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 188 PROCEEDINGS AT MEETINGS OF By Mr. Talbot. — A bronze celt, found a few years since in digging the foundations of a house in Harewood-square, London, seven feet below the surface ; the soil consisted of stiff clay and sand, and beneath was hard compact gravel. It was said that the ground showed no appearance of having been disturbed. The dimensions of the celt, which resembles the type, with a loop at the side, in Mr. Du Noyer's Classification (Archaeolo- gical Journal, vol. iv.. p. 5, fig. H), are as follows: — Length, 6 inches, one end being imperfect ; greatest breadth of the blade. If inches ; weight, 15 oz. It is much decomposed, and coated with blue carbonate of copper. On analysis, made at the Museum of Economic Geology, Mr. Phillips reported that the metal included a sufficient quantity of tin to give it the requisite hardness, and the usual character of bronze. By the Hon. Richard Neville. — Several Anglo-Roman antiquities, comprising the bronze cross-guard of a knife, or small dagger, and a little pastille-box of the same metal, found in a Roman villa at Chesterford. Also, a clasp-knife of bronze, the handle representing a hare pursued by a hound; the iron blade consumed by rust. Found at Hadstock in 1846. (See woodcut.) A similar bronze knife was found by Douglas in a tumulus at Chatham, probably of early Saxon age (Nenia, pi. xx., p. 82), and another, of less rude workmanship, representing a hare and hound, was found at Reculver. See Batteley's " Antiqu. Rutupinse," (tab. xi., p. 126). By THE Rev. H. Maclean, Vicar of Caistor, Lincolnshire. — Impressions of several Roman and other coins found near that place, comprising several brass coins of the imperial series, much defaced, namely, coins of Anto- ninus Pius and Commodus, a small brass of Carausius, apparently the same type as that given in the " Materials for the History of Britain," from the Hunter Museum (pi. xi., fig. 21.) Rev. VAX AVGG. Also a coin of the Byzantine series, struck at Nicomedia, too imperfect to be identified — all these found at Caistor. A silver twopence of the Commonwealth, same as Ruding, pi. xxxi., fig. 10, but the harp in the second shield — Caistor. Two jettons, one with a crown inscribed AVE (Snelling, pi. xi., fig. 15); the other (pi. xi., fig. 22), found at Thoresway and Nottleton. A circular scutcheon plate, or ornament of the cover of a book, of brass pierqed, the design resembling the tracery of a rose window — found in Thoresway churchyard. A leaden token, cast in a mould, and of very rude design : — Ohv. a male head, surrounded by a ehaplet. Rev. a bird. Mr. Maclean sent also impressions of a diminutive ring-fibula of gold, found in a field near Caistor. Diameter, about six-tenths of an inch ; one side is set with six emeralds, or fictitious gems ; on the other, which is flat, is inscribed, BEL AMIE NE ME VBLIE MIE. Date, 14th century.