sion of Mr. Silvester, of Springhead, and figs. 3 and 5, in the collection of Mr. W. Meyrick, of 39, Eastbourne-Terrace. Hyde-Park. To these, by the courtesy of Mr. Stevenson and Mr. Meyrick, I am now able to add the following :—fig. 6, an urn in black pottery, eight and a-half inches in height.

three parts filled with burnt human bones; fig. 7, a vessel in pale clay, seven and a-half inches high; fig. 8, a rudely formed urn, six inches high, sun baked, and slightly scored on the side. Mr. Meyrick has also another variety of spear-head, and two bosses of shields, but slightly differing from that shewn in the above cut, one of which is remarkable in exhibiting perforations apparently from spear thrusts, and clearly made before it was deposited in the earth. The next object, shewn in two views, fig. 9, is like those which have been engraved in Douglas's Nenia Britannica, as bow braces.

Our researches at Ozengal have enabled us to ascertain that this able antiquary, whose diligence, care, and fidelity, cannot be too highly commended, has been mistaken in thus naming these relics, and an opportunity presented itself to allow correction of the error, and at the same time to demonstrate how very important it is, in investigations of this kind, to note the positions of things in situ before they become dissociated from connecting facts, which often can alone determine their original use.

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In a grave in the Ozengal cemetery a boss of a shield lay upon the breast of a skeleton; having been carefully removed, immediately beneath it, the hollow side uppermost, was what Douglas had termed a bow-brace, but which, from its peculiar situation, was palpably the handle of the shield or target. In the present example, as in those in the collection of Mr. Rolfe, traces of the string which bound it to wood are still apparent. The correction of this error of the author of the Nenia is the more satisfactory, as the bow does not appear either from remains, or from historical notices, to have been a common weapon with the early Anglo-Saxons. "The sword shewn in the above cut (fig. 10) is somewhat different from the varieties hitherto found, which in general are upwards of thirty inches in length: this is only twentyone and a quarter inches, and is very slightly curved at the top, like the knives so frequently found in Saxon graves. It bears traces of a wooden sheath and handle, and a small portion of a bronze fastening remains at the hilt.

No apology, it is hoped, need be offered for placing this discovery on record; for, although it has not been made under the most advantageous circumstances, the objects themselves furnish suggestions which will not be lost upon the attentive antiquary. The ornamented pottery in the first cut, which is so rudely made that by some it was conceived to be of very early date, was found by the side of the iron umbo and spear, and may from that fact be pronounced of late fabric; the pattern, moreover, accords with similar designs on specimens obtained from other undoubted Saxon burial places, and thus may assist in appropriating more questionable examples presented without weapons and other objects which admit of immediate classification. The Roman vases found with, or near the Saxon remains, furnish another to the many instances already recorded of the Saxons resorting to localities which had been previously used for like purposes by the Romans; and the presence of Saxon urns in graves which contained skeletons indicates the partial adop

tion of usages which custom had stamped as sacred, after those usages had become superseded by others of a totally different character.

"Having suggested to Mr. Meyrick an examination of the wood still attached to the weapons in his possession, he very kindly submitted it to professor Lindley, who pronounces that adhering to the sword to be pine, and that in the groove of the spear-head, ash. The professor's opinion is confirmed by that of Mr. Girdwood; and it is an interesting fact that it is in accordance with the known practice of our AngloSaxon forefathers. The spear-shaft was so universally made of ash (asc), that in the old Anglo-Saxon poetry the word ash was constantly used as synonymous with spear. Thus, Beowulf, line 3535 :— Swá ic Hring-Dena hund missera

weold under wolcnum, and híg wigge be-leác

manegum mægþa

geond pisne middan-geard,

ascum and ecgum.

Thus I the Hiring-Danes
for many a year

governed under heaven
and secured them with war

from many tribes

throughout this earth,

with spears (ash) and swords.

In another passage in Beowulf, 1. 654, the javelins or spears (gáras) are described as having shafts of grey ash wood:

"In Cadmon, the term asc-berend, or spear carrier, is applied to a soldier. In the fragment of the poetical History of Judith, we have asc-plega, the play or game of spears (or of ash) as a poetic term for a battle. So we have œsc-bora, a spear-bearer; and in Codex Exoniensis, asc-stede, a place where ash spears are used, a field of battle.

"It should be stated, that the field in which these remains were found, is called "Church-field ", a name by which, as has been remarked on a former occasion, the sites of many spots fertile in antiquities, are known.

C. ROACH SMITH.

FINIS.

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