ornament among the early Saxons. All theſe cups are of glaſs; they are ſo formed that it is evident they could not ſtand upright, ſo that it was neceſſary to empty them at a draught. This characteriſtic of the old drinking-cups is ſaid to have given riſe to the modern name of tumblers.
That theſe glaſs drinking-cups—or, if we like to uſe the term, theſe glaſſes were implements peculiar to the Germanic race to which the Saxons belonged, and not derived from the Romans, we have corroborative evidence in diſcoveries made on the Continent. I will only take An image should appear at this position in the text.No. 2. Germano-Saxon Drinking Glaſſes. examples from ſome graves of the ſame early period, diſcovered at Selzen, in Rhenith Heſſe, an intereſting account of which was publiſhed at Maintz, in 1848, by the brothers W. and L. Lindenſchmit. In theſe graves ſeveral drinking-cups were found, alſo of glaſs, and reſembling in character the two middle figures in our cut, No. 1. Three ſpecimens are given in the cut No. 2.In our cut, No. 5, (ſee page 8), is one of the cup-ſhaped glaſſes, alſo found in theſe Heſſian graves, which cloſely reſembles that given in the cut No. 1. None of the cups of the champagne-glaſs form, like thoſe found in England, occur in theſe foreign barrows.
We ſhall find alſo that the pottery of the later Anglo-Saxon period preſented a mixture of forms, partly derived from thoſe which had belonged to the Saxon race in their primitive condition, and partly copied or imitated from thoſe of the Romans. In fact, in our Anglo-Saxon graves we find much purely Roman pottery intermingled with earthen veſſels of Saxon manufacture; and this is alſo the caſe in Germany. As Roman forms are known to every one, we need only give the pure Saxon types. Our cut, No. 3, repreſents five examples, and will give a ſufficient notion of their general character. The two to the left were taken, with a largequantity
