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 184 PROCEEDINGS AT MEETINGS OF formed like a modern pan for a flower-pot, so as to overlap the top of the urn, and etfectually preserve the contents from admixture with the soil. Dimensions, urn, — Diam. at top, 6 in.; foot, 2|- in. ; height, 7 in.; diam. of cover, 6;^ in. These JictiUa have been deposited in the County Museum, at Winchester. Mr. Gunner communicated also a drawing of the mural painting discovered in the church of St. Laurence, Winchester, representing St. Christopher. A letter was read from the Rev. Dr. Oliver, Vicar of Scopwick, Lincoln, giving an account of the discovery of British urns near Wold- Newton, Lincolnshire, in 1828. Some workmen digging materials for mending the roads, found an ancient cemetery, described as a large tumulus, spreading over about three acres, and composed entirely of gravel, which must have been conveyed from a distance, the Wolds, on which the place is situate, being a ridge of chalk. Upon this tumulus w-as another of smaller size, the " long barrow " of Sir R. C. Hoare's classification, in which more than twenty urns, of various forms, had been deposited, arranged in a line, the whole length of the mound, the mouths upwards. They lay about three feet from the surface, and at irregular distances, some being close together, others three or four feet apart. Three only were preserved, and they were sent by Dr. Oliver to the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. They were fabricated without use of the lathe, and rudely scored with lines and circles ; these urns were half filled with ashes, calcined bones, and black greasy earth. Dr. Oliver supposes that this tumulus had been a family burying-place of some British chief, the larger mound being possibly the cemetery of his tribe.^ Mr. J. 0. Westwood exhibited rubbings of a Roman-British inscrip- tion, built into the wall of Llanver Church, near Bala, Merionethshire, communicated to him by Wm. W. E, Wynne, Esq., consisting of the letters CAVOSENIARCIL The letters are of the Roman capital form, but rather rudely shaped, about 2^ inches high, and the A and V conjoined, •"' The aiuiciit villac^e of Wold-Newton is of tlic dialk ridge vliich extends in a line named in Domesday as liaving a cliurch and from N. to S. througii nearly half the country, a hall, &c. It is situate nearly at the centre and is known as the " Lincolnshire Wolds."