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recording some event during tlie Eoman occupation of York in 
tlie reign of Hadrian ; the other, found in Castlegate, is a 
carved head which originally stood at one of the angles of a 
square tomb. Below the head, on two faces, are the letters 
D.M.—C E, which, up to the present time, have received no 
satisfactory explanation. 
The excavations for the Exhibition disclosed a small hoard 
of the copper coins which were in circulation in the kingdom 
of Northumbria up to the middle of the ninth century. The 
whole number of the coins, comprising about 400 in all, passed 
into the hands of the Society ; but although in very fair condi¬ 
tion they do not present any new tjqoes. It is generally 
supposed that these hoards of coins, of which great numbers 
have been discovered in York, wm-e concealed or lost at the 
time of the capture of the city by the Danes in A. D. 867. 
In the month of Iidy a remarkable deposit was found in the 
centre of the public road in Greorge Street, Walmgate. It 
consisted of a number of vessels with small handles or ears on 
the neck, generally called costrels. They were laid in rows, 
three deep, packed close together as in a store, and some 
remains of a wooden rack, or bin, in which they had stood, 
were discovered with them. Mixed with the costrels were two 
or three of those cuiious vessels termed greybeards. Some 
flftv vessels were formd in all, which seem to have been made 
between 1580 and 1620. The best of these are now in the 
possession of this Society, and help to mark an epoch in the 
history of English pottery in York. 
The Society purchased at the recent sale at Sheriff Hutton 
Parka contemporaneous bust in lead of Thomas Lord Fairfax, 
the celebrated Parliamentary general. There are few persons 
to whom the city and county of York are so much beholden, 
and the Society is happy to possess so interesting a memorial of 
so distinguished a man. 
The time has again come round when a fresh edition of the 
Catalogue will be required, and this is the onl}^ period therefore 
at which it is possible to make any material changes in the 
arrangement of the Antiquarian collections. Several new cases 
are needed, and it will be necessary to move some objects out of 
