ON SOME DIGGINGS NEAR BRASSINGTON, DERBYSHIRE. II5 



found, probably they belonged to awls ; they are round in trans- 

 verse section, and the larger is i^ in. long. Two objects. Fig. 9 



Fig. 9 {{). 



(the larger of deer horn, the smaller of calcined bone or ivory), 

 like broken off halves of a corkscrew handle, are regarded by 

 Mr. Boyd Dawkins as broken links. Several of similar shape 

 were associated with Romano-British objects in Victoria Cave, 

 Settle ; and others, larger, with Bronze-age objects, in Heathery 

 Burn Cave, Co. Durham. Several whet-stones were found, two 

 being of a fine hard slatey stone ; a piece of red ochre, having 

 signs of much usage ; two fragments of a substance that we 

 regarded at first as polished jet, but which seems to be black 

 bone ; and a lump of unburnt clay, which, from a groove upon 

 it, we judged to be a piece of daubing of wattle-work, used in 

 the construction of a hut. Such lumps have been repeatedly 

 found on the site of the Romano-British village of Cranbourne 

 Chase, Wilts., excavated by General Pitt Rivers. 



The Fauna. — A sack-full of animals' bones was obtained 

 from this prolific cutting of the slope. From their broken, split, 

 and occasionally burnt appearance, it is clear they were the 

 remains of human food. The writer is not sufficiently versed 

 in animals' bones to identify them with much certainty. The 

 larger proportion belonged to the hog; then followed the ox, 

 probably the Celtic short-horned breed, a large piece of the 

 frontal of one indicating that the method of killing was similar 

 to the present. The more frequent fare of pork and beef of 

 these ancient folk was occasionally varied with horse-flesh, mutton, 

 and venison. They were sufficiently refined to refuse dog, the 

 skull of that animal (one about the size of a retriever) being 



