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 220 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE. tracery of which has unfortunately been broken away, so that the design cannot now be ascertained. Fibula, thus fashioned, are rare ; an example with pierced work of this description, was exhibited, with some very curi- ous remains found on the South Downs of Sussex, at a recent meeting of the Sussex Archteological Society at Lewes. They are in the possession of Frederick Dixon, Esq. Mr. Heitz has a fibula of similar form discovered at Nola. The armillte measures about 2 inches and three quarters, by 2 inches and a quarter; each extremity is formed with a loop, so that they might be attached either by a double hook, or tied with a lace. ANGLO-SAXON PEKIOD. We are enabled, by the aid of our obliging correspondent at Darlingtort, Mr. W. Hylton Longstaif, to submit to our readers a representation of another very rare type of fibula. It is formed of bronze, in shape very similar to a small tortoise, and is now in the possession of Mr. William Hedley, of Monkwearmouth, by whose kind permission it was exhibited in the temporary museum formed during the recent meeting of the Institute at Lincoln. Mr. Longstaff" gave the following interesting account of the dis- covery : — " The ornament here represented was found on the old Roman road from Catterick to Piersebridge (Cataractonium — Ad Tisam) now called Leeming-lane. In the centre of the road, near Bedale, a skeleton was found some years since, only one or two feet below the surface : the breast transfixed by a rude long square spear-head, very much corroded. ,0n the shoulders were two ornaments ; one here given, the second is stated to be preserved in the museum of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. No armour or other remains wei'e found. This remarkable relic consists of an oval, shell-like cup of bronze, with an ornamental border of rude dragons and snakes intertwined. On the reverse are remains of two projecting pieces at one end, to which the acus probably was attached by a hinge, and