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160 in the centre of each, and five rings of bronze, one peculiarity of which will be the groove or indentation running round the outermost side, and two or three of them will be found attachments, probably of leather. All the above, as before stated, were found together, and from the hinges, fastenings, nails, &c. the inference to be drawn is, that they were buried together.

At other parts of the field were found a vessel marked 16, a full-sized red dish, nine inches over, much broken, and plain, except a circle of rays round the inner part; in the centre is the potter's stamp. 17. Small plain simpulum, about six inches over, with potter's mark,, much mutilated. 18. Small deep patera, differing in form from any of the rest, 3$1⁄2$ inches over and 2 inches deep. 19. A few fragments of a large patera-like vessel, exhibiting appearances of having been mended before the time of its entombment; a slight inspection will be sufficient to ascertain that it has been riveted together with leaden rivets, much after the manner that china is mended now-a-days with copper wire, and it is an exemplification of the saying that there is nothing new under the sun. 20. Part of a very thick bottle of very green glass, bottom 3 inches square, found entire, but wantonly broken by the peasants who discovered it. 21. Wide-mouthed vessel of very thin greenish glass, 4$1⁄2$ inches high, mouth 2$3⁄4$ inches wide, holding about half a pint, embossed with protuberances after the manner of the cone of the fir, which in all probability was the model; this vessel is novel and possibly unique. 22. Lachrymatory, 3$1⁄2$ inches high. 23. Three very small bronze ornaments, similar to those at No. 15, and probably may have been used for a like purpose. 24. Coin of Trajan, second brass, with radiated head. 25. Small portion of an immense amphora.

Numerous fragments were found beneath the surface at different parts of the hill, and pieces of glass in considerable quantities, but all of the greenish cast, similar to those vessels before mentioned.

Although the site of this discovery is but three miles from the Roman station at Chesterford, it does not appear that it was at all connected with it, as the character of the vessels found clearly demonstrates, in one essential particular especially so, as no glass vessels have ever been found at Chesterford; indeed they are much more like those found at Bartlow, which is about four miles distant. The only clue as to date is that near the spot where the principal part of the