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 THE AllClIAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE. I 15 live feet six inches in length, lying in a north-east and a south-west direction, at the north-cast extremity of the grave. The grave had a stone eight or nine inches high, at the head and foot of it ; it was covered with two rough slahs, each two feet six inches in length, and was lined on either side with a row of rough stones, laid hy a very rude and unskilful hand. It would appear to have been the tomb of a female, from its dimensions, and the circumstance of a thimble being found in it, Mr. Roach Smith had informed Mr. Ffoulkes that he knew of several instances of thimbles being discovered with shoes of similar pattern in graves, and kindly showed some to him, which had been so found. Judging from the shoes he saw in Mr. R. Smith's interesting collection, as well as from illustrations of ancient costume given in the Pictorial History of England, Mr. Ffoulkes thought the shoe belonged to the time of Henry VIII. The earlier shoes, before the long pointed fashion was in vogue, seemed to come higher up on the instep : but he was unable to offer any decided opinion. There seemed to be no doubt that it was a medieval shoe, and entitled to the notice of the student of ancient costume. The fullest treatise on the various fashions in coverings for the feet, used in this country, from the earliest times, may be found in Mr. Fairholt's " Costume in England." (pp. 442 to 460.) ^utiquittrS anil USavM of ^rt (Sri)tbittn. By Mr. Whincopp. — A collection of antiquities of various periods, comprising two diminutive British urns, one of them found in 1850 near the cliffs at Felixstow, Suffolk ; the other in 1851 at Bawdsey, on the property of J. G. Sheppard, Esq., (Dimensions, 3i inches high, by 3 inches diameter at the mouth ; the second, 31 inches high, and the like diameter.) A good example of the bronze objects, of the Roman period, repeatedly found in Italy, and supposed to have been used to give a firmer gripe in drawing the bow, (See woodcut, orig. size.) The intention, how- ever does not appear to be satisfactorily ascertained. (Skelton, Goodrich Court Armory, pi. 45, fig. 5.) Several fibulre and clasps of bronze, of the Saxon period, found at Northwold, Norfolk, and at Driffield : small bronze cylinders, ten in number, about three quarters of an inch long, and half an inch in diameter, perforated, and resembling the fossils known as encrinites ; they were found at the feet of a skeleton near Balkern Fort, Colchester, and had probably been strung as a necklace. An interesting fragment of Saxon work, found at Melton, Suffolk, in 1833 ; it is part of a