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BRITISH COLLECTION. 
Cases 5—12. Various stone weapons and implements, consisting of 
knives, arrow-heads, hammers, &c. ; among these may be noticed a 
stone hammer, found at Stanwick, and presented hy the Duke of 
Northumberland. 
On the low’er shelf are models of the stone cromlechs or sepulchres 
of the ancient Celtic tribes, viz., the Chun Quoit, Cornwall; the Tre- 
vethy Stone, near St. Cleer; the Lanyan Quoit, near Penzance; one 
at Duffrin, S. Wales; the Double Cromlech, at Plas Newydd, Angle- 
sea; and the Cromlech at Mofra. All made and presented hy R, 
Tongue. Esq. 
Over the Cases in this part of the Room may be seen two pictures 
by Mr. Tongue, viz., the Cromlech, at Plas Newydd, Anglesea; 
and Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain. 
Cases 17—*20. Bronze implements, known as celts or palstaves; 
among these may be noticed three bronze moulds for casting them; 
one of them found on the Quantock Hills, Somersetshire. 
Cases 21, 22. Bronze swords and daggers. 
Cases 23, 24. Bronze spear-heads. 
Case 26. A bronze buckler and dagger-sheath ; found in the river 
Isis, near Dorchester, Oxfordshire. 
Case 27. A collection of bronze subjects, consisting of a sword- 
blade, spear-head, celt, and pin, found in the river Wandle, Surrey. 
Presented hy i?. Mylne, Esq. 
Cases 28—33. The rude half-baked pottery w’hich is found in the 
barrows of the early Britons; among these are two urns found at Porth 
Dafarch, Anglesea. Presented hy the Hon. W. Owen Stanley, 1851. 
And an urn found on the banks of the Alaw, Anglesey supposed to 
have contained the bones Of Bronw^en, the aunt of Caractacus, who 
died about a.d. 50. Presented hy Rich. Llwyd, Esq., 1834. 
The following Cases,^ 38—75, contain antiquities belonging to the 
period of the Roman occupation of Britain. 
Cases 39—42. In the middle shelf various collections of fragments 
found in Roman stations, &c., among them a collection of fragments 
from a villa at Wakefield Forest. Presented hy the Duchess of 
Grafton, 1851. Another collection, found in caves'at Settle, in 
Yorkshire, and some fragments, found in the camp at Catterick, 
Yorkshire. Presented hy the Earl of Tyrconnel. On the lower 
shelf are various specimens of flue-tiles, bricks, drain-tiles, &c., from 
Roman buildings. 
Cases 47—50. Coarse w^are, consisting of amphorae, mortaria, 
&;c., the latter have the names of the makers stamped on the rims. 
Case 51. Light red ware, coated with white. 
Cases 52, 53. Light red ware, of a finer description, coated with red. 
Cases 54, 55. Grey w^are. 
Cases 56, 57. Black w^are. 
Case 58. Fine red ware, wdth embossed ornaments, made at 
Arezzo, in Italy. Several of the fragments have been found in 
London. 
Cases 59—63. Red glazed ware, made in Gaul and Germany, 
and imported into England. A collection of potters’ marks on this 
w'are, chiefly from London. In Case 63 is part of a mould for 
making the wares with raised figures, found at Rheinzabern; as well 
