A number of remarkable antiquities have recently been discovered in
Saxe Weimar, and the Grand Ducal Government has published an ordonnance for the preservation of these different objects. In making excavations for a new road in the environs of the village of Dienstwdt, near Stadtilm, an ancient tomb was found, in which were enclosed several sacred vases, urns, arms, amber, ornaments, pearls, silver neck. laces and bracelets, pins, and other objects in ivory, &c. The delicate workmanship of these articles precluding the supposition of their being of German origin, and nothing indicating their Roman origin, the tomb in which they have been found is supposed to be that of an ancient Hun or Vandal chieftain. A similar, but much more ex. tensive and valuable discovery has recently been made at Saalborte near Berke, on the Inn, consisting of about 500 coins, medals, and bracelets, the antiquity of which dates from the thirteenth century.— Chronicle.
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