I am happy to have an opportunity of sending to you for inspection, and if you think right for exhibition before the Society of Antiquaries, some relics of the olden time, which have lately been brought to light by the operations now carrying on in the bed of the Thames, between Kingston and Hampton Court, and at a short distance from my residence. The ballast heavers have been raising a vast mass of gravel and soil from the bed of the river, to raise and improve the barge-walk, and render it more passable during the floods. The process has been going on for some time, chiefly on the Middlesex side; and many memorials of remote times have been recovered, principally instruments of a warlike character. I have been able to secure some of them for my small collection. These objects are all found about seven feet below a bed of gravel, and resting about two feet deep in a bed of blue clay. I am keeping a sharp look out for other discoveries of the same kind; but, as the river is now rising fast, the depth of water will probably delay for a time the chance of meeting with any more. You are aware that several objects of this description, and found in the same vicinity, have been for some time in our friend and my neighbour Jesse's possession. Many of them, and they are very fine and beautiful specimens of the kind, were discovered a few years ago, during the operation of sinking the cofferdams for our new bridge.