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MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES. 319 Museum for the suitable presers'ation of these and other vestiges of antiquity found in that part of Gloucestershire. The remains of Roman art found on the site of CORINIUM are considerable, and a publication is announced (^by subscription), with the view of collecting, at a moderate price, drawings and descriptions of the antiquities of Cirencester. Subscribers' names are received by Messrs. Baily and Jones. Cirencester. Shortly after the conclusion of the Salisbury Meeting, seven other barrows, at Bulford, were e.xamined, under the directions of Mr. Bowyer Lane, and with successful results in all. In three were found human skeletons placed in the contracted position not unusual in similar interments. Another contained a large British urn, iu which were fragments of human bones. In others, amongst burnt human remains, were found part of a bronze spear of fine workmanship, a curious thin stone,' pierced with a hole at either end, supposed to have been worn as a charm, and various other minor objects. The most interesting products, however, of the Bulford barrows are, a British urn, now in the museum of the Hon. R. C. Neville, at Audley End, and the unique vessel of fine Terra Cotta, of which we give a represen- tation. (See woodcut.) In this last were found two bronze pins, and several portions of small beads of a white coral- line substance ; the perforations in the sides of this elegant httle vessel, seem to suggest that it may possibly have been a Thurible, and is probably of Romano - British manufacture. It is deposited in the cabinet of Albert .-t'- -.^ Half the size of the original. W ay, iiSq. Extensive excavations are now in progress in a meadow near St. Michael's Church, at St. Albans ; the foundations of a Roman house have been discovered ; the walls of three apartments, and a good tesselated pavement, '20 feet by 10 feet, have been already laid open. Carefully drawn plans are in preparation, which, with a particular account of these, and the further discoveries, will be laid befoi-e the Meeting of the Institute, on Friday, the 2nd of November next. iilisttllancous Xottas. All lovei-s of Archaeology will we think be obliged to us for calling their attention to a beautifully executed and most intelligent French periodical, entitled " Melanges d'Archeologie, d'Histoire et de Litterature," par Les R. R. Charles Cahier et Arthur Martin. Five numbers have already been issued from the press; each containing many admirable lithographic plates, illuminated where required, and accompanied by memoirs evincing much industry and research, as well as good taste in the selection of the objects described. " La Monographic de la Cathedrale ' A similar stone is engraved in Sir Richard Hoare"s Antient Wiltshire.