COUNCIL FOR 1859. 
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The Curator of Antiquities reports, that the principal 
additions made to his Department in the present year, have 
been the result of excavations carried on at the Mount, which 
has in past times yielded so many objects of the sepulchral 
class to the Museum. In an excavation at the corner of Hol- 
gate Lane, a fictile urn was discovered, of a character almost 
unique, having the shape of a human head, with the counte¬ 
nance distinctly expressed. In digging for the foundation of a 
house on the Driffield estate at the Mount, a sarcophagus was 
found, bearing the name of ^lia Severa and dedicated to her 
manes by her husband. It was covered by an incised slab, 
dedicated by Ceeresius, a soldier of the Sixth Conquering 
Legion, to the manes of his wife, Flavia Augustina, and two 
children who died in their infancy. The upper part of the 
stone represents the parents and their children. The sarcopha¬ 
gus contained the remains of a body which had been enclosed 
in liquid plaster, a mode of interment very common in Roman 
York, but rare elsewhere. Near the same place another sarco¬ 
phagus was found, containing a similar interment, but without 
any inscription. All these antiquities have been given to the 
Museum, and the names of the donors will be found in the 
lists appended to the Report. 
From Dr. Smart, of Northiam, have been received several 
specimens of what has been called Kimmeridge Coal Money, 
but is really the refuse of the pieces of this material which had 
been worked by the lathe into bracelets and other ornaments, 
in the Roman times. The cabinet of coins has received the 
accession of some silver denarii, among which is one of the 
family Memmia, and an Attic tetradrachm, bearing the names 
of Diodes and Medeius. 
The only addition to the collection of Minerals has consist¬ 
ed of a case of specimens presented by the Rev. Danson Rich¬ 
ardson Roundell, to whom the Society was already indebted 
for the magnificent Ichthyosaurus exhibited in the new room. 
The collection sent by Mr. Roundell included none that call 
for special notice. 
Besides the important series of fossils purchased from Mr, 
Bean and already referred to, the Geological collection has 
