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and other remains of tlie Roman occupants of Loudon. On a pedestal 
at the end of the case is a fine bronze figure from Barking Hall, 
Suffolk. 
ANGLO-SAXON ANTIQUITIES. 
These antiquities, which have been chiefly found in ancient 
cemeteries, belong for the most part to the earlier periods of 
the Heptarchy. They show that both burying and burning the 
dead were practised in England by the Saxons. 
Cases 76-80. On the upper shelf are black sepulchral urns, found 
chiefly in Norfolk and Suffolk. On the middle shelf, groups of an- 
tiquities discovered together in Anglo-Saxon cemeteries. On the lower 
shelf of these and the following Cases are antiquities discovered by 
Dr. Bahr in Livonia and Courland, of about the same age as the 
Saxon antiquities, and placed here for comparison. 
Cases 81-86. Various Saxon w'eapons, such as swords, spear-heads, 
and bosses of shields. A bucket of Avood with bronze mountings. 
A bronze bucket, which was discovered at Hexham full of coins of the 
kings of Northumbria. 
In Table Case G are placed personal ornaments of various kinds, 
and a series of swords and spears discovered in the Thames. Among 
them a sword with a Runic alphabet. There is also a remarkable 
casket of whale's bone, with various subjects and Runic inscriptions, 
probably made in Northumbria in the 9th century. 
EARLY CHRISTIAN COLLECTION. 
This is a small Collection occupying one end of Table Case 
G, and Case 17. Among the specimens are numerous lamps 
with the XP, crosses, and subjects from the Old and New 
Testaments. The most remarkable part of it, a number of 
pieces of glass vases with ornaments in gold leaf, discovered 
in the Catacombs of Rome, has been removed to the Glass 
Collection in the Second Egyptian Room. 
In an upright Case P, in the centre of the room, are arranged 
caskets and ornaments of various kinds, found at Rome in 1793, and 
obtained with the Blacas Collection. 
MEDIEVAL COLLECTION. 
This Collection is arranged with reference partly to the 
material of which the objects are formed, partly to the use 
for which they were intended. 
Cases 88-97. Sculpture and Carving, in various materials, but 
