No. of Objects. 104 All are formed of rolled thin sheet metal and have a circular eye in a flattened and pointed head. 4 Objects made of wire, flat on one side and somewhat raised on the other, about 2 inches long, and of varying forms; two others flat; they are all of uncertain use. 1 Clapper of a handbell. 1 Winder for thread or other fibre, shaped like the rowel of a spur, but several of the spikes are gone. 38 Attachments originally riveted to girdles or smaller straps of leather for securing the dress; they comprise various types of buckles, hasps, tags and ornaments. One stud retains a fragment of leather. 9 Miscellaneous fragments, one of a triangular needle, much resembling those of steel used by sail-makers of the present day. 2 IRON OR STEEL.-Girdle-hasp and portion of a large buckle. 1 Flat Ring or washer, 3 in. diameter. 1 Prych or goad of a Norman spur. 1 LEAD OR PEWTER.-Sling Pellet of globular form. 1 Net-sinker (?) round, perforated, and with radiated pattern. 1 Brooch in pewter, of lozenge shape, 11⁄2 in. long, with tri foliate ornament at the angles, the acus fixed upon a short transverse bar in the upper part of the open centre. 1 Second Brooch in pewter, of similar shape, slightly dif fering in size and pattern. 1 Wheel-shaped Brooch in pewter. Originally this must have been two inches in diameter, and composed alternately of spoke-like divisions and concentric circles or rings, the latter covered by the dot and annulet ornament. 9 Brooches, more or less imperfect, all unfortunately being minus the acus or pin. One is ring-shaped, and though plain on one half (side) is ornamented upon the other No. of Objects. 175 by a pretty spiral and digitated groove; this example, the second of its type which has occurred, is of pewter, and 1 inch diameter. The remainder are fragments of ornaments more elaborately designed, but of too fragile a nature for such designs, except one 2 inches long, and originally the brooch would have been about the same diameter. This bears letters incuse (as though stamped from an impression in metal of some seal), viz., ALSVNO &c., but the meaning of this fragment of an inscription I will not venture to speculate upon. Possibly some list of medieval devices and mottoes may elucidate the matter. 2 Hasps-one, only two-fifths of an inch diameter. It is circular, and provided with a central bar, the whole ornamented with raised dots or pellets. 1 Buckle (or hasp), three-fifths of an inch diameter. 6 Studs-two plain, spade-shaped and round; three have floral forms; the sixth bears the character of a Gothic Text m, fig. 6, and may possibly prove to be a relic of one of the English Primers of medieval times, stone moulds for the casting of which yet exist, as recorded in the Messrs. Chambers's admirable "Book of Days," vol. I, p. 47, in the possession of Sir George Musgrave, of Eden Hall, Westmoreland. These cast leaden plates. with raised letters, for "teaching the young idea," were the precursors of the Horn-books, the primers of the 16th and 17th centuries. 1 Frame of window-pane, of triangular form, probably from one of the last tenanted houses of ancient Meols. 1 Handle of spoon with acorn head. 5 Key-eylet and four miscellaneous objects. 2 LEATHER.-Shoe Soles, "right" and "left" being very much produced, the toe being very sharply pointed, and the portion below the instep very confined. Their shape No. of Objects. 193 resembles that of many found in an ancient mediaval midden, belonging probably to one of the last of the houses of Ancient Meols. Length 11 inches; extreme breadth across the toes 3 inches, but when worn would be a little in excess of present size, the leather having shrunk to some extent, but now protected by the application of oil. 1 BONE.-Object nearly an inch and a quarter long, and averaging half an inch in diameter, perforated longitudinally, and cut, not sawn from the bone. It has probably been a rude bead formed to amuse a child. 2 STONE.-Fragments of Querns. One of the "mule" or flat understones has been made of the coarse rag stone or conglomerate, hard as granite and full of small pebbles of white quartz; the other is part of a "rider," and retaining one of the holes by which this was revolved in grinding. 1 Roofing Sandstone, with pinhole, from one of the houses of Ancient Meols. 1 Tombstone, 11 or 12 century, found on Hilbre Island, September, 1864. For description and illustration, vide Transactions, vol. V, new series, p. 271. 1 TERRA COTTA.-Portion of a unique Equestrian Figure of light-coloured clay, partially covered with a yellowish green or olivaceous glaze. (Pl. IV.) The fragment of this remarkable crock, however, is too small to give an idea of the complete vessel, which must be left to the imagination, after comparison with the very few examples, not of similar design, but of the same class known, for this is but the fourth placed on record. The first is illustrated in the fourth volume of the Archeological Journal, p. 79, and though evidently of a ruder make, and possibly of somewhat earlier date, it yet possesses some characteristics common to both; and I quote the |