Donations to the Museum. 847 



J ©nations to i\t Unburn, issi. 



A series of small objects, mostly of Roman date, including a curious razor-like 

 knife, with ornamented bronze handle, found near Manton, Wilts. Presented 

 by W. Tayloe, Esq. 



Two skulls from the long barrow on Oldbury Hill ; described by Dr. Thurnam 

 in Memoirs of Anthropological Soc, and by Dr. Garson in the present number 

 of the Magazine, p. 295. Presented by Mr. Cunnington, F.G S. 



Also, (obtained by purchase from the workman who found them in digging flints 

 near Tan Hill, on the Beckharnpton side of Wansdyke : — ) 



A molar tooth of rhinoceros — the first instance recorded of the finding of remains 

 of this animal in the thin superficial layer of splintered flints on the chalk hills. 



A specimen of socketed looped bronze spear-head — of the form figured by Dean 

 Merewether in the Salisbury volume of Archaeological Institute (which, also, 

 was found at Beckharnpton). It is the same, too, as the specimen found near 

 Stonehenge and figured in vol. xxi., p. 262, fig. 5, Wiltshire Magazine. 



An iron socketed spear-head, 6in. in length. 



A square iron awl, pointed at both ends, 3in. in length. 



Horse-shoe of old form. 



Iron spiked knife. 



Some fine specimens of ' ' Cycadeoidea Microphylla," from Portland Beds, Swindon, 



Wilts. Presented by the Rev. H. G. Tomkins, in memory of his late father, 



Charles Tomkins, Esq., M.D., of Devizes. 

 An interesting collection of skulls and other bones, obtained from Bowles* 



Barrow. Presented by Lord Heytesbury. 

 A copy of the Stourton Registers from 1570 to 1800. Presented by the Editor^ 



(the Rev. J. H. Ellis, Rector of Stourton). 



END OF VOL. XXIII. 



H. F. BULL, Printer and Publisher, 4, Saint John Street, Devizes. 



