Nos. 12 and 13.-Two views of a pair of bronze tweezers.

No. 14. An oblong four-sided cast brass bell; it had a clapper appended when found, which afterwards fell off. The two sides of the bell are one inch and two-eighths wide at the top, and two inches and three-eighths at the bottom; the two ends are sixeighths of an inch wide at the top, and one inch and seven-eighths at the bottom. It stands upon four feet, and the hole through the handle is five-eighths of an inch in diameter.

No. 15.-The brass clapper belonging to No. 14.

There is another bell exactly like the above-mentioned, except that it is a little smaller and less worn. These bells were found in the black stratum under the hill.

In Montfaucon's work are engravings of Grecian and Roman bells of several shapes, and one exactly corresponding with these in question. In his account of them, he says the Greeks and Romans had sometimes small bells at their doors; that such bells were often used for other purposes; that they were, for instance, hung to the necks of horses, oxen, and sheep; that they were used, according to Lucian, in houses, to call up the inmates in the morning; that those persons who went round the fortifications of the towns carried them; and that they were put at the doors of temples.

The bell in question is probably either Roman, Roman-British, or Anglo-Saxon.

A four-sided bell was found in the bog of Glenade, in the county of Leitrimf.

A small Roman cone-shaped bronze bell, standing on four feet, was found at Silchester. It is engraved in the " Journal of the Archæological Institute."

There is, in the British Museum, a very interesting collection of small bronze cone-shaped bells of various sizes, from Nimrúd, presented by Mr. Layard in 1851.

* Vol. iii., Part I., page 106.

+ See "Archæologia," Vol. xxvii., p. 400.

Vol. viii., p. 245. Also, see their "Proceedings at Norwich," p. 30, relative to bells of the Anglo-Saxon and early Irish period.

The custom of hanging bells on horses is alluded to by the Prophet Zechariah*.

No. 16.-An old brass key, with two small niches in the ward, and a pipe holet.

No. 17.-A brass pin, an inch and a half long, and the eighth of an inch thick, with a whitish bead head, rather decayed; lozengeshaped indents on the upper half of the pin, and a double point.

No. 18.-A large bead of common, darkish glass, two inches and five-eighths round, and the hole three-eighths of an inch in diameter.

Likewise, a black touchstone, with a ring; a brass seal, engraved with a lion rampant; fragments of a plain amber ring; a brass medal, with the story of Cephalus and Procris on it; old spades, &c. These spades and other relics which appear to be the most modern, Mr. Eaton says, were found at or near the top of the hill.

The Castle Hill evidently underwent considerable alterations from time to time, according to the modes of warfare of the different ages; and the sandstone foundations which were discovered in or near the base, no doubt were of various periods.

Some part of the top of the hill may have been made out of the excavated mass of sand and gravel, upon building the crypt of the Cathedral, or some other ecclesiastical edifice; and I am rather strengthened in this conjecture by a diamond-shaped piece of rubycoloured glass having been found in the hill.

As the urn or jug, No. 2, was discovered about a third of the way up the hill, and about sixteen or eighteen feet deep, from the side horizontally towards the centre, this goes to prove that part of the mound in question was made by the later Romans, unless we can believe that the urn or jug was thrown up by the Saxons, Danes, or Normans, along with the original surface, in the manner before suggested.

See Chap. xiv. v. 20, and Dr. Adam Clarke's commentary thereon.

It is difficult to ascertain the age of keys, as those of the Roman and later times very much correspond.

In the former edition I gave an account of a brass locket, or medal, found there. I have since discovered that it is of a comparatively modern date.