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192 PEOCEEDINGS AT MEETINGS OF character to the urns found in England ; they are of superior workman- ship, in form and ornament. Several specimens are preserved in the museum of the R. I. Academy. Mr. Wakeman has given one of these in his useful " Hand-book of Irish Antiquities ; " it was found in a cromlech in the Phoenix Park; also, two other urns, of very beautiful form (pp. 5, 155.) Dr. Molyneux gave one, found at Knowth, co. Meath, in his " Essay on Danish Mounts ; " the exterior was ribbed horizontally, and on either side were the sun, or star, within a crescent. Another, curiously impressed, is given in Harris's edition of Ware's work ; it was found at Powerscourt, CO. Wicklow. Three urns, most elaborately ornamented, are given in the "Dublin Penny Journal," vol. i.,p. 108; they were found, with nine others, in a cairn at Mount Stewart, co. Down. A very remarkable speci- men, found in a cairn at Killucken, co. Tyrone, is given in the Journal of the Archaeological Association, vol. i., p. 244 ; it contained calcined bones, and a smaller vessel, curiously formed with triangular perforations, possibly for burning perfumes. Mr. Akerman has included this urn in his series of the Celtic period. Archaeological Index, pi. ii., fig. 51. The curious urn, of which, by Mr. Hoare's idndness, a representation is given, according to one statement, was filled with burned bones or ashes ; but he had subsequently been assured on very good authority, that when found it was empty, or contained merely some of the clay of the surrounding soil. It has, indeed, Mr. Hoare observes, been questioned whether any certain evidence can be adduced that cremation was used by the ancient inhabitants of Ireland, that country not having been visited by the Romans; but it is by no means certain that the introduction of the practice into the British Islands is to be attributed to that people ; and, in the report given of the cairn above mentioned, at Killucken, it is distinctly asserted that the urns were inverted, and contained calcined human bones with charred wood. The Hon. Richaed C. Neville communicated a memoir on Roman remains, and the foundations of an octagonal structure, excavated under his directions, at Weycock, on the estates of Lord Braybrooke, in Bejk- shire. He exhibited some interesting coins and relics of the Roman age found at that place. These notices are given at length in the present number of the Journal. The Rev. William Gunner, local secretary for Hampshire, sent the following report of recent discoveries in that county : — " A very interesting piece of sculpture has been brought to light in the repairs which have just been commenced in the church of Stoke Charity, about six miles north of Winchester. It was discovered in the wall, between the respond of the chancel arch, and the south wall of the church, in a recess which apparently had been made to receive it, with a view to its concealment, and it was hidden by some flint masonry built up before it, against which the pulpit had been placed. From the extreme roughness of the recess in which it was found, I have no doubt that it was made solely with the object of concealing the sculpture, and that it was not in the original site. It represents a bishop celebrating mass, standing before ■^ In the tumulus opened near Mullingar, found deposited in a cist, showing no sign of in 1748, as described by the Bishop of Meath, cremation. With the bones was an urn of Archaeologia, vol. ii., p. .S2, a skeleton was yellow clay.