l8 ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



28. Circular intaglio in green porphyry, ivith design of human figure up to the waist, 

 from which spring the forepart of a goat hanging over on the right, and the forepart of an 

 ox hanging over on the left. 



29. Circular intaglio in green jasper, Avith figures of a hound and a dead deer. These 

 four Archaic gems (Nos. 26-29) are from Crete. 



30. Three Archaic vases of fictile ware, with geometric patterns. From Athens. 



31. Two Archaic vases of fictile ware, with figures of animals and geometric patterns. 

 From Athens. 



32. Eight terra-cotta figures. From Tanagra. 



33. Terra-cotta female figure. From Corinth. 



C. T. Newton. 



Department op British and Medieval Antiquities and Ethnography. 



I. — Arrangement. 



A NEW room on the first floor has been built, in which It Is intended to place the collec- 

 tion of Pre-historic Antiquities as soon as the wall cases have been provided. 



A table case belonging to the Christy Collection has been temporarily placed in the 

 British Room. 



The collection of gold ornaments belonging to the department has been re-arranged 

 in the Gold Ornament Room, with fresh fittings. 



An elaborate catalogue of the collection of medlteval and more modern rings has been 

 made for Identification, with drawings of each specimen; the number of rings is 383. 



225 seals have been mounted on tablets, with Impressions at their sides. Various other 

 antiquities have also been mounted or repaired. 



The registration has been continued, including all the antiquities acquired during the 

 year, 325 in number. 



II. — Acquisitions. 



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

 as follows : — 



(1.) British and Pre-historic Antiquities. — Seven flint implements found in a tumulus 

 at Seaford, Sussex, presented by the Exploration Committee of the Anthropological 

 Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 



A stone celt from Tanfield, Yorkshire, and a flint Implement from Savernake Forest, 

 Wiltshire; presented by the Rev. W. C. Lukis, r.s.A. A flint celt from Ilfracombe, 

 Devon; presented by the Rev. John Mill Chanter. 



Six bronze weapons and Implements found in the British Islands; presented by A. W. 

 Franks, Esq. A fragment of the gold corslet found at Mold, in Flintshire ; presented 

 by John Evans, Esq., d.c.l., f.r.s. 



Some remarkable objects found In a Late Celtic grave of a woman at Arras, in York- 

 shire, consisting of the tires and naves of two chariot wheels, two bronze horse-bits, a 

 buckle ornament, and an Iron mirror with bronze mountings ; presented by A. W. Franks, 

 Esq., F.R.S. An account of this discovery Is given in Greenwell's British Barrows, 

 p. 454. 



The foreign illustrations of this section include the following :— 



Four weapons of copper and bronze, from Cyprus, and two of copper, from Bethlehem, 

 all analysed by Dr. Flight, and presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. Three bronze arrow- 

 heads from Ecbatana; presented by Caspar P. Clarke, Esq. 



Twenty-two earthen vessels found in tombs near the River Neisse, in Silesia. 



Portion of one of the stones with pit markings, from the megalithic ruins at Haglar 

 Kim, Malta; presented by the Rev. GrevIUe J. Chester. 



An iron spearhead from the cemetery at Halstatt, In the Salzkammergut of Austria; 

 presented by Professor T. Rupert Jones, f.r.s. 



(2.) Anglo-Roman. — Eight Roman objects found in London; presented by A. "W. 

 Franks, Esq. 



(3.) Anglo-Saxon, British MedicEval, S;c. — Seventeen mediaeval objects, found chiefly 

 in London ; presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



Pair of gloves, found in an old house at Wellington, Somerset, and three objects from 

 Barlynch Priory, Somerset; bequeathed by the Rev. Thomas Hugo, F.s.A. 



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