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PKOCEEDIXGS AT MEETINGS OP essential value. Amongst the casts of seals, likewise — although that suhject of research had recently heen almost exhausted by the successful labours of ^Ir. Laing — he had noticed several highly valuable examples/ Antiquities anti "mavl^^ of 9[rt evljiiittctr. By the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. — Drawings representing two singular bronze relics, recently added to their Museum. One of these is a small cutting instrument, found at Wicken, Cambridgeshire, in the fen- land. It appears to bear some resemblance to the bronze falx, found in Ireland, of which a specimen has been i-epresented in the Joxirnal (vol. ii., p. 186) ; the sharp edge is in this instance on the outside curve oidy. The length of the blade, independently of the socket, is about 4 in. This type does not appear to have been noticed, as found in England. The other object is a bronze head of a mace, strongly spiked, of the same class of remains as that found in Wiltshire (Archaeol. Journal, vol. vi., p. 411); but in this specimen the socket is of greater length, and the spikes arc pyra- midal, and more massive. Length, 2 in., diameter of spiked head 2:1 in. Tlie Cambridge Society had already acquired a curious dentated bronze ring, which may be compared with these mace-heads ; it has been repre- sented in the Journal{yo. vi., p. 181). IJronzL' Iinpleiiient in the Museum of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. By Mr. Jabez Allies, F.S.A. — Some portions of Anglo-Roman tile, found with coins of Severus and Gallionus, and other remains, at Sidbury Place, near Worcester, in 1834, when a square chamber was brought to light, supposed to have been a hypocaust. Of the vestiges of Roman occu- pation at Worcester, Mr. Allies will give a detailed account in the forth- coming enlarged edition of his " Antiquities and Folk-lore of Worcester- shire."^ The fragments exhibited presented some unusual peculiarities of fabrication, some of these tiles having been deeply grooved, in a manner ■• Mr. Laing has recently completed a very interesting "Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient S('otlish Seals," with numerous illustrations. A limited number are printed for sale, and copies of this beautiful volume may be obtained by application to the author, 2.5, Clyde Street, Edinburgh. •'■ Mr. O'Doiiovan speaks of the sm.all bronze falx as of frequent occurrence in Ireland. He gives a figure of a double-edged e.ani])le, length G in. — Dublin Penny Jour- nal, vol. i. p. loa. See another bronze specimen, found in Ireland, Dublin Penny Journ.al, vol. ii. p. 20; and one found, at Rennes. Toulmouche, Histoire Archeologique de ro])oque (iallo- Romaine de Rennes. PI. 3. ' Subscribers are requested to send their names to the author, .'51, Halliford Street, Islington, or Mr. Grainger, Worcester.