Amiens, Archbishop of Rouen, A.D. 1128—1145. Nouv. Tr. de Dipl. iv. 327.)
I shall only add that the monumental statue of Archhishop Gray, in York Minster, represents that prelate as holding a foliated curved-headed pastoral staff. He died in 1255. (See Britton's York Cath., pl. 36.)
Professor Donaldson, at the request of Mr. Yates, offered some observations on the neglected and defaced condition of the royal tombs at Westminster Abbey, to which he had called the special attention of the Institute of British Architects, at their meeting on Feb. 23rd, ult. He stated, that much interest having been aroused in regard to this subject, it was proposed that the members of that body should assemble in the ensuing week at Westminster, to make inspection of the actual state of the Confessor's shrine and the other royal monuments. He hoped that the members of the Archaeological Institute would join them in that inspection.[1]
Antiquities and Works of Art Exhibited
By Mr. Auldjo.—Seven grotesque masks of terra cotta, from the collection of Robert Goff, Esq., found at the pyramids of San Juan, Teotihuacan, in Mexico. A large assemblage of these curious relics is preserved in the Ethnological Room, at the British Museum.—Also, various objects of obsidian, brought by Mr. Goff from the same locality, in 1839, and comprising barbed arrow-heads and small cutting-tools, &c., interesting to the English antiquary from the analogy in form and mode of fabrication which they evince, as compared with the arrow-heads and flint-flakes found in the British Islands.
By Mr. Clutton, of Hartswood, Reigate.—A celt of mottled white silex, of the most simple form, in remarkably perfect preservation, found by Mr. Glutton during the previous month upon the surface of a ploughed field on his estate near Reigate. No traces of ancient occupation have been noticed in the neighbourhood. Hartswood lies, however, adjacent to a supposed ancient line of way, leading from the coast across Tilgate Forest, towards London. Kimberham Bridge, where this road crosses the River Mole, about four miles south of Hartswood, was the scene, according to tradition, of a sanguinary slaughter of the Danes by the united force of the men of Sussex and Surrey. Mr. Franks stated that Mr. Glutton had liberally presented the celt found on his property to the collections in the British Room at the British Museum; and he further observed that only five of these relics of the "stone period" existed in the national series, which could be identified as found in England. The Irish specimens there deposited are very numerous.
By Mr. Hawkins.—Impressions from an inedited coin of Carausius, (third brass) stated to have been found at Bath, and recently purchased for the British Museum. The obverse bears the head of the emperor; the reverse a trophy of arms, with two captives at its foot,—vict germ.
By the Lord Talbot de Malahide.—A remarkable bronze "palstave," found in Ireland, presenting the unusual peculiarity of a loop, or ear, on both
- ↑ The proposed examination of the tombs took place on the following Monday, March 3, when a numerous party of members of both Institutes visited the Abbey, in company with the Professor and Mr. Scott.
