22 ACCOUNTS, &:C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



A plain urn, found at Toddington, Bedfordshire ; presented by Major W. Cooper 

 Cooper, r.S.A. 



A stone wrist-guard, found near Calne, Wiltshire, and a two-looped celt from 

 Somersetshire ; presented by William Edkins, Esq. 



A quartzite hammer, found near Sandridge, Hertfordshire ; presented by Henry 

 Griffith, Esq. 



A hoard of bronze implements, cakes of copper, etc., found in the parish of Meldreth, 

 Cambridgeshire; bronze celt from the Thames; another from Ireland ; and a gold tore, 

 found in Lincolnshire ; presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



The following late Celtic antiquities, viz. : — Bronze sword sheath, found in the Tweed ; 

 bronze sword sheath, bowl, terminations of spears, iron sword, spearhead and adze, all 

 found in Lisnacrogher bog, County Antrim ; a bronze brooch, from Ivells ; two Irish pins, 

 with ornamented heads ; comb, from Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire ; armlets and beads, from 

 Arras, 1 orkshire ; and end of swordsheath and three fibulae from Wood Eaton, Oxford- 

 shire ; all presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



Abronze buckle,fromA8hdown,Berkshire; presented by T. W. U. Robinson, Esq., f.s.a. 



The foreign illustrations of this section include the following : — 



A collection of bronze implements from various countries, viz. : — 19 from France, 14 

 from Cyprus, 21 from Italy and Sicily, two from Greece, one from Persia, and 41 from 

 China ; and also a sword and sheath of iron, S'pearheads, brooch, etc., from the Lake 

 station of La Tene, Lake of Neuchatel, all presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



(2.) Anglo-Roman. — Centre of a Roman mosaic pavement, found, in 1803, in Leadenhall- 

 street, near the old East India House, representing Bacchus riding on a panther; 

 presented by the Secretary of State for India. 



Portions of two bronze tablets, recording military privileges, granted to soldiers who had 

 served in Britain under Papirius (not otherwise known as a prefect of Britain), by 

 Antoninus Pius in the year 146, and recording the names of a number of al^ and cohorts 

 serving in this country ; found at Chesters (Cilurnum), on the estate of the donor, 

 John Clayton, Esq., f.s.a. 



Bronze medallion, with head of a season in relief, found in the Thames near Wandsworth ; 

 Roman remains from the parish of Southery, Norfolk, and bronze horse trappings from 

 Reeth, Yorkshire ; presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



(3.) Anglo-Saxon, British Mediaval, &;c. — Tavo Anglo-Saxon cinerary ui'us from Klrton- 

 in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire; presented by Mrs. Edward Peacock. An Anglo-Saxon sword 

 from the parish of Barrington, Cambridgeshire; presented by J. C. Robinson, Esq., r.S.A, 



A collection of antiquities found in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Longbridge, near 

 Warwick, including weapons, brooches, buckets, etc. ; presented by John Staunton, Esq. 



A remarkable hoard of silver objects, found, in 1774, at Trewhiddle, near St. Austell, 

 Cornwall, with numerous coins, and described in Archteologia, vol. ix. p. 187. They 

 consist of a cup or chalice, a silver chain with knots, supposed to be a penitentiary dis- 

 ciplinarium, and various ornaments ; from the coins the deposit is presumed to have 

 been made during the reign of Alfred the Great, about a.d. 878; presented by 

 John Jope Rogers, Esq., since deceased. 



Part of an Anglo-Saxon cross with runes, from Monk Wearmouth, three " pillow 

 stones " from Hartlepool, and another from Billingham, all in the county of Durham ; 

 presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



Fragments of ornamented tiles, of a rare kind, from St. Alban's ; presented by J. T. 

 Micklethwaite, Esq., F.S.A. 



A cabalistic leaden plate of the 15th century, found in Lincolnshire; presented by 

 Edward Peacock, Esq., f s.a. A bronze steelyard weight, with the arms of Richard, Earl of 

 Cornwall, found at Chichester ; presented by Henry Willett., Esq. A weight for half a 

 stone, with the arms of Charles I. ; presented by the Rev. W. H. t^tokes. 



The seal of Richard, Duke of Gloucester, afterwards King Richard III., as Admiral of 

 England in the counties of Dorset and Somerset, and the seal of the Merchants of 

 St. Thomas, afterwards known as the Merchants' Adventurers; the latter presented by 

 A. ^\. Franks, Esq. 



A bronze CAver of the 14th century, in the form of a young man on horseback. 



A marble bust of John, Duke of Marlborough, by M. Rysbrack, given by Sarah, 

 Duchess of Marlborough, to Chief Baron Pengelly, and by him to his secretary Serjeant 

 Webb, from whom it descended to the donor, the Rev. Thomas William Webb. 



(4.) Early Christian, Byzantine, Foreign Mediaval, ^c. — Lamps and various other 

 Christian antiquities from Egypt. 



Seven Byzantine weights ; nine matrices of seals, chiefly Italian, and a portion of a 

 bronze reliquary of the 13th century. 



Three Limoges champleve enamels, one of them a candlestick with the arms of Dreux, 

 Duke of Brittany, and Nesle ; four painted enamels, viz.: — The Ascension, signed N.B. 

 1543; St. Margaret, by Jean Limousin; Neptune by Frangois Limousin, 1633; and 

 Christ among the doctors, by Jean Laudin ; a tablet engraved with a long inscription, 

 recording the completion of some work in Constance Cathedral, dated 1486 ; and a 

 German embossed dish of brass, dated 1487 ; presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



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