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 304- PROCEEDINGS AT MEETINGS OF beads of amber are preserved in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy, but in no collection, as Mr. Hoare observes, is any relic of this nature preserved, to be compared with this, now in his possession. By Mr. Yates. — An iron-hooked implement, described as a sarculus, or hoe, discovered on the line of the Roman barrier-wall in Germany. By Mk. Farrer. — The sword of Tiberius, a remarkable relic of the Roman age found at Castel, on the Rhine, opposite to Mayence, with the remains of a pair of gates of bronze. It was formerly in the possession of a dealer in antiquities at Mayence, named Gold, who published a very faithful lithographic representation of this curious weapon. - By Dr. Kendrick, of Warrington. — Two ancient chess-men, found in a tumulus known as the " Mote Hill," a few hundred yards east of the parish church of Warrington. They are formed of fine jet, or "brown coal," similar in quality to that obtained from the aluminous shale in Yorkshire. One, of simple cylindrical form, supposed to be a pawn, was picked up by Dr. Kendrick in 1841, when an excavation was made at the Mote Hill. The other was discovered in 1 85 1, and has been supposed to be a knight. Sir F. Madden observes that these pieces may be Scandinavian, or Anglo- Saxon. Mr. Roach Smith conjectures that they may be as old as the ninth century. They will be deposited in the Warrington Museum. Dr. Kendrick sent also for examination two fine torques of silver, found in Lincolnshire, the exact locality unknown. They bear much resemblance in their fashion to that discovered in Staifordshire, and now in the posses- sion of Her Majesty the Queen. ^ By the Rev. C. Manning. — The curious gold ornament, found in Sufi"olk, represented in this Journal; and several gold and silver rings, of various periods. By Mr. Whincopp. — A sculptured capital, of late Roman, or Roman- esque work. It was found accidentally conveyed in a ship-load of coals, from the port of Newcastle. By Mr. AMiinost: Foynter. — Several relics of the Anglo-Saxon period. Jewelled ornament of gilt bronze, and Ijiickle, found at Kingwould, ICent. found on the estate of the Rev. John Monins, at Ringwould, about 6 miles from Dover on the road to Deal, in trenching the ground to make a garden. They lay very near the surface. The ground had long been - See also the memoir by Dr. Lcrsch. Bonn, 1849, and that by Klein in the Transactions of the Mayence Antiquaries, No. II., Mayence, 1850. •' Archicologia, vol. xxxiii., plate 8.