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fragment of a bulla and some of the calcined bones 
of a child, is remarkable because of the character of 
the material. Special attention should be given to 
the Anglo-Saxon urns, as the collection is regarded as 
one of the best of the kind in the provinces. Most. 
of these were found in East Anglia, where there were. 
many barrows and tumuli to mark the sites of places 
of interment of the remains of notable Saxons. The 
long two-handled vessel of reddish clay, ending in a 
sharp point to be stuck in the ground, is a fine speci- 
men of the Roman Amphora, generally used for the 
storage of wine, though they were sometimes utilised 
as cinerary urns. ‘The urns found at Ashill, and 
presented by Mr. T. Barton, were discovered in 
making a cutting for the Swaffham and Thetford 
Railway. 
An interesting collection of ancient drinking vessels 
is begun in the end wall case on the north side, 
and continued in the wall cases on the east side. 
These include many examples of early stone ware, 
including the curious two-handled drinking cups called 
Tigs, Bellarmines, gourd-shaped bottles, and the 
Pilgrim’s bottle; besides leathern black-jacks, leather 
bottles, leather mugs, Flemish jugs, and wine bottles, 
or “decanters,” of Lambeth ware. ‘The wall cases, 
in continuation of the Bow and Fulham ware, contain 
some Etruscan, Pompeian, Peruvian, and Egyptian 
pottery. | 
But to return to the table cases. There is here, as 
in the Fitch Room, a fine representative collection of 
implements and weapons of the Palzeolithic, Neolithic, 
and the Bronze Ages. In the case containing 
Neolithic implements, there are shown some obsidian 
cores and flakes from Mexico, to further illustrate the 
universality of the stone weapon at an early stage of. 
civilization. With the bronze celts and implements 
