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338 TWO REMARKABLE GLOBULAR OBJECTS. in this Journal. (See p. 179, ante.) Imperforated beads of unusual size, and formed of richly variegated glass, have been found in several instances/ These facts may be acceptable, as connected with the two very singular balls, now published; tending to demonstrate the frequent practice of depositing some spherical ornament, possibly associated with the notion of tahsmanic influence, or magical virtues, in the tombs of an early period. a. w. ■• Archaeol. Jouru. vol. iii., p. 354. in the Museum of the Cambridge Anti- Beesley's Hist, of Banbury, pi. viii. quarian Society, and another is in the Brit. Archaeol. vol. 34, pi. 5. A fine specimen is Mus., figured by Rymsdyk.