Roman villa at Wakefield Forest,[1] and Mrs. Stuart McNaghten the pottery found at Bittern Manor, near Southampton, the Clausentum of the Romans.[2] The central committee of the Institute have, with the consent of the original donors, transferred to our care the curious fragments of Roman sculpture found at Wellow, in Somersetshire, presented to them[3] by the Rev. C. Paul, and the Roman altar found by Dr. Ormerod in a tumulus at Sedbury Park, Monmouthshire.[4]
Of objects of Saxon times, I must allude to Mr. Deck's interesting situla and other relics, found at Streetway Hill, already published in the Journal,[5] and the curious gold earrings found at Soberton in Hampshire, with coins of Edward the Confessor.[6] The beautiful fibula found at Abingdon in Berkshire, and exhibited at Bristol by the President of Trinity, has, I am happy to say, been secured through his means for the National Collection.[7] To the Rev. E. Jarvis we are indebted for the very curious collection of ornaments found in a barrow at Caenby in Lincolnshire.[8]
Among the mediæval objects relating to England must be mentioned the brass pyx found at Exning in Suffolk,[9] and two pitchers of Flemish stoneware, one bearing the arms of Elizabeth, and the date 1594; the other the arms of England and the year 1607. Among the matrices of seals which have been added, are three brass ones, of considerable interest; the seal of John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon, as Admiral of England,[10] that of the town of Droitwich, and the seal of the Alnager of Wiltshire.[11]
Mediæval antiquities have not been neglected; a fine collection of twenty-one Majolica plates, has been purchased, painted by Maestro Giorgio, the best known master of the manufactory of Gubbio, as "well as several enamels of the earlier and later schools of Limoges. Several specimens of Venetian and German glass have been presented by Felix Slade, Esq.
- ↑ Arch. Jour., vol. vii., p. 172.
- ↑ Arch. Jour., vol. viii., p. 205.
- ↑ Arch. Jour., vol. iv., p. 355.
- ↑ Archæologia, xxix., p. 7.
- ↑ Arch. Jour., vol. viii., p. 172. I should mention that we are indebted to the Hon. Richard Neville for several of the missing fragments of the bucket.
- ↑ Arch. Jour., vol. viii., p. 100.
- ↑ This fibula is similar to, but more perfect than, the one engraved in Arch. Jour., vol. iv., p. 252, which was found about the same place.
- ↑ Arch. Jour., vol. vii., p. 36.
- ↑ Vide Proceedings of the Bury Arch. Soc. This pyx was exhibited at the mediæval exhibition in 1850. The National Collection owes this acquisition to the Rev. A. Sharp, of Chippenham.
- ↑ Archæologia, xviii., p. 434.
- ↑ Archæologia, viii., p. 450, where it is wrongly described as of lead.
