26 ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATES, &C. OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



The end of a bronze scabbard from Athenry, Co. Galway ; a bronze boss, several fine 

 bronze horses' bits, fibular and pins, all found in Ireland. 



The Foreign illustrations of the bronze period have received some important additions : — 

 A very considerable series of Antiquities, about 470 in number, forming part of the 

 extensive Museum formed by the late Dr. Gustav Klemm of Dresden, chiefly from 

 Germany. It includes several objects of a very rare kind, among which should be spe- 

 cially noticed the following : — 



1. A helmet, broad dagger, and pair of armlets, all of bronze, found together at 

 Beitsch, near Pfordten, Lower Lusatia. 



2. A remarkable assemblage of bronze weapons from Neunheiligen, near Langen- 

 salza, Pri'.ssian Saxony ; it includes a double-pointed State Axe, believed to be 

 unique, and some very remarkable daggers. 



3. The original Avooden handle of a bronze Palstave, found in ancient salt works 

 at Hallein in Austria. 



4. A very extensive series of ancient sepulchral Urns, found in Lusatia, Silesia, 

 and Saxony, some of which are singularly similar in form and ornamentation to early 

 British specimens. 



Five bronze implements from Denmark, and two daggers from Cyprus, and a bronze 

 Knife from Siberia ; presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



A bronze Celt, from North Brabant ; presented by M. David Van der Kellen, of Am- 

 sterdam. 



Some antiquities in bronze and iron, from the ancient cemetery at Halstatt, in the 

 Salzkammergut of Austria, excavated at the expense of the donors, John Evans, Esq., 

 F.K.S., F.S.A., and Sir John Lubbock, Bart., r.R.s., F.s.A. 



Among the illustrations of the Roman dominion in England, may be noticed the 

 following : — 



The remains of the Roman enamelled Vase found in the Bartlow Hills, Essex, greatly 

 injured by the fire at Little Easton House ; presented by Alfred T. Copeland, Esq. 



Two Roman stone Coffins, part of an iron weapon, and a bronze plate, found at Bow ; 

 presented by Lord Tredegar, f.s.a. 



An Altar, dedicated to the topical divinity Belatucader, a form of the god Mars; found 

 at Plumpton-on-thc-A\ al!, Cumberland (Archaeologia, vol. ix.) ; part of a Roman inscrip- 

 tion on stone with imperial titles, found in the same district ; and a stone cross found at 

 Lancaster, with an inscription in Anglo-Saxon Runes ; all presented by the Natural 

 History Society of Manchester. 



Various specimens of pottery found at Chesterford in Essex ; presented by the Rev. 

 W. Sparrow Simpson. 



A fine Roman Urn from Lakenheath, Suffolk; presented by John Evans, Esq., r.R.S., 



F.s.A. ^ . 



An ivory Roman Sword Pommel found in London ; presented by J. Wickham Flower, 

 Esq., F.G.S. 



A mass of pewter stamped with the name of Syagrius, being the third specimen of the 

 kind found in the Thames ; j)resented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



A Roman fibula from Westwell Down, Kent; presented by T. Rupert Jones, Esq., f.g.s. 



Among more recent English remains are included: — 



Two Anglo-Saxon Urns found near Oxford. 



A very early figure of bronze of Irish workmanship, and two ancient Irish figures of 

 Christ from crucifixes. 



Seal of the Archdeaconry of Norfolk for causes ecclesiastical; presented by A. W. 

 Franks, Esq., and four other English seals. 



Fragments of porcelain, found on the site of the China Works at Bow ; presented by 

 Mr. G. H. Higgins. 



(2.) Byzantine and Medieval. — Portion of an early Byzantine hanging-lamp, from the 

 Woodhouse collection. 



A Norwegian Calendar in the form of a wooden sabre, with runes ; presented by E. T. 

 Stevens, Esq. 



A triangular marble Salt-cellar ; presented by Dr. Aquilla Smith. 



A considerable collection of silver gilt ornaments, formerly worn by the peasants in 

 Norway, obtained by exchange from the Trustees of the Christy Collection. 



Various objects obtained during the Abyssinian exi^edition, some of them collected by 

 Mr. Holmes, the officer attached to the Abyssinian expedition by the Trustees of the 

 British Museum ; and others presented by the Secretary of State for India. 



Among the objects collected by Mr. Holmes, may be mentioned a silver chalice and a 

 paten bearing ^thiopic inscriptions, showing them to have been given to various churches 

 by King Theodore ; a very fine royal shield with filigree ornaments ; a silver gilt case of 

 ftLbyssinian work, enclosing a fine panel of Limoges enamel of the early part of the 

 sixteenth century ; a necklace of filigree, stated to have belonged to the Queen of 

 Theodore; elaborately engraved processional crosses; a pair of silver slijjpers stated to 

 have been worn by the Aboona, and a remarkable woven silk hanging, with sacred 

 subjects. 



From the Secretary of State for India have been received some marble ', Stelas from 

 the ruins of a church at Adulis, excavated by the British troops, four Abyssinian swords, 

 three spears, several crosses, a censer, nine wooden altar slabs with inscriptions, &c. 



(3.) Ethnographical. 



