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102 PROCEEDINGS AT MEETINGS OF This, which, it can scai-cely be doubted, served the purposes of a spur, is in })OSsessiou of the Kev. K. Gordon, of Klsfield, Oxou ; it was found in araltle hind, where Konian ornaments, Sumiun, and other luuiian wares are frequently turned up by the pK>ugh.^ A tiiniihxr spur uf iron, with a recurved houk t'U tlie under sside ; one of the shanks, which are diago- nally grooved, thus resembling parts of the edges of the relic from Llaut- wit ^lajor, nuich shorter than the other, and terminating in buttons, placed, as in the KlstieUl example, on the inner side of the shank, was found at Uriconiuni, and is preserved in the Museum at Slirewsbur^'. A third Roman spur, with the recurved hook, and one of the shanks much shorter than the other, was found at Ell (IJlsebttm) iu Alsace. Amongst several other examj)les of bronze spurs given by Lindenschmit (Alterth. ims. heidn. Vorzeit, ii. liand. Heft. i. tap. 7) there is a beautifully wrought Koman sj)ecimen from Kheinzabern, antl in this, as well as other examples of that period, the j^eculiar dentated edges of the shanks and fastenings on the inner side claim com])arif!on with those found in this country, as above noticed. It must be observed that the brnkeii extremities of the bifurcate shanks in the remarkable relic in Dr. Carne's possession may have termi- nated in buttons, or other ai^jliances fur attachment to the heel, and that to the blunt end of the other extremity may doubtless have been attached an aculfus, either of bronze or of iron. Numerous lloman coins and other vestiges have been found near Llantwit, some of them near the sjiot where the cist and bronze relic were brought to light. The whole place, as Dr. Carne has informed us, is studded over with Koman remains, lioverton, in the ))arish, jjrobably occupies the site of liucunn, a station on the Via Julia Maritima : here is also a stronghold called Castle Ditches, where lumian coins have occurred. It must be noticed that at Coigan's Hill, neai- Kyn Cadel, in the adjacent c(junty of Caermarthen, ji tomb hewn in the rock was dis- covered, resembling in dimensions and character that at Llantwit. The cavity measured 4ft. Gin. by lift. Gin., and 2ft. in depth. A human skeleton crouched up on one of its sides lay in the cist, with a bronze colum or strainer, and numerous coins of Carausius, AUectus, Cams, and TetricuH. There were also in the mould in the cist, which was sur- rounded by a kind of vail of dry masoniy, many bones of birds and small animals, and snail shells, 'i'he ]irobability that the Llantwit dcpo.sit may be a.scribed to the late Roman ])erit)d ajipears thus conliruied. Uy M. VnTuit Di; 1?L( ll, of Mnisscls. — Two M.S.S. Books of Hours ; one of them executed ftir theChevalierCroosinck, Seigneur do l>enthui.<en and Joctemeel : Flemish art, about 118<"». The other, likewise of Flemish work, about l.*iOO. I'y Mrs. Mr.vnows I-'hci.st, of Chester. — 'Ihree Medals of the series of Sovereign rontills, fine exiunples of Itali.ui art, tach bearing a jjrofdc head of Our Lord, and on the obvcnic tiie liead of the I'opc, Pius V., li.OG — " IJeati (|ui cnHto<liunt vi/is incjiM ;" Alcxiuider 'll., Cu>l — "Vivo ego jam non ego ;" and Gregory XV., IG'JI — " lieati (pii custodiunt vias mcus." These choice medals arc specially interesting for comj>arison with ' H«!0 ft moto (l(;tnilc<l notice, Arcli. * Noticed of Lnnf^li.imc, by tlio Kov. Joiirii , vol. xii. {I. 17'*'. 'i iio liixl oo- J. N. KiirriNon, and (Jcut. Mng., xiv. currffi ni'ftr tijo Uoman w.iy fi'-m Al- C)l, xviii. 473 cheater to Dorcbcdtcr.