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 IN .MIMTAUY UI'KKATIONS. 3S7 which was torniod to cast socketed or hollow celts. Its external f'onii and decoration, and likewise its internal ap- pearance, are exhibited on a much reduced scale in the annexed wood-cut. It has a loop on each side, which would serve both to assist in carrying and suspending it, and also in tying the two halves together, when it was used for casting- celts. In the inside of the one half are seen two lateral ridges, and at the bottom tw^o notclies or tenons The wood- cut shows in the other half the two lateral channels and the two oval mortices, wdiicli are fitted to receive the ridges and the tenons. Provision is made for a loop on one side of the celts. The length of the mould is 15'5 centimetres (= 5^ in.), the length of the cavity for the celts to be manufactured from it, 11 centimetres. The fragments of celts, spear-heads, &c., found with it were probably designed for the melting-j)ot. The core, which w^as necessary to make the socket of the celts, has not been found. This fine sample of the apparatus of a Roman cerarius belongs to Clement Unthank, Esq., of Norwich, who has kindly entrusted it to me for examination. But of all the moulds designed for casting hollow^ celts, the most beautiful with which I am ac(][uainted is Mr. Bartlott's, now forming part of the fine collection in the British Museum. It is well represented and described both in the Archacologia, vol. v., p. 101), Plate VII., figs. 2, 3, 4, 5 ; and in the Archaeo- logical Journal, vol. iv,, p. 330, figs. 5, 6, 7, 8, where the pre-