The Early Christian ivory diptych which, by the permission of the owner, Mr. Andrews, it is my privilege to bring before the Society is almost entirely unknown. I have called it ‘undescribed’, and I might almost have called it ‘unpublished’. But some twenty years ago a rather inadequate photographic reproduction of it did appear in the first volume of Professor Venturi's invaluable Storia dell' Arte Italiana. Since that date a number of archaeologists have tried to get a sight of the diptych, but in vain. And the few brief notices of it that have been published by Professor Goldschmidt, Dom Leclercq, and others, have been based entirely on the small and not very clear half-tone block given without comment by Professor Venturi.

South Kyme is a village in the Kesteven division of Lincolnshire, seven miles E.N.E. of Sleaford and eighteen miles south-east of Lincoln. The church is part of the south aisle and nave of a priory of Austin Canons founded before 1169. In the course of the erection of the modern chancel, some years ago, six carved stones were dug up on the site and were subsequently built into the structure of the north wall on the inside face of it. These stones are the subject of the present note, and the photograph and drawing made for me by Mr. P. J. Kipps give all the information to be obtained by an inspection of the stones themselves, until such time as they may be taken from the wall and their reverse sides examined.

In our Proceedings xvi, 174, is an illustration of a bronze weight found at Grove Ferry, near Fordwich, Kent, and exhibited by Col. Copeland, who subsequently presented it to the British Museum. There is a description by bur present President, with references to other weights from Kentish graves of the sixth century, which were later studied by Mr. Fred. Seebohm; but it has recently been re-weighed, and its value found to be 576 troy (or barley) grains, not 575 grains. The difference is trifling, but enough to emphasize the fact that it is exactly one-tenth of the troy pound. On each face are 22 impressions of the same stamp, arranged in different ways, and therefore in this case probably ornamental. The decimal division of the pound is found in Republican Rome, but there the pound was 5760 and the ounce 576 wheat grains, four of which are equivalent to three barley or troy grains. However, I can find no evidence that the above hint has ever been taken in order to explain the weight-system of our pagan forefathers in England. For this purpose let it be supposed that the troy pound, which is not named before the fifteenth century, was divided in two ways. In the tables G stands for grammes of 154 grains, and an asterisk distinguishes weights that exactly agree with the standard.

In the year 1901 Sir Norman Lockyer made some instrumental observations at Stonehenge with a view to determining the angle of obliquity of the ecliptic which would cause midsummer sunrise to take place at a point on the horizon on the line of the axis of the structure.

For some time past Mr. J. E. Sainty, of Norwich, has subjected the cliffs and the foreshore of the north-east coast of Norfolk to examination, with a view to finding there examples of flint implements. His researches, conducted with much care, have resulted in the finding of many interesting specimens, and, at his request, I now place on record a discovery of considerable importance.

Both finds belong to the latest portion of the Irish Bronze Age, Montelius's fifth period (1150-800 B.C.). The first was recently acquired by the Royal Irish Academy. The circumstances of its discovery are obscure; no more definite information being obtainable than that the objects were dug up near an old ruined castle in co. Westmeath about the month of January, 1922. It includes a bronze socketed celt, and twenty-four complete and one imperfect cast bronze rings. The objects are well covered with an agreeable grey-green patina, with the exception of one ring which was scraped clean, presumably to see of what metal it was composed. The looped axe-head is of characteristic Irish type with oval mouth and broad cutting edge. A little below the mouth it is ornamented with a raised band, the mouth being similarly encircled. The largest ring, which has an external diameter of 4.3 inches, is hollow; the remainder have been cast solid. The illustration (pi. XIII) will dispense with a detailed description of the various rings.

By the kindness of Captain Carlson, of Clifton, I have been able to make drawings of a pair of celts which came into his possession soon after I had initiated him into the mysteries of prehistoric flint implements. The smaller, and in my opinion undoubtedly the older, of the two, is ground and polished at the cutting-end; and the ground surface becomes narrower as it extends along the middle of each face for the greater part of the length (fig. I).