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 the Germano-Saxon graves. Four examples from the cemetery at Selzen, are given in the cat No, 4. We have here not only the rude-formed veels with lumps on the ide, but alo the charaderiftic ornament of  croes in circles. The next cut. No. 5, repreents two earthen veels of another decription, found in the graves at Selzen. The one to the right is evidently the prototype of our modern pitcher. I am informed there is, in the Mueum at Dover, a pecimen of pottery of this hape, taken from an Anglo-Saxon barrow in that neighbourhood; and Mr. Roach Smith took fragments of another from an Anglo-Saxon tumulus near the ame place. The other variation of the pitcher here given is remarkable, not on account of imilar pecimens having been found, as far as I know, in graves in England, but becaue veels of a imilar form are found rather commonly in the Anglo-Saxon illuminated manucripts. One of thee is given in the group No. 6, which repreents

three types of the later Anglo-Saxon pottery, elected from a large number copied by Strutt from Anglo-Saxon manucripts. The figure to the left, in this group, is a later Saxon form of the pitcher; perhaps the ingular form of the handle may have originated in an error of the draughtman.

Among the numerous articles of all kinds found in the early Anglo-Saxon graves, are bowls of metal (generally bronze or copper), often very thickly gilt, and of elegant forms; they are, perhaps, borrowed from the Romans. Three examples are given in the cut No. 7, all found in Kent. They were probably intended for the ervice of the table. Another clas