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 of utenils found rather commonly in the Anglo-Saxon barrows are buckets. The firt of thoe repreented in our cut. No. 8, was found in

a Saxon barrow near Marlborough, in Wilthire; the other was found on the Chatham lines. As far as my own experience goes, I believe thee buckets are uually found with male keletons, and from this circumtance, and the fact of their being uually ornamented, I am inclined to think they erved ome purpoes connected with the fetivities of the hall; probably they were ued to carry the ale or mead. The Anglo-Saxon tranlation of the Book of Judges (ch. vii. ver. 20), rendered hydrias conregient by to-bræcon tha bucas, "they broke the buckets." A common

name for this implement, which was properly buc, was æcen, which ignified literally a'veel made of ah, the favourite wood of the Anglo-Saxons. Our cut. No. 9, repreents a bucket of wood with very delicately-formed bronze hoops and handle, found in a barrow in Bourne Park, near Canterbury, The wood was entirly decyaed; but the hoops and handle are in the collection of lord Londelborough. Such buckets have, alo, been found under imilar circumtances on the Continent. The cloe reemblance between the weapons and other intruments found in the Englih barrows and in thoe at Selzen, may be illutrated by a comparion of the two axes repreented in the cut, No. 10. The upper one was found at Selzen; the lower one is in the Mueum of Mr. Rolfe, and was obtained from a barrow in the Ile of Thanet. The ame imilarity is oberved between the knives, which is the more remarkable, as the later Anglo-Saxon knives were quite of a