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 ]94 PROCEEDINGS AT MEETINGS OF manship, but remarkable as having the acus and every other part as entire as when first made ; a portion of a bronze armilla, and several coins. Two of these are of silver, one a family coin of the Scribonian family, Rev. a well, with two lyres, one suspended on either side ; PUTEAL. SCRI- BON: (Akerman's Roman Coins, vol. i. p. 81.) The other silver coin is of Valentinian ; it is in fine presen-ation, and reads, Rev., VICTORIA. AUGGG ; iu the exergue, T. R. P. S.' " " I may also mention, that Roman coins are frequently found in a field at Popham, near College Wood. I have a very perfect stylus from this place, in which Roman bricks and pottery are strewn about. I had some small excavations made, but discovered nothing besides two small coins of Constantino and fragments of Roman bricks and pottery. About two feet from the surface was a large bed of oyster-shells and ashes, indicating, I should think, that foundations must exist near ; and this is certainly the case, as a wall of Roman bricks was actually dug out by Mr. Harding, the late occupant of a farm at Popham." "In a subsequent communication, Mr. Chester adds: — 'At Popham, I have no doubt some interesting discoveries might be made, if sufficient excavations were carried on. In one part, the ground is actually strewed with fragments of Roman pottery, of which I have collected fragments of more than twelve varieties. Small pieces of the bright red Samian are not uncommon, and many little brass Roman coins have often been found on the surface. In an adjoining field was found a curious copper figure of a Knight Templar, which appeared to have been gilt. This is in my own possession. It is considered by Sir Henry Ellis to be the ornament of a reliquaiy, possibly one of the sleeping figures represented as guarding our Saviour's tomb.' " " I tx'ust the Society will join me in an expression of thanks to Mr. Chester for the trouble he has taken in these obliging communications, as it is only by gentlemen who may be in the neighbom'hood where discoveries are made, communicating with the local secretaries, that those officers can really hope to carry out the objects for which they have been appointed. , " Before I conclude, I have to report another discovery made only yester- day in Winchester. It is that of a small Roman urn, of plain black ware, containing a few charred bones. It was found in digging a hole at about three feet from the surface, close to the north wall of our county museum, in which it has been deposited. It is an additional proof of the existence of an extensive Roman cemetery in this part of our city, of which numerous indications have at various times been brought to light." Mr. Gunner has since kindly undertaken to obtain a cast of this sculp- ture at Stoke Charity for the Museum of the Institute, and a representation will be given on a future occasion. The subject is obviously the legend of one of the miraculous personal appearances of the Saviour, during the performance of the mass, of which that supposed to have occurred to Pope Gregory the Great was frequently depicted in mediaeval works of art. Mr. Hatfield, of Doncaster, sent a rubbing of a sepulchral slab, the memorial of a child, found built in as a wall-stone on the interior side of the chancel, at Thorp Arch Church, Yorkshire. It is a slab of the magne- sian lime-stone of the district, and exhibits a cross, with an ornamented head, and the following inscription :— ^ HIC lACET lOH'ES FILIUS