ACCOUNTS, kc, OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Three bronze dagger blades found in the parish of Talaton, Devonshire ; presented by 

 Sir John Kennaway, Bart. 



A bronze bifid implement of rare form found in the county of Monaghan, Ireland; and 

 a bronze spear-head from Lockerbie, Dumfries-shire. 



A collection of gold ornaments discovered in Ireland, including two crescent-shaped 

 "gorgets," a neck-ring with puuclied devices, nine penannular rings of various types ; also 

 a silver armlet found in the North of Ireland, and a bronze brooch enamelled, from the 

 , county of Kildare. 



A bronze statuette of fine workmanship found in 1814, at Earith, Huntingdonshire; 

 it is the figure of a warrior with thunderbolts on his greaves, and it has been conjectured 

 that it was intended for Jupiter Martialis, a divinity of whom few representations are 

 known. 



Portion of a bronze trumpet found in Cambridgeshire, and eight Roman seals of lead 

 found at Brough, Westmoreland ; all presented by the Rev. W. Greenwell, f.s.a. 



Roman pewter dishes and other vessels found at Lakenheath in Suffolk, and two Roman 

 gold ornaments from Kent and Essex. 



A Romano-British earthenware cup found at Tilbury Fort, Essex, and an i\.no-lo- 

 Saxon urn from Kirton in Lindsay, Lincolnshire ; both presented, through the Trustees 

 of the Christy Collection, by the Literary and Philosophical Society of Sheffield. 



An Anglo-Saxon pendant of gold, set with garnets, found at Acklam, Yorkshire; 

 presented by J. R. Mortimer, Esq. 



Eight English rings of gold, with various devices, including a decade ring found at 

 Netley Abbey, engraved with the arms of the Tichborne family. A cameo of George III. 

 when young. 



A cap of defence formed of iron plates, enclosed in linen, and known as Brigandine 

 armour. This cap is of the end of the 15th century, and was found on a beam in the 

 old buildings of Davington Priory, Kent. Bequeathed by Thomas Willement, Esq., 

 F.S.A. 



A series of Antiquities of various kinds, found chiefly in London, and illustrating the 

 manners and customs of the Middle Ages ; selected from the collections of the late Josiali 

 Cato, Esq. 



A large contemporary bust of Prince Rupert, made of stone-ware by John Dwight of 

 Fulham, and till recently in the possession of his descendants. 



Among the Foreign illustrations of the Prehistoric series may be noticed twelve bronze 

 weapons found in tombs in Cyprus, and some gold ornaments, possibly Celtic, found at 

 Merida, Spain. 



(2.) Byzantine and Mediaval. — A Byzantine intaglio with curious inscription, found in 

 Cyprus. 



A draughtsman of the 12th century carved in Walrus ivory, two astrolabes, and 

 eighteen dials of various kinds; presented by A. W. Franks, Esq., v.p.S.a. 



Two elegant stone-ware jugs of German manufacture ; one of them mounted in silver- 

 gilt ; presented by John Henderson, Esq., f.s.a. 



A cameo set in a ring with portrait of Christian IV. King of Denmark, and twenty -one 

 matrices of seals. 



A ring dial made in Germany ; presented by Octavius Morgan, Esq., M.p. 



Two enamelled tiles from Spain. 



(3.) Oriental and Ethnographical. — Two urns, bronze armlets and iron implements 

 found by the donor in tumuli in the Nilagiri Hills, Southern India ; presented by Lieut. 

 CoL H. B. Sweet. 



Two inscribed slabs from Dhalac el Kebir, Red Sea ; presented by Hilary Bauerman, 

 Esq., P.G.S. 



A celestial globe of brass inlaid with silver, made a.h. 674 (a.d. 1275), by Mohammed 

 ben Hilhal of Mosul, and obtained in the East by the late Sir John Malcolm. 



III. — Slade Collection. 



During the year 1871, the Executors of the late Felix Slade, Esq., have purchased out 

 of the Fund especially bequeathed to them for the purpose two hundred and forty six 

 specimens of glass at a total cost of 636 /. 1 5. 8 d., and presented them as additions to the 

 Slade Collection, 



Among the more remarkable of these specimens may be noticed the following: — 



A very curious series of glass vases found in an early Roman tomb at Canosa, Southern 

 Italy, consisting of two large white bowls with floral designs in gold of a good style, and 

 believed to be earlier than any specimens of the same kind Jiitherto noticed ; two very 

 large paterse of millefiori, and a bowl of the same kind ; a large bowl with raised devices 

 cut in the lathe, and four other less important sjjccimens. 



Twenty-one glass vessels, &c., found in recent excavations in Cyprus. 



A singular elongated vessel of millefiori glass. 



An Arab lamp of the 14th century, Avitli enamelled designs, brought from Cairo. 



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