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 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE. 157 tares of the effigy are defaced, and botli the legs have been broken below the knees; otherwise it is in good preservation." The cross, as shewn in the annexed representation, is of the fashion heraldically termed rcifjuU, which is not of common occurrence. Another example exists in the church of Bredon, Gloucestershire, of which a representation has been given in a former volume of this Journal i. In the course of some alterations made by the bishop of Oxford in the beginning of the present year, in front of the gateway of the episcopal palace at Cuddesden, the workmen, while digging for making a new car- riage-way, discovered several human skeletons at the depth of between two and three feet from the surface. On further examination it was found that the skeletons were arranged in a circle, the heads outwards, lying on their faces, and with their legs crossed. They were in a high state of preservation. Near them were found several highly curious and interesting objects, but which appear to belong to different periods. Among them were two sword blades, but in such a state of decay as to offer no distinctive charac- GLASS VASES. ter. The other articles (which are here represented) were : — two small glass vases ; they are of a very pale blue transparent glass, the surface of which has become iridescent from decomposition, and this in the larger one gives it a streaky appearance. The larger vase is 3 inches deep by 5| in diameter, and is ornamented on the sides with three waved lines touching at the projections; underneath is a figure much resembling the cusping of a circular window. The other vase is 4| in. in diameter. The pattern on both is produced by thick threads of glass applied to the surface while melted. A vessel of bronze, the lower part of which appears 1 Archaeol. Journal, vol. iv. p. 91. This type of the cross does not appear to have been particularized by M. Didron, in his Iconographie Chretienne.