ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



A permanent catalogue on slips of the ethnographical collections has been commenced, 

 and five hundred and fifty eight specimens described, with a careful sketch of each object. 



The collections from the Drift, belonging to the Christy Collection, which had pre- 

 viously been removed to the Museum, have been systematically arranged in drawers, as 

 ■well as a portion of the American stone implements. 



The Bragge Collection of pipes, pui-chased by the Christy Trustees, has, from Avant of 

 space in Victoria-street, been deposited in the Department, and arranged in drawers, 

 together with all similar objects belonging to the Museum, or to the Christy Collection. 



II. — Acquis Uions. 



(1.) Early British and Prehistoric Antiquities: — 



A fine cinerary urn from Cransley, Northamptonshire ; presented by John Wallis, 

 Esq. A cinerary urn, pai't of an " incense cup," and stone impalements, from baiTows near 

 Hawnby, N. Riding, Yorkshire. Fragments of British pottery, an axe-hammer of 

 stag's horn, and various flint implements, excavated in barrows on Brading Down, Isle 

 of Wight, and presented by F. G. Hilton Price, Esq., F.S.A., and J. E. Price, Esq., f.s.a. 



A very fine dagger of bronze, with the handle i:)erfect, and a flint arrowhead, both 

 found in the Thames ; presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. A bronze celt from Foxley 

 Fen, Huntingdonshire, and another found at Eye, near Peterborough. 



An iron celt, an object of great rarity, found at Walthamstow ; presented by 

 A. W. Franks, Esq. A large bronze boss and five smaller, perhaps the ornaments of a 

 Late Celtic shield, found near Peterborough. Two terra-cotta weights and a bronze pin, 

 probably Late Celtic, from Lakenheath, Suff'olk ; presented by the Eev. William 

 Greenwell, f.r.s. 



The foreign illustrations of this section include an iron sword of very peculiar form, 

 and four spearheads, part of a large find of such weapons which took place in Spain ; 

 presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



(2.) Anglo Roman: — 



The most important acquisition under this head is a statuette in bronze representing 

 an archer, 11 inches in height. This specimen of Eoman art, of the second or third 

 century after Christ, was found in 1842 in Queen-street, Cheapside, about 12 or 13 

 feet below the surface, and is engraved in " Archajologia," vol. xxx., pi. xxii.. and in 

 Roach Smith's " Roman London," pi. xx. It was formerly in the collection of Lord 

 Londesborough, and has been presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



A bronze figure of Cupid, who has probably been represented riding a dolphin or griflfin, 

 found in Leadenhall-sti-eet, 1882 ; and presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



Four pieces of painted stucco and two mill-stones, the latter yjrobably brought bv the 

 Romans from iSieder Mendig on the Rhine, found in Leadenhali-street, and an iron dish 

 plated with bronze from London Wall; presented by F. G. Hilton Price, Esq., f.s.a. 

 A curved tile of unusual dimensions, with impressed diaper on the outside, found in 

 Trinity-square, London, and fragments of a " Samian " bowl, apparently a castaway, 

 and therefore probably made in London ; presented by the Directors of the Metropolitan 

 Railway. 



Remains of a very fine bronze patera, with a raised head of Medusa in the centre of the 

 bowl, and a head of Pan forming the termination of the handle, details inlaid with silver : 

 a bronze prajfericulum Avith a figure of a Cupid holding a torch at the lower end of the 

 handle ; another bronze vase, plain; a bronze lamp; and a bottle of amber-coloured glass; 

 all found recently with an interment at Faversham, Kent. 



Stamp of the Roman oculists, C. Valerius Valentinus, and Caius Valerius Amandus, 

 found with a coin of Antoninus Pius, at Sandy, Bedfordshire ; engraved in the " Proceed- 

 ings of the Society of Antiquaries," 2ud series, vi. 39 ; presented by John C. Lucas, 

 Esq., F.S.A. 



An intaglio on sard AvIth a head of Jupiter Ammon, found at York ; presented by Mr. 

 Robert Ready, 



A series of antiquities in iron, knives, hinges, and other fittings of a large chest, &c., 

 from Lakenheath, Sufiblk ; presented by Walter K. Foster, Esq., f.s.a. A whetstone, 

 and other remains, found near Cambridge ; j^resented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



A drinking cup of fine pottery and unusual form, from Twywell, Northamptonshire ; 

 presented by the Rev. Horace Waller. 



A number of antiquities selected from the collection of the late Samuel Sharp, Esq., 

 F.S.A., chiefly found in the neighbourhood of the great Roman station at Castor, 

 Northamptonshire. These include antiquities from Water NeAvton and Chesterton Camp, 

 Huntingdonshire, and a number of clay moulds for casting counterfeit coins, found at 

 Duston, near Northampton ; these latterwere published by Mr. Sharp in the " Numismatic 

 Chronicle," N.s. xi., p. 28. 



Fragments of a tile, Avith the stamp of the 5th cohort of Gauls, and a leaden seal with 

 three imperial heads, both from South Shields ; presented by Robert Blair, Esq. Bronze 

 brooch, once enamelled, from the Warren, Folkestone ; presented by the Rev. Francis 

 Merewether. Two mill-stones, made of Hertfordshire puddingstone, found near 

 Harpenden, Hertfordshire ; presented by Mrs. Lydekker. 



Four specimens of AvindoAv glass from the Roman villa at Brading, Isle of Wio-ht ; 

 presented by the Committee for exploring the villa. 



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