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288 PROCEEDINGS AT MEETINGS OP globular form, with the mouth somcwhut produced, and tlio lip upright or slightly everted, recalls the common form of Anglo-Saxon urn ; but they are distinguished fn>m these by the style of ornament, which in the l^ritish cinemry imis under consideration consists of parallel grooves round the neck and shoulder, sometimes varied by zigzags. In many also there arc small knobs or cai-s, two, three, or four in munber, arranged at intervals round the shoulder, which knobs are often pierced as if for the insertion of a fine string or thong. These small holes, where they exist, are always ])laced horizontally. " The groat peculiarity about these urns is connected with their gcogi-.i])hical distribution. Si> far as ajipears at present, they arc almost exclusively confined to Dorsetshire, and very much so to the central district of that county, between the towns of Blandford and Dorchester. There arc several in Mr. Durden's collection in the former jdace, and out of eighteen innis from the celebrated Devercll barrow as many as ten were of this form. Seven or eight are figured by Mr. Charles Warne, F.S.A., from four Dorsetshire localities, three of wiiich arc on or near the llidgeway, in the southern division of the county. Their greater prevalence is, however, very marked in the central division already referred to, and which corresponds veiy closely with 'Section VIII.' of Mr. Warne's ' Map of Ancient Doi-set.' Mr. AVanie figures two from Whitchurch in this district ; and in addition to the large number from the Devercll baiTow, and that from Dewlish now described, others were, several years ago, found at Littleton and Charlton Marshall near lilandford,'* and as late as last year, by the Rev. ('. W. liingham, at Plush, about five miles to the north-east of Devercll and Dewlish." " No such unis arc in the Stom-head Collection formed by Sir R. C. Iloare, or are known to me as found in any Wiltshire barrow, nor yet in tho.se of Somei-sct or other western counties, lu the British Museum there is a single urn from one of the Seven 15arrt>ws at Lambourn, Rorkshire, which may be classed as of globular type. It has characteristics, however, which serve to distinguish it from the globular lu'us of Dorset- shire. It is of coarser make, and, instead of the small ears, has four large imperforate knobs at the shoulder. I am informed that numerous similarl^'-shaped urns were found at rogtdar intervals in the skirt of the barrow, btit that they were in fragments, having been injured by the phnigh. The Kpecimeu in the Rritish Museum is, perhaps, the only one obtained in a perfect condition." Mrs. Kerr sent a photograph <jf Keys of the l.'Uh centuiy, which had been found in the river Arnn, und which were sui)iiosed to have belongeil to the ToiTC della Fame at Ri.sa, in which the ('onto Cgolino della CherardcHca, lii.s two sons an<l twn nephewH, were imprisoned. The keys were found at a deptii of three metres, at a part of the river facing the Via Sun Frt'ilitino (formerly the Vio dnjH Air.lniii) leading immediately to the '• Hunger Tower." .Mr. (J. I). K. I-'oltTNtM tho>i;,dit scnii! additional iulerest inight be given to the exhibition of the photograph of the Ke3"H supposed to have l)oen tho.'-o which turned the fatal locks upon the miserable Ugolino, by directing the attention of the Meeting to what is jirobably the most » Barrow Diggers, 1839, p. 01, i>. 8, » I'roc. .S..o. Ant..,2ii.l H. v. 112.