Among other remains of this period it will be sufficient to mention an iron dagger in a bronze sheath,[1] found in the Thames; a bronze figure of Cupid from Haynford,[2] in Norfolk; a very beautiful glass vessel found at Colchester,[3] from the Mantell Collection; various Roman vessels of earthenware found on the borders of Hertfordshire, in Suffolk, and at Colchester, and several white-metal vessels found at Icklingham in Suffolk.
Saxon Gold Ring, Bormer, Sussex.
With regard to Saxon antiquities, a branch of British archæology in which the Museum is especially deficient, a very welcome accession is to be found in those presented by Viscount Folkestone. They are the result of the excavations conducted by Mr. Akerman on Harnham Hill, near Salisbury, and are especially valuable on account of the careful and scientific manner in which that gentleman conducted his researches. A detailed account of them will shortly appear in the Archæologia. We are indebted to Mr. Josiah Goodwyn for several iron weapons discovered at Harnham previously to Mr. Akerman's excavations. A few Kentish antiquities of this period were included in the Mantell Collection, as well as some interesting relics from Sussex. Among the latter should be noticed the gold ring found at Bormer,[4] of which a representation is annexed. Its similarity to the gold ornaments found at Soberton,[5] with coins of William the Conqueror, seems to preclude our attributing this object to an earlier period.
Two urns and bronze ornaments from Quarrington in Lincolnshire, have been presented by the Rev. E. Trollope; another urn, from Pensthorpe, in Norfolk, by Mr. Greville Chester; and a circular brooch from Fairford by Mr. J. O. Westwood.
The singular copper dish found at Chertsey has been aquired for the Museum. It is chiefly remarkable for an inscription on its rim, published in the Archæologia[6] by Mr.
