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 254 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE. is in the cabinet of the Right Hon. Lord Holmesdale. It was purchased, together with a bronze vessel, in 1841, by Mr. Rowland Freeman, a medical man, at Minster Thanet, from a labourer who had discovered them both a few days before, about four feet deep in the chalk. The spot where they were found is described in Lewis's History of Thanet, (p. 48,) as an ancient burying ground about three rods east of the town, and there are many barrows near it hitherto unexplored. In turning up the soil human bones are invariably found for some distance, and a few years back, a stone coffin was dug up in the old burying ground, and is now used as a water-trough in a farm-yard close by. The person who found them stated that they were in the same grave, and not many inches apart, but the fibula was not in the brass vessel: there was something attached to the ornament having the appearance of a small chain of some material into which gold had been interwoven, but as soon as it was touched it pulverized. PERIOD OF GOTHIC ART. The specimens of medieval glazed pottery, of which representations are here given, Avere found at a considerable depth, in making an excavation for the construction of vaults, at Messrs. Powell's, Star-yard, Carey-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields. The larger vessel measures 71 inches in height, the diameter of the mouth is 2i inches. The dimensions of the smaller are, height, 5 inches, diameter of the mouth, 2 inches and three eighths. They are formed of whitish coloured clay, of good compact quality, and the upper part of each vessel is coated with a mottled-green glaze. With these was found the lower portion of a cresset, or chaufferette, of whitish coloured ware, the interior had been coated with green glaze, an aperture on one side of the foot had served for clearing away the ashes ^. Height, 2 in., diam. of foot, about 4 in. These examples of ancient fictile manufacture were communicated by Mr. Nathaniel Powell. Some exceedingly curious examples of ware, with a bright green glaze, are preserved in the museum •* " Batulus, a cressed, quoddam vas in quo pommtur prune,"— Ortus Vocabulorum, 1.51G.