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410 of the Roman period were well illustrated by those contributed by his Grace the Duke of Wellington, through the Rev. J. G. Joyce, as a selection from the great store-house of Silchester;—these were chiefly specimens of iron-work, pottery, and tiles. Mr. Yonge sent three querns found at Otterbourne, fragments of pottery found with one of them, and a piece of timber, supposed to be part of a Danish vessel burnt in the river Hamble, A.D. 886. Sir G. J. Stueley, Burt., contributed a bronze female figure found at Pompeii, a bronze cast of Caius Marius in the seventh year of his consulate, a double headed and bodied bronze figure, also a bronze ring and marble vase. The Mayor of Southampton also sent two fine bronze figures. The Rev. E. Kell sent a Roman tile from Clausentum, a bronze fibula and bracelet from Vindomium, and fragments of Samian ware from Netley; while the Rev. J. H. Austen sent a Roman armlet, a fibula, and other articles of that period. The same gentleman also contributed specimens of Kimmeridge coal money, iron spear-heads and other weapons, some Cingalese writings, and miscellaneous objects. Mr. Cumberbatch sent a bronze palstave and a leaden steelyard weight.

Dr., the Rector of Basingstoke, contributed a small enamel painting of St. Michael, three Italian bronze plaques, a draught-man in walrus tusk of twelfth century, and a small pectoral cross of gold. The Rev. Greville Chester sent some early Christian vestments found in Lower Egypt (see p. 292). The Rev. E. L. Berthon, vicar of Romsey, brought the scalp of a lady found in a lead coffin under the foundation of a part of Romsey Abbey Church, a cope of the sixteenth century worked by the nuns of Romsey, and a mason's tool used in building the Lady Chapel in 1305. The Rev. A. Wodehouse sent the alabaster figure of St. John found under the flooring of Easton Church, Hants, of which a notice has already appeared in the Journal (see p. 91); and Mr. Jackson sent two sculptures in alabaster, portions of an altar-piece, one representing the Adoration of the Magi, and the other Delilah cutting Samson's hair. Mr. Severn Walker brought a processional cross, a bronze cross fleury, a small crucifix, and a sacring bell with clapper. Mr. Bonham Carter, M.P., exhibited the original matrices of the fine seal of Southwick Priory, one of the most remarkable specimens of sphragistic art.

Of enamels and ivories the display was small. The Rev. J. F. Russell brought a pair of devotional tablets, and a leaf of another tablet, circa 1300; a group in high relief, representing the Blessed Virgin and holy women, fourteenth century; an enamelled plate of the twelfth century, a fine example of champ-levé work. Mr. Nightingale contributed a leaf of a diptych of the fourteenth century, a Lombardic plaque of the twelfth century, a Byzantine plaque of the same period, and two later examples; and Mr. J. G. Nichols an ivory carving of Sir Martin Frobisher by Marchant. Mr. Greenfield sent four carved oak panels, and other carvings were contributed by the Winchester Museum. Two excellent examples of watches of the seventeenth century came from Admiral Love. These were presented by Oliver Cromwell to Ralph Hawtrey, Esq., and his wife, of Eastcott House, Ruislip, in acknowledgment of their reception of his troops while he held a commission at a little inn at Uxbridgo, still called the Treaty House. Other watches were sent by the Rev. J. F. Russell and Sir G. Stueley, Bart. Sir Stafford Carey brought a medallion, in wax, of Pierre Carey, high bailiff of Guernsey,