foreign seals has been 

 revised and put into alphabetical order. 



The work done in connection with the Christy Colleclion will be noticed under that 

 head. 



II. — Acquisitions. 



The miscellaneous acquisitions of the year are 871 in number, exclusive of the Christy, 

 Witt, and Blacas Collections, which would increase the number to nearly 9,000 objects. 

 They may be noticed as follows : 



I, British Antiquities. — The foreign illustrations of the earlier portions of this collection 

 have received the following additions : — 



Part of a bone implement, on which are drawn the heads of a deer and an ibex ; found 

 in the cave at Bruniquel, and fitting on to a portion formerly acquired by the Museum; 

 presented by the Vicomte de Lastic St. Jal, the owner of the cave. 



Three flint cores, found in the bed of the Indus, near Shikapoor, Upper Scinde; pre- 

 sented by Major General Twemlow, r.a. 



Ten bronze implements, found in the island of Thermia, the ancient Cythnus. 

 Among the Briiish Antiquities properly so called may be noticed the following: — 

 A series of flint implements, found on the manor of Possingworth, near Waldron, Sussex ; 

 presented by Louis Hutb, Esq. 



Two British urns, and ten flint implements, found in barrows at Filingdales, county 

 York ; another British urn found at Lincoln ; and four others, from barrows at Broughton, 

 county Lincoln. 



Four flint implements, from Glen Ravel, county Antrim ; presented by J. R. 

 Robinson, Esq. 



Two stone celts, a stone lamp, and other antiquities, found in Orkney, and presented by 

 William Watts, Esq. 



A stone quern from Dunino, near St. Andrew's, Scotland; presented by the Reverend 

 C. Rogers, ll.d. 



A bronze celt, found in Windsor Park, presented by Her Majesty the Queen. 

 One hundred and twenty-one bronze implements from various localities; presented by the 

 Trustees of the Christy Collection. 



A find of bronze implements from Kensington, another from High Roothing, Essex, 

 three other specimens from various localities, and a bronze horse's bit with enamel deco- 

 ration, found at Rise near Hull ; presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 

 A gold torques, found in Norfolk, and a gold ring from Devonshire. 



A pig of lead with the name of the Emperor Antoninus Pius, found at Bristol, and pre- 

 sented by the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, with the consent of 

 Arthur W. P. Bush, Esq. 



A Roman tomb composed of large tiles, two urns found in it, and an elegant glass bottle 

 found in an adjoining tomb; all discovered at Old Windsor by the Rev. F. J. Rawlins, and 

 presented by Her Majesty the Queen. 



An extensive collection of Roman antiquities found on the site of the :mcient Colonia 

 of Lindum, now Lincoln, including numerous specimens of pottery of local fabric, a vase 

 with a dedicatory inscription to Mercury, and a number of fibulse and other personal 

 ornaments. 



Six Roman inscriptions from Lincoln ; presented by Arthur Trollope, Esq. 

 A bronze fibula with a horseman m relief, from Kirkby Thore, Westmoreland; presented 

 by the Rev. W. Greenwell. 



A terni-cotta bottle found in Holbnrn ; presented by Arthur Lumley, Esq. 

 Six bone objects, probably used by the Romans in making pins, found in Moorfields, 

 London, and presented by the Rev. W. Sparrow Simpson. 



A collection of hand bricks, pottery, &c., from the island of Herm ; presented by John 

 Evans, Esq. 



An altar dedicated to the Topical divinities, Vitires ; presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 

 Three monoliths, inscribed with Ogham characters, found in a fort at Roovesmore, near 

 Cork ; presented by Lieut.-Colonel A. Lane Fox. 



An Anglo-Saxon urn from Sandy, Bedfordshire; presented by the Trustees of the Christy 

 Collection. 



A Danish comb found in York; presented by N. W. J. Westlake, Esq. 

 A bone disk, carved in an Irish style, but found in London ; presented by A. W. 

 Franks, Esq. 



Two Merovingian urns from Waban, near Montreuil ; presented by John Evans, Esq. 

 Two glass vases of the same period from Germany ; presented by the late George East- 

 wood, Esq. ; and two urns from Denmark. 



Two i)anels carved in stone, from the ruins of the Priory at Thetford ; presented by John 

 Evans, Esq., F.K.&., f.s.a. 



A pocket dial, made by James Kynvyn, 1593, for Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, 

 favourite of Queen Elizabeth, and bearing his arms ; presented by Edward Dalton, 



Esq., LL.D., F.S.A. 



An English watch in the form of a fritillary flower, with niello decoration, made by 

 Edward Bysse, in the 16th century. 



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