CATALOGUE   OF   THE   ARCHAEOLOGICAL

                           MUSEUM,

            FORMED  AT  GLOUCESTER,  JULY,  1860.
 

ANTIQUITIES  OF  THE EARLIER PERIODS, INCLUDING  POTTERY, OBJECTS OF STONE,

                             BRONZE,  ETC.



  A small cup of rude pottery of the earliest period,  ornamented with

chevrony lines  scored or punctured on its  surface:  it has two small per¬

forations on  one side, possibly for suspension or facility in carrying.   Height,

l^in. diam. 2J in.  Found on the Cotteswold  range,  near  Cheltenham.—

Sir E.  Colt Hoare  notices, in his Ancient Wilts,  small urns  which he

designates incense-cups or thuribula, with small lateral holes,  possibly, as he

supposes, for suspension over the funeral pile, and intended to contain some

odoriferous  substances.   He has  figured  examples found  in barrows in

Wiltshire.—Capt. Bell, Chalfont Lodge, Cheltenham.

  A leaf- shaped flat  spear-head of flint, found at Hare Park, in the parish of

Dullingham, Cambridgeshire,  a  remarkable example,  6-|in.  in length,

2\ in. at the widest part of the blade; thickness about f in.  It has a deep

notch on each of its edges, towards the lower end,  probably for  attaching

it by a thong or cord to a haft —A triangular object of white flint, carefully

chipped to a sharp edge in each direction ;  the edges are slightly curvilinear;

diameter about  l^in. No  other example appears to  have been noticed.  It

was found in Cambridgeshire.—A small celt or axe-head of green  stone,

not perforated for a haft, and specially deserving of notice as having occurred

among Eoman remains at Ickleton, Cambridgeshire, in a building  which has

been designated a temple, or basilica.  Described  in Arclueol.  Journ., vol. vi.,

p. 17.—The Lord Braybrooke, F.S.A.

  Another leaf-shaped spear-head  of flint,  of unusually large dimensions,

symmetrical in form, and very skilfully made. Length  7 in.;  breadth at the

widest part of the blade 1\  in.   It  is not formed with notches as a means of

attachment.   Found at a depth of 16 ft. in cutting through " Jackdaw Hill,"

in making the Birmingham Eailway.  Sir R. Colt Hoare found two relics of

this description in barrows  in Wiltshire.  Ancient Wilts, vol. i.,  pi. 17, 19,

pp. 164, 172.   He considered the interments, where these occurred, to be of

the earliest  date.—A collection of  stone celts, chisels,  axe-heads  or mauls,

pierced for adjustment to a haft; a flint flake, or knife, of unusual size, 61 in.

in length ; a core  of flint,   or central  piece thrown  aside after chipping off

flakes ; a polishing or sharpening stone, with other stone implements of un¬

usual forms,  chiefly found in Burwell Fen, at Haddenham, and other places in

the Cambridgeshire Fens.—The Cambridge Antiquarian Society.

  Celt,  of dark green porphyry, found on the Battle Field, Clontarf:  length,

8f in.;  a fragment of a stone celt,  found  in England;  flint arrow-heads, of

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