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objects of curiosity, or as being supposed to possess certain 

 talismanic virtues : in this manner we might account for the 

 discovery of solitary specimens in remote localities; thus, in 

 1852 three pieces were found in breaking up Down land at 

 Charlton, near Blandfoi-d ; ♦ Mr. Rolfe found a large specimen 

 8i -inches in diameter, at the Roman station of Eichborough; 

 one was found during excavations at the Roman cemetery at 

 Preston, near Wej-mouth. The proofs of its Roman character 

 are numerous and strong enough from its association with 

 Roman remains; the wonder is that Miles, with the evidence 

 bofore his eyes, should have so completely mystified himself 

 Sir Richard Hoare, and others, -with the h\3)othesis of its 

 Phoenician origin ; that illusion, however, has been satisfactoiily 

 dispelled by the light that has been thrown on the theory of 

 its fabrication. 



** Such facts as the following are corroborative evidences, and 

 they have a local interest attached to them; a bead' or 

 amulet, manifestly turned in the lathe, was found at the 

 Roman villa discovered at Tarrant Hinton in 1846; two^ 

 with Roman remains at Charlton, in 1846; one^ at Iwerne 

 with a small Roman bell in bronze, &c. ; one* at the Roman 

 cemetery, near Preston; one' ^ith a small ring of the shale 

 at "Winchester, with Roman remains; ono^ at Pevensey 

 Castle in the excavations there in 1854; armillse' have been 

 found at Stroud, Colchester, London, Chesterford; a piece 

 of ring® apparently of Kimmeridge clay, about seven inches in 

 diameter, with Roman remains at Newhaven; a ring of the 

 shale* connected with a bronze ring was found lying upon the 

 breast of a skeleton at Litlington, and suggests that such 

 rings, called armillse, may have been used in some instances 

 to fasten the dress, f Indeed we may say that wherever 



• One of these pieces had jive holes. 



t I. 2, 3, in Mr. Burden's collection ; 4. in Mr. Medhurst's; 5, in Mr. 

 Warne's ; 6, Sussex Archaeological Collection, Vol. iv, p. 275 ; 7, Collec- 

 tanena Antiqua, VoL 3, and Journal of Arch»olof?ical Institute; 8, 

 Sussex ArchaHjlogical Collection. Vol. v, p. 264 j 9, Publications of the 

 Cambridge Antiquarlkn Society, Vol. i 



