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ARCHAEOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE. were found remains of a human skeleton. No decisive evidence has been brought to shew at what period the Salma in this part of England were first known; they were granted to the church of Worcester, A.D. 816, by Kenulph, king of Mercia. Through the adjoining parish of Dodei-hill (Duderhull, t. Conqu.) the upper salt-way is supposed to have passed, and its course may, possibly, be marked by the local names Ridgeway Field, Upper Street and Upper Street Sling, Sec, in that parish. The urn re- sembles, in form, one found with Roman remains near Bagshot*^. The fictile vessel here represented, apparently of late Roman fabric, was lately discovered in digging the founda- tions of a cottage at Holton, in Oxford- shire, on the property of Mrs. Biscoe, in whose possession it now is. The site on which it was found afforded proof that the spot had been occupied by a succession of edifices from a remote period down to the sixteenth century, some tiles of that date being found in the surface above the place of deposit of the urn. The shape of this object is not uncommon, and many similar examples are preserved in the museum at York. Holton is dis- tant about two miles from the Roman villa Homan vase, kuud at Hoi.on at Wheatley, described in the second volume of the Archaeological Journal. SAXON, OR EARLY NORMAN PERIOD. Mr. Hawkins, through M. Pfister, communicated a curious horn-purse of the Carlovingian age, now in his possession. In the month of March, 1811, some workmen emploj^ed in breaking stones for building materials, from a rock on which are situated the ruins of the castle of Griineck, near the small town of Ilanz, in Switzerland, discovered under a stone two horns of re- markable shape, of one of which a representation is annexed. Both were filled with denarii, struck at different times during a period of forty-one years, viz. from A.D. 875 to 916. The Emperor Louis II. ^ . . . A.D. 875 Carloman .... 878—880 Charles III. (as emperor) . . . 880—888 Lambert .... 892—898 Berengarius (as king) . . . 888 — 916 This vessel is formed of the horn of an elk or large stag. The aper- tures at each end were closed with silver, probably ornamented in the same style as the horn ; the third, opening at the top, had a silver lid. M. Pfister remarked that even supposing it had been found empty there would l)e little difhculty in assigning this interesting object to the period to which it belongs, the design carved upon it being a satisfactory mark of its early date. Like others of similar character, this horn may be considered •^ Artha>ol. vii. i)l. xvi.