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 and deign of all thee various articles, without deriving any knowledge as to the manner in which they were ued. The ubject now becomes a more extenive one; and in the Anglo-Saxon barrows in England, we find a mixture, in thee articles, of Anglo-Saxon and Roman, which furnihes a remarkable illutration of the mixture of the races. all perfectly well acquainted with Roman types; and in the few examples which can be here given of articles found in early Anglo-Saxon barrows, I hall only introduce uch as will enable us to judge what claes of the ubequent mediæval types were really derived from pure Saxon or Teutonic originals.

It is curious enough that the poet who compoed the romance of Beowulf enumerates among the treaures in the ancient barrow, guarded

by the dragon who was finally lain by his hero, "the dear, or precious drinking-cup" (dryncfæt deóre). Drinking-cups are frequently found in the Saxon barrows or graves in England. A group, repreenting the more uual forms, is given in our cut, No. 1, found chiefly in barrows in Kent, and preerved in the collections of lord Londeborough and Mr. Rolfe, the latter of which is now in the poeion of Mr. Mayer, of Liverpool. The example to the left no doubt repreents the "twited" pattern, o often mentioned in Beowulf, and evidently the favourite