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was kind enough to present to this Museum in 1864, hut he 
has never seen the addition which has just been made to them. 
Mr. Baker, however, compares what we had with some recent 
discoveries in other parts of the country, and makes some 
valuable suggestions as to the use to which these vessels were 
put. In 1856 a nest of five bronze vessels, resembling shallow 
pans, was found at Stittenham. They were laid one inside the 
other, and each has a somewhat long handle. They differ from 
ours in fabric, and probably in use. They are now preserved 
in the Museum at Castle Howard. Similar vessels have been 
not unfrequently found. We have one in our own Museum. 
Two sets of bronze vessels, however, have been recently 
discovered, with which ours may be advantageously compared. 
One was found in the far north, in Sutherlandshire, consisting 
of two perforated colanders, a shallow pan or dish, a basin, and 
three bowls of different sizes—seven objects in all, which were 
laid one inside the other, like the vessels at Stittenham. The 
other find was made in 1874 in a Boman cemetery at Irchester, 
Northants. It consisted of eight vessels, in very excellent 
preservation, one inside the other, and all deposited in a kind 
of bucket or pail. Mr. Baker gives a most minute description 
of these curiosities, and, better still, his account is accompanied 
by drawings which enable us to see at once how closely these 
vessels resemble those which we possess ourselves. There are 
four bowls, a basin with crimped edges, and three perforated 
colanders. Like ours, several of them have been patched and 
mended, but they are in so good a condition on the whole that 
Mr. Baker speaks of the burnish remaining upon them, to such 
an extent as almost to resemble gilding. 
Now, although there is some similiarity between Celtic and 
Boman metal-work, there can be no hesitation in saying that 
all the vessels that I have been describing are of Boman 
workmanship. The urn upon the table is sufficient to decide 
that, if every other proof were wanting. But to what special 
purposes were they applied? The first thought is that they 
were part of the ordinary furniture of a kitchen. But 
Mr. Baker very pertinently observes that the thinness of the 
metal and the condition which they are in at present contradict 
