the Lutheran church; John Laughton, librarian of Trinity; James Upton; Richard Mead; William Sherlock; John Law of Lauriston; John Asgill; Ezekiel Spanheim; William Lloyd, bishop of Worcester; Thomas Irson, the Maskelyne of the day, who contrived a wooden head that would answer questions put to it in any language; the custom of drinking healths, d propos of a scholion προπίνω σοι τῆς θεοτόκου Μαρίας; hour-glasses in pulpits; men employed as ladies' maids, a fashion introduced by 'that disgrace of our age, Christina of Sweden'; Swiss porters; pilgrims to the Holy Land tattooed with the Holy Sepulchre, the crucifix, etc.; dumb-bells used by leapers in Scotland; magical virtue ascribed to the fat of bodies hung on the gallows; a butterfly giving signs of life seven days after losing its head." (See Communications, Vol. V, No. XI.)

Mr Griffith exhibited a series of rude pottery rings of two distinct types, found near the river at Harston and Barrington, which appeared to belong to the Roman period, and which he suggested might have been intended for sinking nets. He compared them with rings of the same two types found in the Swiss Lake-Dwellings, which have been supposed to be stands for round-bottomed vessels: of these rings Mr Lewis exhibited four, which he had brought with other pottery fished up from the Lakes of Bienne and Neuchâtel.

Mr Jenkinson gave some account of the further discoveries made at Girton in September last. The traces of the Roman period had culminated in a rubbish-pit, which contained below broken urns of Roman fabric several fragments of sculpture in oolite. He exhibited a lion's head1, about the size of life, which showed good work, and which in spite of pieces knocked off the nose still looked not unimposing; and the torso of a military figure that had stood about four feet high; the broad collar, the belt, the close-fitting coat, apparently of metal, and a short kilt-like garment peeping from under it were clearly visible: one arm had been raised.

Large numbers of Saxon urns had continued to occur, a diagram showing upwards of seventy in an area 50 feet square. One had been made with a square piece of thick glass in the bottom, for what purpose was not known: a similar one, but smaller, had been procured from Haslingfield by Mr Walter K. Foster. The glass when looked through had a granular appearance, which might be due to the changes of temperature it would have to undergo when the urn was being baked and again when the hot ashes were placed in contact with it. There was nothing remarkable in the position or contents of this urn, which had lost all the upper portion.

1 Figured at p. 40 in the second edition of Professor Babington's Ancient Cambridgeshire, Cambridge, 1883. On p. 39 of the same work are shown the glass vessels found in two Roman graves at Girton (Abstract of Proceedings, 1880-81, p. xxi); but the vase shown on p. 38 came from Gravel Hill Farm and is the one mentioned on p. 36.

This was also the case with another especially interesting urn, upon which appeared the ubiquitous swastika stamped in plain cup-shaped punchmarks on the bottom externally: the singular position assigned to this mark, which had otherwise not been observed among the forms of ornamentation occurring on this pottery, seemed to show that it had some special significance1.

Three spindle-whorls had been found, one of stone and two of bone; two faceted crystal beads, shivered in the fire; and an implement of bone, consisting of two narrow pieces an inch and a half long, held parallel and six inches apart by a broad brace behind and two narrow ones in front, rigidity being secured by two rivets at either end. The two pieces first mentioned had each two deep notches on their inner edge, the lower of which notches was continuous in outline with a shallow depression cut in the edge of the braces. More beads and brooches had been found; and also a bronze basin3, of the usual Saxon type, in company with a bronze-hooped pail: these lay on either side of a body.

The cemetery appeared now to have been completely explored; and, although a certain poverty was observable among the objects found as compared with those from graves at Barrington and other places in the county, what there was had been investigated under unusually favourable circumstances. Had it been necessary to carry away at the time all that was found, a comparatively small number of these interesting urns would have survived the journey.

It was impossible and undesirable to enumerate in detail the discoveries and the observations that had been made; but from the finding of the first grave on the 25th of March, 1881, a minute diary had been kept, in which the bearings of every grave were recorded, as well as the position of everything it contained; and as such a diary might be interesting and valuable for comparison with the results of excavations in similar cemeteries elsewhere, it would probably sooner or later be printed in full.

1 There is in the Museum at Bury St Edmunds a large Saxon urn from Redgrave, of coarse workmanship; below the usual horizontal lines on the shoulder are five large equidistant bosses, between each of which are three swastikas in a horizontal row. They are about half an inch in diameter, remarkably larger than the other punch-marks, which are of two kinds, one plain cup-shaped, the other a circular depression containing a cross in relief.

2 Pronounced by Mr A. W. Franks to be a comb-case; a similar one with the comb in it is exhibited in the new Anglo-Saxon room at the British Museum (1883).

3 When this basin was lifted afterwards, a layer of bracken fern, on which it had been laid, was clearly visible, some of the fronds having been preserved by the superincumbent metal. A photograph was taken, but was not very successful.

May 22, 1882. Forty-second Annual General Meeting. The President (Rev. R. Burn) in the chair.

The following officers were elected for the ensuing year:

President:-Rev. R. Burn, M.A.

Vice-President :—Rev. H. R. Luard, D.D.
Treasurer:-W. M. Fawcett, Esq., M.A.
Secretary:-Rev. S. S. Lewis, M.A.

The following were elected Honorary Members:

M. Alexandre Bertrand, Keeper of the Museum at St Germain.
Dr Emil Hübner, Professor of Archaeology at Berlin.
Commendatore G. B. de Rossi, Rome.

The Annual Report mentioned the excursions that had been organized since last October to Royston, Walden and St Ives, and enumerated several volumes recently issued or far advanced towards publication. Since last October fifty-nine new members had been elected into the Society, which had now 274 names on its roll. Allusion was made to recent discoveries of pottery, glass and other antiquities at Girton, and Great Chesterford, and especially of bronze implements' at Wilburton.

Mr Lewis read a paper by Mr C. W. King upon an antique cameo of agate-onyx (of which a cast was exhibited) measuring 8 in. × 7 in.: the bust engraved upon it was identified by the flowing and massy curls, by the aegis, and especially by the prominent forehead wreathed with chestnut-leaves, as Jupiter of Dodona, under which type it was added that a portrait of the emperor Antoninus Pius may possibly be adumbrated. (See Communications, Vol. V, No. XII.)

Dr Bryan Walker exhibited a Terrier of Landbeach drawn up in 1549 by order of Matthew Parker, who was then Master of Benet College and Rector of Landbeach.

1 A paper on these implements was read to the Society of Antiquaries by Dr J. Evans (20 April, 1882) and will be published in the Archaeologia.

Mr Jenkinson exhibited two Roman rings from Chesterford. One of these (fig. 1) was of brass; and the device, a mask, was embossed upon a thin plate of metal, which had been soldered to the ring. The other

(fig. 2) was of iron, and exhibited in two places a simple form of decoration; the metal being worked to resemble two ends meeting, one of which is forked to receive the other which tapers, and a few transverse lines convey the appearance of binding or lashing.

From a rubbish-pit recently encountered by the gravel-diggers several pieces of pottery were shown as specially interesting in form. A Samian saucer, having an upright inner rim and in addition to this another rim or horizontal ledge projecting outwards, was the first complete specimen of the kind that had been obtained; and it was suggested that the outer rim was original to the design, the inner one being a development to increase the capacity. The potter's mark was CONSTAS. The bottom of a Samian saucer was also shown, which, after the upper part was gone, had had the fractured edges ground down, apparently to be inverted and used as a small cup. It showed a potter's name apparently unpublished, SATINVS. The only other vessel worthy of notice was of shining black ware, about six inches high. The upper part was concave in outline: there was a sharp angle between this curve and a short horizontal line inwards, from which the lower part springs with a convex outline to the base. As is usually the case in this type, the thinness of the lower part was remarkable when compared with the solidity of the upper part.

The rubbish-pit which furnished these objects had not yet been worked out, but its contents were singular. Three human skeletons occurred, whose position proved them to belong to the Roman time. The brass ring above described lay close to the head of one of them. A layer of burnt wood lined the whole width of the pit at a low level; and the fragments of an amphora formed an adjacent layer almost as extensive.

II. LIST OF COUNCIL ELECTED MAY 22, 1882.

[Those marked * continue members of Council from last year.]

President.

Rev. ROBERT BURN, M.A., Trinity College, Trinity Praelector in Roman Literature and Archaeology.

Vice-Presidents.

JOHN WILLIS CLARK, Esq., M.A., Trinity College, Superintendent of the Museums of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy.

Rev. WALTER WILLIAM SKEAT, M.A., Christ's College, Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon.

Rev. HENRY RICHARDS LUARD, D.D., Trinity College, University Registrary.

Treasurer.

WILLIAM MILNER FAWCETT, Esq., M.A., F.S.A., Jesus College.

Secretary, and Librarian.

Rev. SAMUEL SAVAGE LEWIS, M.A., F.S.A., Corpus Christi College. Ordinary Members of Council.

*JOHN EBENEZER FOSTER, Esq., M.A., Trinity College.

*ALFRED PAGET HUMPHRY, Esq., M.A., Trinity College, Esquire Bedell.

*GEORGE MACKENZIE BACON, Esq., M.A., M.D.

*CHARLES CARDALE BABINGTON, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., St John's College, Professor of Botany.

*FREDERICK WHITTING, Esq., M.A., King's College.

*GEORGE MURRAY HUMPHRY, Esq., M.D., F.R.S., Downing College, Professor of Anatomy.

*THOMAS MCKENNY HUGHES, Esq., M.A., F.S.A., Trinity College, Woodwardian Professor of Geology.

*FRANCIS JOHN HENRY JENKINSON, Esq., M.A., Trinity College.
Rev. BRYAN WALKER, M.A., LL.D., Corpus Christi College.
HENRY BRADSHAW, Esq., M.A., King's College, University Librarian.
FREDERICK CHARLES WACE, Esq., M.A., St John's College, Esquire
Bedell.

CECIL BENDALL, Esq., M.A., Gonville and Caius College.

Curator.

F. J. H. JENKINSON, Esq., M.A., Trinity College.

Excursion Secretary.

N. C. HARDCASTLE, Esq., B.A., Downing College.

Auditors.

F. C. WACE, Esq., M.A.

SWANN HURRELL, Esq.