226 Archceologia. 



a circular iron plate, another knife, and a pair of shears. In the 

 case above alluded to, the Saxon had been a warrior ; in this he 

 was evidently a. dealer in some articles which required weighing, as 

 well as cutting and dividing. The beam of the balance was about 

 five inches long, and slightly chased ; the end of the thread or silk 

 which suspended the scales remained still adhering to its end, and 

 some of it was found attached to the scales, which were an inch and 

 seven-eights in diameter. The weights, in number about twenty, 

 were formed of Roman coins, rubbed to the exact quantity, and 

 most of them were marked by dots, which seemed to indicate a 

 multiple of weight. The lock had a bolt made to ascend dia- 

 gonally into the bronze plate, which was rather more than six 

 inches long, and one and a quarter wide, and was very like such a 

 plate on our own door-posts. The double sheath with two knives, 

 an object which has never been found in an Anglo-Saxon grave 

 before, presented the exact type of the Highland scian, or dirk and 

 knife in a double scabbard. The whole of these discoveries are of 

 a very remarkable character, and furnish a satisfactory evidence of 

 the utility of our local archaeological societies. 



Among some Roman inscriptions recently found at . Mesve in 

 France, there is one of peculiar interest, as giving us the name of 

 a goddess previously unknown, Clutonda — no doubt a local divinity, 

 but as proving that the village of Mesve, on the right bank of the 

 Loire, is the site of the Masava of the Romans indicated in- the 

 Peutingerian table. The inscription, which is read as follows, informs 

 us that one Medius Acer, the son of Medius Annus, gave to the 

 statue of Masava " a wall between two arches, with its ornaments :" 

 Augusto sacrum, dece Glutondce et Vicanis Masavensibus : Medius 

 Acer, Medii Anni films, murum inter duos arcus, cum suis omamentis, 

 de suo dono dedit. 



A few days ago, at Sutton Hill, in Corve Dale, Salop, some 

 excavations were made which, though as yet of little extent, are of 

 some interest. It may be remarked that Sutton Hill — which is the 

 property of Charles Powell, Esq., a gentleman who has for some 

 half a century held the office of Chairman of the Board of Magis- 

 trates — is composed of limestone rock, with a rather shallow covering 

 of earth. A part of the summit is uncultivated, and has been long 

 quarried for the purpose of obtaining stone for making lime ; and, 

 in the course of this process of quarrying, many human skeletons, 

 according to the information given by the labourers, have been 

 found at different times, and with them objects of various kinds, 

 some of them of iron. The accounts of these former discoveries 

 are so circumstantial and apparently truthful, that they cannot 

 reasonably be doubted, although all the objects discovered have 

 long been dispersed, and no sufficiently scientific account of the 

 discoveries has been preserved. In the earlier part of the present 

 month, at the suggestion of Mr. T. Wright, an attempt at more 

 careful exploration was made, under his immediate direction, which 

 resulted in the discovery of a skeleton, laid on its back, with the 

 head to the west and the feet to the east, and of some of the bones 

 of a second skeleton, apparently a secondary interment, at a slight 



