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The lining of the walls of the outer study with bookcases has been commenced, by the 

 removal of those in a former official residence. 



One thousand and thirteen small Roman and other antiquities have been mounted, in an 

 uniform manner, on tablets. 



fe Two hundred and fifty tablets, pedestals, etc, have had headings and localities of the 

 specimens painted upon them. 



One hundred and sixty-four temporary card-labels have been written. 



Five seals have been mounted, with impressions at their sides. 



Four British urns and thirty-two specimens of Roman ware have been repaired. 



Fifteen glass bottles have been mounted on stands. 



Seven panels of glass have been framed for exhibition. 



Seven pedestals for antiquities have been made. 



Fifty-three iron objects have been boiled in wax to prevent decay. 



The registration has been continued, and 1,296 objects registered. 



II. — Acquisitions. 



(1.) British and Pre-hiUoric Antiquities. — A series of antiquities discovered in 1875-76 

 at Forth D.tfarch, Holyhead Island, and a glass bead from Holyhead Mountain, described 

 in " Archffiological Journal," vol. xxxiii. ; presented by the Hon. W. Owen Stanley. 



A fragment of the gold corslet found at Mold, Flintshire, which is now in the British 

 Museum ; presented by Miss Lewis. A piece of bronze and a fragment of human bone, 

 found with the corslet at Mold; presented by Mrs. Hughes. 



A fine hronze celt, found near Menai Bridge in 1874 ; pi-esented by Admiral Lord 

 Clarence Paget, r.n. 



A necklace of beads, found in a cairn at Crosby Ravensworth, Westmoreland, and a 

 bronze celt from Cambridgeshire ; presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



A series of antiquities of bronze and other materials, from a crannoge on Lough Cloon- 

 finlough, Strokestown, county Roscommon, Ireland. 



The foreign illustrations of this section include the following : — 



Two stone moulds for casting bronze implements, from the Lake of Bienne, Switzer- 

 land ; presented by the Rev. William Greenwell, F.R.S. 



Antiquities from lake dwellings at Auvernier and Robenhausen, Switzerland ; presented 

 by Admiral Lord Clarence Paget, R.N, 



Celt of fibrolite from Rio Verde, Spain ; presented by Richard Inwards, Esq. 



Twelve bronze implements from the East, and a bronze spearhead from Wiener 

 Neustadt, Austria ; presented by A, W. Franks, lisq. 



Ten plaster casts of pottery vessels found in kitchen middens in Japan, and supposed 

 to be pre-historic ; presented by the University of Tokio, Japan. 



(2.) Anglo-Roman. — Small bronze figure, from Ashdown, Berkshire; presented by 

 T. W. U. Robinson, Esq., f.s.a. 



Three stone roofing tiles, from Fifehead Neville, Dorset ; presented by W. W. 

 Connop, Esq. 



Three similar specimens, from the Villa near Brading, Isle of Wight ; presented by 

 the Committee for exploring the Roman Villa at Bi-ading, through F. G. Hilton Price, 

 Esq., F.S.A. 



Three other roofing tiles, from Mountsorrel, Leicestershire; presented by R. F. 

 Martin, Esq. 



A vase of Samian ware of rare form, and in unusually perfect preservation, found at 

 Felixstow, Suffolk ; presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



A silver fibula, with ornament in niello, found at Bath. 



(3.) Anglo-Saxon, British Mediceval, ^c. — A very remarkable Anglo-Saxon knife, inlaid 

 with silver and niello, and inscribed with the name of the owner, " Gebereht," or 

 " Sigebereht," and of the maker, " Biorhtelm." It was found, about 1870, at Sitting- 

 bourne, Kent, and is described and figured in Archaeologia, vol. xliv. p. 331 ; presented 

 by Edward Lloyd, Esq. 



A number of Anglo-Saxon antiquities, found, at Faversham, Kent, including two 

 glass bottles, a gold bracteate, formed in imitation of a coin of Justin I., amethyst 

 beads, etc. 



An ivory seal of very unusual character, found at Wallingford, Berkshire, with a bone 

 comb and a sharpening stone. The seal is circular, engraved on both faces, the obverse 

 with a bust armed with a sword ; legend SiGiLLUM Godwini Ministri ; reverse, a female 

 figure with a book, legend SiGiLLUM Godgythe Monache Deodate. It has on 

 one side a projection, having, in relief, a representation apparently of the Holy Trinity. 

 This is an important acquisition, as the only two other matrices of Anglo-Saxon seals 

 known to exist are already in the British Museum. Presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



A carving in ivory of early Norman work, representing two lions combattant, found at 

 Bildeston, Suffolk. 



An iron sword, with inscription inlaid in silver, found on Canwick Common, Lincoln, 

 1866 ; two bronze steelyard weights, with shields of arms in relief; and a bronze mortar, 

 dated 1651 ; presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



Seal, formed of an intaglio in jasper, of mediaeval workmanship, representing a female 

 O.go. D 2 head 



