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



As, however, such an arrangement could not be completed until the entrance to the new 

 galleries had been finished, it has been thought desirable to postpone the arrangement of 

 this portion of the collection until the other sections are in order. 



Two cases containing Early Christian Antiq^uities have been placed in the Northern 

 Corridor. 



Horizontal blinds have been put to the skylights in part of the Prehistoric Saloon, the 

 Medieval Room, and the Oriental Saloon, 



The very large collection of ethnographical specimens in the Cliristy Collection, as 

 before mentioned, has been packed, removed to the Museum, and unpacked, Avithout 

 damage, and the occupation of the rooms in Victoria-street has been given up. 



Four hundred and sixty-three small antiquities have been mounted on tablets, in an 

 uniform manner. Twenty-seven large tablets of antiquities have been prepared. 

 Thirty-four objects have been mounted on pedestals. A wooden stand has been made 

 for the Roman pigs of lead. Two Roman leaden coffins have been repaired and fitted 

 with internal wooden supports. Four prints illustrating Roman antiquities have been 

 framed and exhibited. Labels have been printed for eleven series of Anglo-Saxon 

 antiquities ; one hundred and two labels have been painted; and four hundred and 

 sixty-two temporary card labels written. Thirty-five specimens of pottery have been 

 repaired, as well as three ancient Mexican stone figures ; and five objects in metal have 

 been cleaned and varnished. A large number of antiquities of iron have been boiled in 

 wax to arrest decay. 



One hundred and sixty-four locks of the new suite have been fitted on wall-cases, and 

 one hundred and sixty-eight of the same on table-cases. 



The permanent catalogue on slips of the ethnographical collections has been continued, 

 and five hundred and fifty -three specimens described, with a careful sketch of each 

 object. 



The Registration has also been continued, and four hundred and ninety-seven objects 

 registered. 



II. — A cquisitions. 



(1.) Early British and Prehistoric Antiquities : — 



Antiquities discovered in excavations made by the donor in the ancient British flint 

 workings known as " Grimes Graves," in the parish of Weeting, Norfolk, consisting of 

 picks made of deer's horn, a stone axe, chalk cups believed to have been used as lamps, 

 and flint implements and flakes. Described in the " Journal of the Ethnological Society," 

 1869-70, p. 419. Also a number of flint implements found on the site of an ancient Irish 

 manufactory at Whitepark Bay, county Antrim. All presented by the Rev. William 

 Greenwell, d.c.l., f.e.s. 



A number of flint implements, palaeolithic and neolithic, discovered in Kent, from the 

 collection of George Payne, Esq., f.s.a. 



British urns and flint implements found in barrows at North Newbold, Lincolnshire, 

 and Huggate Wold, Yorkshire ; two " food vessels " from Ardrossan, Ayrshire, and 

 a " drinking cup " found in Sufiblk, presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



Five urns found at Mill Hill Park, Acton, Middlesex, presented by Albert Harts- 

 horne, Esq., f.s.a. 



A pierced stone axe of a rare type, from Ireland, presented by the Rev. George Wilson. 



Bronze halbert head found near Enniskillen, presented by the Earl of Enniskillen. 



Fragment of the well-known gold corslet found near Mold in Flintshire, presented by 

 F. Potts, Esq. 



A collection of bronze objects, chiefly part of a remarkable hoard discovered at Dowris, 

 King's County, Ireland, and another curious hoard from Lusmagh, in the same county; 

 formerly belonging to Mr. Cooke, of Parsonstown, whose collection was acquired 

 by the Museum in 1854. 



The foreign illustrations of this section include the following : — 



A series of flint implements excavated by the donor in Egypt, presented by W. M. 

 Flinders Petrie, Esq. 



Seventy-six stone implements from the North West Provinces of India, presented by 

 J. H. Rivett-Carnac, Esq., c.i.E., F.S.A. Four flint cores from Scinde, presented 

 by Sir John Lubbock, Bart., m.p. ; and cores and flakes from Jubbulpore, Bengal 

 Presidency, presented by Mrs. Ryder. 



Sixteen bronze implements from Italy, a bronze spear from Cyprus, and an " incense 

 cup " from Denmark, presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



(2.) Anglo-Roman: — 



Two milestones found at Yro, Caernarvonshire, one of them with the name of, the 

 Emperor Hadrian, of the year A.D. 121 — 2, with a statement that it had been erected 

 eight miles from the Roman station Kanovium, placed by some at Caerryn, and by 

 others at Conway. The other with the name of the Emperor Severus and his two sons, 

 anciently mutilated to erase the name of Geta ; date about 198 — 208 a.d. Presented 

 by Major Henry Piatt. 



A Roman sword or parazonium of nearly the same proportions as the so-called sword 

 of Tiberius (which was found at Mayence, and presented to the British Museum in 1866). 



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