ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BUITISH MUSEUM. IQ 



Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography. 



I. — A rrangement. 



The registration of acquisitions has been continued ; 255 antiquities have been mounted 

 on tablets, and 61 matrices of seals have been mounted, with impressions at their sides. 



II. — Acquisitions. 



The acquisitions, exclusive of the additions to the Christy Collection, may be classed 

 as follows : — 



(1.) British mid Prehistoric Antiquities. — An important collection of Prehistoric Anti- 

 quities has been acquired, formed by the Kev. W. C. Lukis, f.s.a., which may be 

 divided into the following sections : — 



(a.) Antiquities discovered in Britain. Urn, etc., found in a barrow in Yoi-kshire ; 

 another from a barrow in Derbyshire ; and a number of stone imjjlements, and other pre- 

 historic remains from Yorkshire, Scotland, Anglesey, the Isle of Man, and Guernsey ; in 

 all, about 200 specimens. 



{b.) Antiquities from the Dolmens of Brittany. Numerous specimens of pottery, stone 

 implements, amulets, and beads, excavated by Mr. Lukis in Dolmens in the neighbour- 

 hood of Carnac, and other parts of Brittany, including several examples of a beautiful 

 turquoise-coloured stone, of which the origin is not known, and which has been identified 

 by the French chemist, M. Damour, with the Calldis of Pliny. 



c. Antiquities from France. A large series of stone implements collected in Brittany ; 

 bronze celts from various parts of France. 



Among other acquisitions the following may be noticed : — 



Two stone celts found in Anglesey; presented by the Hon. W. Owen Stanley. A flint 

 celt from Scoulton, Norfolk, presented by the Rev. J. M. Johnson. 



An elaborately ornamented " incense cup," found in a barrow at Bulford, Wilts : pre- 

 sented by the Hon. Mrs. Way ; and a British urn, found at IMoel Hebog, Caernarvonshire. 



Three bronze palstaves, found on the Balcarry Farm, Co. Wigton; presented by 

 Vice- Admiral the Kiglit Hon. Sir John Dalrymple Hay, Bart., M.P. ; a socketed celt 

 from Lincolnshire, presented by the Hon. Mrs. Way ; a series of 42 bronze implements, 

 found in various parts of the British Isles, selected from the Collection of the Rev. W. 

 Sparrow Simpson, D.D. 



Sixty-four bronze weapons and implements, chiefly found in the neighbourh(jod of 

 Macon, France ; antiquities of the Bronze Period, found in the Lake dwellings of 

 Switzerland; and iron objects found on the site of the Celtic battle-field at Tiefenau, 

 Canton Berne : all presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



Ironwork of British chariot wheels, found in a barrow near Beverley, Yorkshire; 

 presented by the Rev. W. Greenwell, f.s.a. 



Pottery from Lake dwellings in the Lake of Bienne, Switzerland ; presented by Dr. 

 Gross, of Neuveville, Canton Neuchatel, 



Mass from a vitrified fort at Dun Macuisneachan, Argyleshire, presented by Dr. R. 

 Angus Smith, F.R.s. ; bone bead from Skail, Orkney, presented by R. H. Scott, 

 Esq., F.R.s. 



(2.) Anglo-Roman. — A bronze statuette of Ceres, found at Grewelthorpe, York- 

 shire. 



Two bronze objects found at Lincoln, presented by the Hon. Mrs. Way ; Roman 

 pottery from St. Albans. 



(3.) Anglo-Saxon, British Mediaval, &;c. — A large collection of Antiquities discovered 

 in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Long Wittenham, Berks, among which is a remarkable 

 bucket or stoop, with embossed designs, representing the Christian monogram and three 

 sacred subjects. These antiquities were excavated In March, 1859, by the late J. Y. 

 Akerman, Esq., at the expense of the Society of Antiquaries, and a full account of them 

 has been published in the " Archajologla," vol. xxxvlil. Subsequent excavations took place 

 In 1860 (published In the same work, vol. xxxix), the results of which became the pro- 

 perty of the British Museum in 1862. In order that the collections might be united, the 

 Society of Antiquaries has ceded the earlier series at the cost of the excavations. 



Two Anglo-Saxon urns ; one from Kempston, Bedfordshire, the other found near 

 Cambridge ; presented by John Evans, Esq., F.u.s. 



Antiquities discovered in an .Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire. 



An Anglo-Saxon, or Irish, cross-shaped brooch, presented by Philip T. Gardner, Esq. ; 

 a brass ring with a Runic inscription, believed to have been found in Cumberland ; pre- 

 sented by Robert Ferguson, Esq. M.P. 



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