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ON KIMMEBIBG1& "COAt-MONEY/' 



[ Bead at the Museum, October 12, 1859. ] 



In March last, in company with the Rev. N. Bond, I again 

 examined the locality at Povington, which is mentioned at 

 page 91* After digging in several spots^ which £roz£i 

 the paucity of relics appeared to have been previously 

 examined, we alighted upon a portion of the area defined by 

 the blackness of its soil undisturbed, and containing a 

 surprising number of "Coal-money." From two holes, each 

 of about a yard in diameter, were obtained from 600 to 800 

 pieces, besides many broken portions of armlets* Flint 

 chippings occurred, some of which were perfect points, 

 suitable, and evidently prepared for the purpose of turning. 

 I observed that the specimens thrown out of the different 

 holes, though only three or four yards apart, wero by no 

 means uniform. In one the pieces were nearly aU small, as 

 if the refuse from turning links for the formation of chains; 

 whilst in the other, they were of the common size, sucli as 

 would be cast from armlets. It would seem that at these 

 several spots, separate lathes wero set up, each probably 

 adapted to only one species of work. 



Amongst the many pieced were a few only, unturned, but 

 prepared for the lathe, two to three inches in diameter, cut 

 exactly roimd; some presenting no trace of the manipulation 

 of the turner, and others only the first process, viz. — the 

 cutting or drilling the hole, or holes for the reception of the 

 chuck, in which some had boon broken. In one pieoo » 



