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80 having been carried away by persons who chanced to visit the ruins, the remainder had been thrown into the closets which surrounded the room, which were then nailed up, and the papers left to decay. The present state of this chamber is such, that at no very distant time it must fall, and these old documents will probably perish.

Mr. Thomas King, of Chichester, communicated an account of the singular interment discovered in a barrow in Dale Park, near Arundel, which was opened in June, 1810, by the Rev. James Douglas, the author of the Nenia, and Mr. King. The tumulus was formed of coarse gravel, and no signs of any vallum around it could be perceived. In the mound, the elevation of which was inconsiderable, portions of charred wood were found, and about a foot beneath the level of the natural soil a perfect skeleton was discovered, the head placed towards the north; it measured six feet, and at the feet were placed a pair of large stag's antlers. The form of the tumulus was oval, the longer diameter being north and south, corresponding to the direction in which the corpse had been deposited.

Mr. Smith laid before the Committee a letter from Mr. W. P. Griffith, representing that St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell, which was the south gate of the Hospital of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, finished A. D. 1504, had fallen into decay, so that the state of the building has been reported to be dangerous, and that the official referees, under the new Metropolitan Building Act, have directed Mr. Robert Sibley, district surveyor of Clerkenwell, to make a survey of its present condition. Portions of the decayed facing of the gate have from time to time fallen, to the annoyance of the neighbours, who are disposed to desire its removal, and if the proprietor does not think fit to repair it, the building will probably be condemned to destruction, in pursuance of the act of parliament. Mr. Manby promised to obtain further information on the subject.

Mr. Goddard Johnson communicated a notice of the discovery of some bronze implements, in the village of Carlton Rode, about three miles south of Attleborough in Norfolk, by a labourer employed in digging a ditch in a piece of pasture land, the property of the Rev. Thomas Slapp. Four bronze gouges were found, three of which have sockets for hafts, and one has a shank to be inserted into a haft; there were also bronze punches, chisels, celts, portions of celts, being the cutting ends of those implements, and several pieces of metal, of which one appeared by its shape to have been the residuum left in the melting-pot. There was no appearance of a tumulus, or any other trace of ancient occupation, near the spot. Mr. John-