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PROCEEDINGS AT MEETINGS OF the purpose of a ferrule. (See wooilcut, half length of original.) The length of this ohjeet is 5 inches, the socket within tapers to a point li inch from the extremity. Near St. Margaret's Church, ahout 500 yards west, and three quarters of a mile from the cross earthwork, the head-stone here represented (sec woodcut) is to be seen in tlie fence of a tillage-field, under an aged yew tree, which leans, through the force of prevalent winds, in the same direc- tion as the grave-slab at its foot. The dimensions are 4 feet by 17 inches. Tradition affirms that a lady was there buried, who came from London infected with the plague and died here. Another tale is, that seven persons were there interred at some remote period. Cross Head-stone, St. Margaret's Park, Herefordshire. Mu. W. B. Dickinson communicated, through Mr. "R. Nightingale, a notice of various ancient reliques lately found in the bed of the river Sherborne at Coventry, during the dredging of the stream. He sent for examination the following oiijects, chiefly from that locality, and now in the possession of Mr. Ilamiiden, of Leamington. A pair of snuxll iron shears or scissors, length nearly five inches, in perfect preservation, the metal retaining its elasticity. Two spoons of pewter, from the Sherborne, ami one of copper, originally perhajis gilt, found near Worcester, Of the former, one nas a bix-sided handle, the finial being an acorn ; the other has a round handle terminating witti a knop ornamented with Hjiiral lines, and the copper spoon has a tcrmiiuition like that of a ilat-topped nuice or a small (•(jlumn. With these were sent three silver coins, one of Ldwanl III., stniek at York, and a ])enny of Henry V. ; several jetons or counter.s, of lead or jiowter, of an early period ; also a small circular plate of brass, with a doiible-lieudud eagle on oik^ side, and underneath is an cseiitcheon charged