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 NOTICES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL I'LIJLICATIONS. 2 lit Saraiaii ware, bearing the potters' marks — MERCATOR and COTTO botli well known to antiquaries, as found in London, and GATTIVS MANSINVS, the impress of which was reversed. In North Wales we nro told, that numerous discoveries have been made at Segontium (Caernarvon), consisting of a Roman hypocaust and baths (engraved vol. i., p. 177), and four other bildings {ibid. p. 285), with a considerable list of coins • which, with tiles, a curious inscribed piece of slate, and other relics, arc deposited in the interesting museum establi.shed at Caernarvon. Some good specimens of Roman glass, found in a railway cutting near Caerleon, are deserving of notice. (Vol. iii., p. 187.) Two were deposited in stone coffins, with human remains. " Sa- niian " and other Roman ware, a bronze lamp, and other relics were found near the spot. Of the most uncommon type a re- presentation is here given. Another, with one handle, was of square form, not unlike those found in the Bartlow Hills, <kc. The third was cylindrical, with one handle. A very singular little relic, described as a "British amulet," is figured (Vol. iii., p. 97), and we gladly avail ourselves of the Glass vessel found at Cam le in. obliging permission of the publisher to lay before our readers the annexed representation, (orig. size.) Iioping that its date or intention may be explained. It was found in Merionethshire, and is of a dingy green compound metal. It has been attributed to the age of British primitive Christianity. Of Welsh Ecclesiastical and Medieval anti- quities, the volumes before us contain a store of information, not to be met with elsewhere. Among the former, relating to existing cathe- drals, Mr. Freeman gives " Some remarks on the Architecture of the Cathedral of LlandafF," accompanied by a ground plan, showing the dif- ferent styles which are found in the building. The outline and plan of the building he considers is its most remarkable point. Its most marked peculiarity is the absence " not only of a central tower, but of transepts in any form. In this respect it is uniipic among the cathedrals of South Britain, and has but few parallels among churches of equal size, even when not designed as episcopal sees." (Vol i., A'eu' Scries. 1 p. 109.) We learn from a " Memoir on the History and Architecture of the Cathedral of Llandaft " [ibid. p. 24), by the Dean, that the original foundation of the see is ascribed to the influence of St. Germanus and Lupus, on their dei)utation from the council held at Troyes. in the middle of the fifth century ; and that Urban, the earliest bishop of this district after the Norman conquest, found there a primitive cathedral, founded by Dubritius, its first bishop, which " consisted rather of a small chapel than a church, its length being only 28 feet, its breadth 15 feet, and height 20 feet. Two small aisles, however, are also mentioned, as also a circular