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the theory of their having been subjected to fire. It seems 
more probable, as Mr. Baker, and Mr. Edmund Oldfield before 
him, suggest, that these have been wine vessels. Mr. Baker 
goes into elaborate calculations in order to show the number of 
ounces and pints that the bowls would contain, and these he 
translates into the measures in vogue among the Homans. 
Whether he is exact or not in his measures, it is not easy to say, 
without a close examination of the subject; but it is, I think, 
more than probable that we have before us a collection of 
Homan wine vessels. The wine which the Homans made was 
full of sediment and dregs, and one of the processes of clearing 
it required the use of one of these finely perforated colanders, 
such as you see upon the table. Again, these colanders were 
made use of to cool the wine with ice or snow, and to dilute it 
also, for the Homans were very fond of diluted wines. Filled 
with such a beverage the bowls before me, even when brimming 
over, would not alarm or injure the Homan drinker. He 
thought even more at times of the quantity than of the quality 
of the wine that he swallowed. In the vessels before us I seem 
to see the means by which the juice of the grape was strained 
or tempered for him. These are the cola or strainers through 
which the liquid passed from one vessel to another. The plates 
and dishes were probably for the snow or ice with which it was 
cooled or diluted. 
November 7th. —The Eev. Canon Haine read the fol¬ 
lowing “Account of an early Cemetery recently discovered 
at Selby.’ 7 —In the summer of 1857, when the Selby Board 
of Health were making a drain in a pail of that ancient town 
which is generally known as the Church Hill, the workmen, at 
a depth of some eight feet, came upon an early cemetery. The 
interments in it were of a remarkable and most unusual 
character. In every instance the body was laid in the trunk of 
an oak tree which had been split, and then hollowed out to 
permit the reception of the corpse. There was nothing to show 
that the two divided parts had been fastened together with 
bolts or pegs, but the lid seemed to have been simply laid down 
upon the coffin. Mr, Morrell, in his valuable history of Selby, 
