of utenſils found rather commonly in the Anglo-Saxon barrows are buckets. The firſt of thoſe repreſented in our cut. No. 8, was found in An image should appear at this position in the text.No. 7. Anglo-Saxon Bowls. a Saxon barrow near Marlborough, in Wiltſhire; the other was found on the Chatham lines. As far as my own experience goes, I believe theſe buckets are uſually found with male ſkeletons, and from this circumſtance, and the fact of their being uſually ornamented, I am inclined to think they ſerved ſome purpoſes connected with the feſtivities of the hall; probably they were uſed to carry the ale or mead. The Anglo-Saxon tranſlation of the Book of Judges (ch. vii. ver. 20), rendered hydrias conſregiſſent by to-bræcon tha bucas, "they broke the buckets." A common An image should appear at this position in the text.No 8 Anglo-Saxon Buckets name for this implement, which was properly buc, was æſcen, which ſignified literally a'veſſel made of aſh, the favourite wood of the Anglo-Saxons. Our cut. No. 9, repreſents a bucket of wood with very delicately-formed bronze hoops and handle, found in a barrow in Bourne Park, near Canterbury, The wood was entirly decyaed; but the hoops and handle are in the collection of lord Londelborough. Such buckets have, alſo, been found under ſimilar circumſtances on the Continent. The cloſe reſemblance between the weapons and other inſtruments found in the Engliſh barrows and in thoſe at Selzen, may be illuſtrated by a compariſon of the two axes repreſented in the cut, No. 10. The upper one was found at Selzen; the lower one is in the Muſeum of Mr. Rolfe, and was obtained from a barrow in the Iſle of Thanet. The ſame ſimilarity is obſerved between the knives, which is the more remarkable, as the later Anglo-Saxon knives were quite of adifferent
