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 296 KNIGHTLY EFFIGIES AT SANDAYICH AND ASH. repoussee vers le milieu de maniere a presenter I'aspect d'une rivure. Mais ce qui ajoute beaucoup de prix k ce morceau deja si curieux, c'est le cartouche de Scheschonk, le Sesak de la Bible, grave sur une de ces ecailles. Cette cuirasse a ete trouvee dans un lijpogee de la haute Egj^pte." Examples of scale-armour during the classic period are of too frequent occurrence in the sculptures, the paintings and other monuments of this time, to need a particular enumeration. The plates of Hope's Costumes furnish many beautiful instances, and in the British Museum the charming bronze statue of Mars, found in the Falterona lake, should not be overlooked. See also a second statuette of Mars, figured in the useful Handbook to the Antiquities of the Museum, lately published by Mr. Vaux. Specimens of scale- armour of this age are of the greatest rarity. A fragment unquestionably of Roman manufacture claims especial notice, as having been found in England. It was discovered with various objects of the Roman age, fibulse, and ornaments of bronze, fragments of " Samian " ware, and other rehcs undoubtedly assignable to that period, disinterred in the course of excavations recently directed by Sir Wilham Lawson, Bart., at the site of the station of Cataracto7imm, in Yorkshire, on the southern bank of the Swale, at Catterick bridge. The material is bronze : each scale is attached to its fellow by a Httle bronze ring, a contrivance which appears to secure flexibility to the garment without greatly impairing its compactness. The apertures in the upper part of the scales are clearly for the purpose of lacing them to the basis of leather or other material which held the whole together. We are indebted to the kindness of Mr. Albert Way, for the accompanying sketch of this interesting relic, to Fragment of bronze scale-armour,. i • i i found near Catterick, Yorkshire. whOm alSO WO OWC that it haS 06611 brought into notice, and assigned to its proper class among the vestiges of Roman Britain. It is interesting to compare this httle relic with the curious scaled defence, of which a fragment was found at Pompeii, and is