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 BULLETIN MONUMENTAL. 355 Such a list is still a desideratum in our arcliaeological literature, which we hope to see supplied. An useful commencement was made in the first volume of the Archaeological Journal, but France and Germany have pro- duced more extended compilations, in which, as well as in the Abbe Cros- nier's treatise, our readers will find much valuable information, namely, the " Christlichc Kunst symbolik und Ikonographic," published at Francfort, 8vo., and " Die Attribute der Heiligen," Hanover, 1843, 8vo. Bulletin Moxumextal, dirige par M. De Caumont, 14^ Volume, No. 6. The present number is a striking contrast to the previous one, to which we had the pleasure of calling attention in the last number of our Journal. That number was full of engravings of objects of considerable interest, the present contains onlj^ one plate, outlines of primeval antiquities found at Londinieres, in 1847. The letter-press consists of a description of this excavation, by the Abbe Cochet. From the number of skeletons it was evidently a burial ground, from the manner in which they were disposed it belonged appa- rently to a pagan people, and from the nature of the articles and the coins found with them, the period was about the fifth century. The articles consist of swords, spear-heads, knives and hatchets of iron, vases of earthenware of debased Roman character, fibulas and buckles of bronze, and necklaces of beads of glass and earthenware. The onl}- coin which had the inscription legible is of the third century, but from various circum- stances, and a comparison with other similar discoveries, the author argues with ingenuity, that this deposit belongs to the fifth century, and to the ^Merovingian tribes. He considers the men to be Francs belonging to the original German invaders, settled in this part of France, and the females to be Gauls of the native tribes married to these invaders. The next paper is an historical and descriptive account of the cathe- dral of Valence, in Dauphiny, by the Abbe Jouve. This is an interesting and valuable paper, the more so because we have hitherto had comparatively little'^information respecting the churches in the south of France. The present cathedral was consecrated in 1095, as recorded on an inscription engraved on a marble tablet in uncial letters, which was described by M. Catelan in the early part of the last centuiy, but was unfortunately white- washed over about 1750. The building was in a great degree destroyed by the Protestants in the sixteenth century, but carefully rebuilt on the old foundation, and faithfully copied from the old work, a rare and singular instance at that period". At the end of this paper is a copy of the woodcut of the curious piscina-tomb at Long Wittenham, which appeared in the second volume of this Journal : it appears to be inti'oduced merely for orna- ment, and is not described or mentioned.