[9] ] Paper by John Brent, Esq., in the fifth volume of 'Archæologia Cantiana,' p. 312.

[10] ] 'Mémoires de la Société Royale des Antiquaires du Nord,' 1872-77, Plate VIII., figs. 1 and 2.

[11] ] 'Isca Silurum,' by John E. Lee, F.S.A., Plate XXXVI., fig. 1.

[12] ] C. Roach Smith's 'Collectanea Antiqua,' vol. ii., Plate VI., figs. 2 and 3, p. 20.

[13] ] 'La Ferronnerie,' tome i., p. 320.

[14] ] 'Archæologia,' vol. xlvi., Plate XXIV., "Excavations in Mount Caburn, conducted by General Pitt-Rivers, F.R.S., in September and October, 1877, and July, 1878."

[15] ] 'Journal of the Anthropological Institute,' vol. vii., p. 425, Plate XI., fig. 12.

[16] ] This passage is quoted from a paper "On the Construction of Locks and Keys," read before the Institution of Civil Engineers by Mr. John Chubb, April 9, 1850, and is extracted from Parkhurst's 'Hebrew Lexicon,' 5th edit., p. 600. London, 1807.

[17] ] Isaiah xxii, 22. It has been suggested that this passage in Isaiah was introduced subsequently to the rest of the book, and dates from a period when keys came into general use amongst the Jews.

[18] ] Since the discovery that these objects were keys, I have reason to think that other things found in the same place and represented in the same plate, as for instance figs. 9 and 14, may have been door fastenings. 'Archæologia,' vol. xlvi., Plate XXIV.