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example of sucli an ornament lias been found. In tbe Ai’ras gi’ound, 
besides the grave of the charioteer, v'as found a barrow containing 
a female skeleton, accompanied by a number of female ornaments, 
a hundred beads of glass or vitrified paste, and, of unusual beauty, 
a ring of amber, and a round ornament, which appears to have 
been worn as a pendant from the neck; bracelets, tweezers, a 
fibula, and a pin. The only article of gold which these excavations 
produced was a ring, very pure, weighing 3 dwts. 21 grains, and 
of elegant workmanship. 
Besides the antiquities from Arras and Hessleskew, we are 
indebted to Mr. Stillingfleet for some Saxon antiquities from 
Kilham, among which are several brooches of large size, closely 
resembling those from the Driffield tumulus in the Hospitium. It 
is to be hoped that the noble exam^fie of Mr. Stillingfieet will be 
followed by other discoverers and collectors of Yorkshii’e antiquities. 
It might be invidious to urge the claims of our own as a county 
museum against those of local institutions of the same kind; but 
where no such repository exists, in which antiquarian collections 
may be secured against the risk of dispersion, or of falling into 
the hands of those by whom they would be neglected and lost, it is 
greatly to be desired that they should be placed under the guardian¬ 
ship of a Society by which they will be valued and preserved, and 
beside objects of a similar kind, by comparison with which their 
true nature may be illustrated.” 
Nov. 7.—The Bey. J. Kexrick read a “Notice of some Bornan 
Silver Coins, presented by the Bev. E. W. Stillingfleet.” He said 
—The Boman silver denarii, presented to the Society by the 
Bev. Mr. Stilhngfleet, are chiefly of the class called Numi Eamili- 
arum. They derive them name from the circumstance of them 
being inscribed with the name of the gens to which the mint- 
master (triumvir or quatuorvir monetarius) or other public officer 
by whom they were struck belonged. The name, indeed, is not 
very correct, for of the three names which every Boman of family 
bore, as Bublius Cornelius Scipio, the second is the name of the 
gens, the third of the family. But as we have no English word 
which exactly answers to gens, the coins in question have been 
Called family coins. Their special interest arises from the circum¬ 
stance, that as the s^oirit of republicanism forbade an}* individual to 
put his own head on the public coinage, the obverse exhibits the 
head of Borne, or some deity, while the reverse is occupied by 
