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ROMAN MANCHESTER RE-STUDIED.
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bronze, &c.

Two bronze scales, found 1771, near hypocaust. Lost.

Bronze kettle, 5½ inches diameter and 2½ inches deep, with a flat handle, "found in one of our Mancunian mosses, now in the Mancunian Library" (Whitaker, vol. i., p. 299. 1771). Lost.

A female head and a pegasus, found 1789, 6 feet below the ground, between two large horizontal stones, with several flat brass dishes; also urn with silver coin of Trajan (98–117) at Castlefield (see Thompson Watkin's Roman Lancashire, p. 108), engraved. Lost.

Pins. See Croston's Baines, plate xiv., p. 13.

Bullæ in bronze. See Croston's Baines, plates xv. and xvi., p. 14.

Head and neck of animal. See Croston's Baines, plate xxi., p. 14.

Small bronze cross and a hinge. See Croston's Baines, plate xviii., p. 14.

Large number of small flattened rings. See Croston's Baines, plate xxvi., p. 15.

Two rings with a blue fluted bead, and found 1796 (Barritt). Lost. See engraving, vol. v., p. 534, plate vii., Manch. Lit. and Philosoph. Soc., 1802.

Bronze celt, found 1796, now at Peel Park.

Twisted bracelet, now at Worsley Hall.

Bronze boss with a Gorgon's head, now at Worsley Hall, not engraved.

Bronze stand, Croston's Baines, see engraving xvii., p. 14.

Copper ladle, Croston's Baines, see engraving xix., p. 14.

Bronze statuette of Jupiter Stator, found 1839 in Tonman Street, still in possession of the late Dr. John Leigh's family.