470 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1940 



THE AUBREY HOLES 



Among the finds were "fabricators" of flint, used in the manufacture 

 of flint implements, and flint flakes ; some of these have been replaced 

 upon the cores from which they have been struck off, showing that 

 the work was done on the spot. Besides these there were axes and 

 hammers of Prescelly stone, and fragments of Bronze Age pottery. 

 One of these is of special interest; it is a portion of a vessel with 

 perforated lugs which may have been an "incense cup" of the Middle 

 Bronze Age. 



CREMATIONS AROUND THE AUBREY HOLES 



Bone pins, well finished, some bearing traces of fire, and a beauti- 

 fully finished perforated Bronze Age macehead, in hornblendic gneiss, 

 a stone foreign to the district but found in Brittany and also in Scot- 

 land. This shows no trace of wear and might, therefore, have been 

 "ceremonial." 



GROUND BETWEEN THE OUTER SARSENS AND AUBREY HOLES 



Roughly chipped flint implements. Bronze Age pottery. Early Iron 

 Age pottery (c. 400 B. C), pottery "counter" or disk for playing some 

 game, three Roman coins, Roman fibula (A. D. 350-400), Roman 

 toilet article, Anglo-Saxon silver belt ornament, coin of Ethelred II, 

 minted in London, Norman harness ornament, a groat of Henry II, 

 cut to make a halfgroat, and small bell pendant, possibly from a horse 

 trapping. 



Y AND Z HOLES 



Rough flint implements, small tablets of Prescelly stone, perhaps 

 "counters," Prescelly axhammers. Bronze Age pottery, Early Iron 

 Age pottery, Roman New Forest ware, "mock" Samian, made locally, 

 fragment of Roman brooch, bangle, and three Roman coins. 



SARSEN STONE HOLES 



Flint implements (two scrapers with polished edges, fabricator, 

 etc.), tablet and implements of Prescelly stone, broken perforated 

 hammer (not Prescelly stone). Beaker pottery. Early Iron Age pot- 

 tery, Roman pottery, part of Roman bronze bracelet, and a hone. 



AREA AT OPEN END OF HORSESHOE 



Fint implements (scraper with polished edge), Beaker pottery, 

 bone pin, Early Iron Age pottery. 



