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No. 13 is a modern stone pestle, from the north-west coast 
of America, used for pounding meat ; it has been presented 
to the Collection by Sir Edward Poore, Bart. 
No. 8 is a sculptured stone collar. It is of an oval form, 
measuring ten inches and a half in its lesser, and fifteen inches 
and three quarters in its greater diameter. 
An elliptical stone collar was exhibited to the Society of 
Antiquaries, January 21, 1869, by Mr. Josiah Cato, who made 
the following observations upon these objects : — 
"The ancient stone ring which I have the honour of exhibit- 
ing to the Society of Antiquaries this evening is an object of 
extreme rarity in English collections, and of quite unknown 
use. It was brought to this country in December, 1865, by my 
friend, Mr. E. B. Webb, of 34, Great George Street, from the 
island of Porto Rico, where it was found. 
" It is formed from a boulder of light-coloured volcanic stone. 
Is seventeen inches and a half in its greater, and fourteen inches 
and a quarter in its lesser diameter. The elliptical perforation 
has a major axis of twelve inches and one-eighth, and a minor 
axis of eight inches and a quarter. The weight is twenty-five 
and a half pounds (avoirdupois). 
"Externally, the ring has two distinct ornaments; one, at 
the end of the ellipse and the thickest part of the ring, is 
chevronnee, with nine incised chevronels. The other, on the 
side of the ellipse, may perhaps be intended to represent the 
ends of a hoop which have been laid together and bound by a 
ligature. This second ornament appears on other specimens 
found in the same island, but the chevronels are replaced by 
other designs. I am not aware that the human figure is in any 
case represented. 
"The example before the society was exhumed from a con- 
siderable depth from the surface, near the top, but on the 
southern side of the sier?-a, or rano-e of hills, which runs from 
east to west nearly throughout the length of the island. It is 
supposed to be the only specimen from this southern slope, but 
Mr. Webb saw several which had been found on the northern, 
anciently the more populous, side of the island. They included 
about five entire rings, and fragments of about as many others. 
They were all in the possession of one person, who would not 
l)art with them, and were all which were then known to have 
bocn found in the island ; but Mr. Franks has kindly pointed 
out t(^ nie that a similar ring is engraved in the * Memoires de 
la Socicte Royale des Antiquaircs du Nord,' in a report by C. C. 
