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 THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE. 295 fashioned into a tube, opon on the inner side ; tlio cuttinfr extremity of a gouge, a fragment about 1 k inch in length ; a small pointless bronze blade, of singular fashion ; the houterolle or tip of a small scabbard (?) ; and a small tube of unknown use, resembling that found in 182G in a quarry at Rosebury Topping, Yorkshire, with bronze celts, gouges, broken fragments, and a mass of metal like copper, 31b. in weight. Archajol. jilliana, vol. ii., pi. iv. p. 213. It has been supposed that these tubes may have been waste pieces, produced in casting certain objects of bronze. Two similar tubes found with broken celts and swords, socketed celts, a falx, and numerous minor objects, all of bronze, near the "Pierre du Vilain," in Alderney, are represented in Mr. Lukis' Memoir, Journal of the Archaeological Asso- ciation, vol. iii., p. 10. By the Rev. T. Hugo. — A large bronze celt, described as recently found in the Tiiames ; remarkable both on account of its large dimensions (length 7.} inches, breadth of the cutting edge 4 inches), and the fretty ornament which covers the greater part of its surface, formed by small indents which may have been impressed on the bronze by means of a blunt chisel. This example belongs to the first form of bronze celts, according to Mr. Dunoyer's classification (see vol. iv. of this Journal, p. 2, fig. a.), the edges are slightly raised. Compare the third type of celts, as described by Mr. Hugo in his Memoir on their classification. Journal of the British Archajological Asso- ciation, vol. ix., p. G6. pi. 12, figg. 8, 9. By Mr. Edward C. Ryley. — A collection of reliques of the Anglo- Saxon age, found in a sand-pit at Ash, near Sandwich in Kent, in 1771, and comprising several personal ornaments of beautiful workmanship, being a portion of those which were described and figured in the Appendix to Boys' History of Sandwich, p. 868. By Mr. J. Greville Chester. — Several specimens of the singular objects designated as "pulley beads," found in urns at Pensthorpe, Norfolk, sup- posed to be of the Anglo-Saxon period. They appear to he of bone (?), one side is convex, the otlier flat, with two, and in one instance three, small holes, by which they may have been afiixed like buttons. One of the urns contained burned bones, with fragments of iron and glass, a bone pin, and sixteen of these beads. Also a globular bead of dark-blue glass, found in an urn, supposed to be Saxon. — Some sharp-pointed tines of deers' horns found at Bedford castle, with a number of arrow heads, beads of vitrified paste and of agate or cornelian (?). The tines measure about 3o inches in length, and may have been used for the points of missile weapons. They have been regarded as of the Saxon period. — Also, a number of iron pheons and arrow heads, found at the New Farm, Blenheim Park, with examples of the forked arrow bead, similar to those figured in this Journal, vol. ix., p. 118, and found in Monmouthshire by Mr. Morgan. By Mr. Franks. — A ball formed of variously-coloured clays (?), the surface ornamented with circles enclosing stars of eight points, and wavy lines, producing the eff"ect of marble. It was found about twenty years ago in Lincolnshire, and is almost precisely similar to the ball formerly in Dr. Mantell's collection, stated to have been found in a British urn near Brighton, and represented in this Journal, vol. ix., p. 336. with another example found at Slymbridge in Gloucestershire. Mr. Franks observed that a similar ball was exhibited in the collection of Antiquities at Dublin during the last year. The ball now produced was found in a brook at Revesby. VOL. XI. Q Q