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159 quantify of fraG^ments being very considerable. The urns differed consider- ably in dimension ; the S2)ecimens here represented being the most striking varieties. A considerable number of vases, very similar in form, were found some yeai's since, at CniptfM-. in Norfolk. V«^^5;^^^ ^ -vvjtwss'it. FICTILE VASES, FOUND NEAR KINGSTON DPON SOAK. Another example of the curious ornamental collars, to which the name of "beaded tore" has been assigned by Mr. Birch s, has been communi- cated by Mr. Thomas Gray. It was found by a labourer, while cutting turf in Socher Moss, Dumfriesshire, about two miles north of the Border Tower, called Cumlongan Castle. It lay in a small bowl, which measured, in diameter, 6^ in. and 3 in depth : this vessel was formed of thin bronze plate, very skilfully wrought. The collar, although similar in general de- sign and adjustment to the curious specimen in Mr. Deai"den's possession, and the one communicated to the Institute by Mr. Sedgwick, differs from any hitherto found in the details of ornament. The beads are boldly ribbed and grooved longitudinally, each bead measuring about an inch in diameter : between every two beads there is a small flat piece, formed like the wheel 8 Archaeological Journal, vol. iii. p. 32.