liy William Long, Esq. 175 



Objects of Bone. 



Unbumt Bodies. Burnt Bodies. Total. 



Bone pins 6 12 18 



„ weapons ? 63 ^ 1 64 



„ mesh-rules 112 



1 

 3 



„ wrist-guard 1 



Hafts of deer-horn 3 



Hammer-head of horn 1 _, j 



1 



1 



1 ... 1 



1 



Pick of „ 1 



Pipe of bone^ perforated 



Tube 



Dice (?) 1 



Tweezers of bone ... 7 7 



78 22 100 



Pms of various sizes, from one to nine inches in length, formed 

 from the fibulae and splint-bones of the legs of quadrupeds, of which 

 the horse, deer, and goat have been identified, are often found with 

 interments. There are many at Stourhead, of which about one third 

 have had the head perforated as if for suspension or attachment. 

 Many were probably used for fastening the cloak of skins or coarse 

 woollen sagum, which formed the clothing. The same which secured 

 the dress of the living may have served to have fastened the skin or 

 cloth in which the remains of the dead, burnt or unburnt, were 

 jvrapped. Single bone pins were found by Hoare with eighteen 

 interments, or about once in every twenty graves. Relatively, they 

 were half as frequent again with burnt as with unburnt bodies. 

 One from a barrow at Wilsford is at Stourhead. In one of the 

 Lake ban-ows, Mr Duke found four '-'bone instruments^^ (pins) at 

 the head of an unburnt body, the finest three and a half inches long, 

 perforated. A " tube of bone^^ from a barrow (No. 18) of the 

 Wilsford group, was perhaps the mouth-piece of a musical instrument, 

 (figured on p. 439 of Archaeologia 43). Four small objects of bone' 

 of the same form and size, viz., about 1 in. long and \ inch wide, flat 

 below and convex above, and each marked with a difPerent device, 

 ' Sixty of this number were with a single interment. 



