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 THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE. 181 By the Cambridge Antiquakian Society, through Mr. Franks. — A specimen of ancient ware supposed to be of Anglo-Roman fabrication, found in a gravel-pit at Comberton, Cambridgeshire, December, 1848. It appeared to have formed the lid of a small jar, and deserves particular notice on account of a peculiarity in the fabrication, being of whitish coloured clay, coated with a red paste, possibly as an imitation of the coarser kinds of " Samian." — A dentated bronze ring, stated to have been found at Lidgate, Sutfolk. (See woodcut.) Objects of this kind occur frequently in Continental collec- tions, but have rarely (if ever) been found in this country. There are three specimens in the Goodrich Court Armory, all of bronze ; one precisely similar to the specimen here represented ; one similar in general form, but with three rows of teeth : the third has three rows of hooked teeih, like claws. Sir Samuel Meyrick describes them as dentated rings, the fonn apparently suggested by the iiiurex shell, and supposes they were placed on the whiriing arm of a military flail. These specimens were brought from Italy.' — A bronze signet-ring, date, about 1.500, found at Lidgate, Suffolk. The impress is a scutcheon of arms, attributed to the family named Amadis, of Plymouth, — a chevron ermines, between three oak slips acorned proper. The ring bears a large T on each shoulder of the hoop, probably allusive to St. Anthony. By John Carew, Esq., of Knightleys, Devon, through Mr Tucker. — The silver matrix appended to a chain, formerly the seal of Thomas Dene, prior of the Cluniac monastery of St. James, Exeter, founded by Baldwin de Redveriis, in the twelfth century. Dr. Oliver states, that Thomas Dene was prior in 14'28, and, as he believes, the last who filled that office, the property having been annexed by Henry Yl. in 1444, to the royal founda- tion of King's College, Cambridge. It is a seal of pointed-oval form : St. James, habited in the pilgrim's sclavyne and hat, appears in a niche of beautiful tabernacle- work; the legend is — ^ fc*£i tljomc Ufiu jpvior' txonie. This fine matiix was found, in 18-2*2, amongst some rubbish, in Southern- hay, Exeter. It is engraved in Dr. Oliver's valuable " Monasticon Diocesis Exoniensis." By Mr. Chichester, through Mr. Hardwick. — A massive signet-ring, of gold. liv Mr. Tucker. — A small incense-burner, of polished iron, of German workmanship, brought from Nuremberg. By Mr. Hawkins. — A bronze globular bell, or grelot, of unusual size (diam. nearly fom- inches), obtained from Congleton, Cheshire. In that town the following custom is observed : — On the eve of the parish wake, a man, in whose family certain belts or baldricks covered with these bells have been handed down from time immemorial, perambulates the streets, wearing the said belts, which are three in number, the bells of various of a detailed notice. In the curii)us assera- ]Irinoir, no similar specimen ocriirs. blagc of metal pendants and buckles, found ' Skelton, lUustr. of the Goodrich Court at Hojlake, and figured in Dr. Hume's Collection, vol. i., pi. xlv. VOL. VI. B B