210 PROCEEDIXGS AT MEETINGS OF the bronze weapons were probably vestiges. If this were so, this seal might seem to be associated with the remains of the Danish period. Lord Talbot remarked that Mr. Yates had recently brought before the Society some singular relics of a minor description, rollers of clay, to which the name of " pipes " had been assigned, and which were supposed to have served in the manufacture of false hair. He had ascertained that large quantities of these objects had been found ia Irelend, precisely identical in form, but rather smaller than those which had been submitted to the Institute and to the Society of Antiquaries.^ In the neighbourhood of Dublin, especially, they had been discovered in sucb abundance, that it might be supposed there had been a manufactory of them at the spot. Mr. Octavius Mougax rose to express the gratification, in which he felt assured the meeting must heartily participate, caused by the address of their noble President, and the kind liberality with which he had augmented the rapidly advancing collections in their library. He proposed a vote of acknowledgment, to which the meeting gave most cordial assent. The Pkesidext stated, in reply to an inquiry, that a variety of the porcelain seals exists with the base oval instead of a cube. The specimens hitherto known are now in the possession of the Duke of Northumberland. They were not accompanied by any tradition of discovery in Ireland, as in most other cases, but were met with in an extensive collection of Oriental porcelain, which had remained, he was assured, for upwards of two centuries in the possession of a family in Ireland. Mr. Birch communicated the addition of a fresh example to the list of " Oculists' Stamps," several of which had been noticed in the Journal (vol. vi., p. 354). The attention of antiquaries in England had recently been called to this class of inscribed Roman remains, through the able Dissertations of Professor Simpson, of Edinburgh. The inedited specimen, of which impressions were produced, had been found amongst the Collections of the late Rev. TratFord Leigh. He had been unable to discover the place where it was found. The collyrium indicated upon it is the Stactum, or liquid medicament to be dropped into the eye.-* Mr. Edward Richardsox reported the discovery of some medieval remains of the Abbey Church of Vaudey, or de Valle Dei, in Grimsthorp Park, Lincolnshire. — " Twenty years since, in making a private road through Swinstead, some fragments of moulded stones were discovered. Nothing, however, was then further investiirated. Last autumn, Swinstead Church being under repair, the incumbent received permission from the noble proprietor of Grimsthorp to use any old stone from the same spot. Gradually a broad and massive base presented itself, some feet below the present surface ; it presented the vestige of a rich cluster of columns, 11 ft. in diameter. This was carefully cleaned, and covered over during the winter. A few weeks since, the Rev. Wm. Emmerson Chapman, incumbent of Edenham, adjoining Grimsthorp, received the permission of Lord Willoughby de Eresby to excavate further, and two more of the central bases have been brought to light, also part of a large Norman capital, some plain tile pavement, and several pieces of thick glass, both plain and decorated, of a deep tone of colour. ^
- ' The workmanship and state of preservation of these broad bases is
" Archaeol. Journ. vol. vi. p. 3.08. •^ Monthly Medical Journal, January and March, 1851.
