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here, for I have it on the authority of Mr. Arthur Bulleid that 
the natives of Zanzibar use a very similar contrivance to this day, 
the native women, with their younger children strapped on their 
backs, deftly spinning their yarn from materials which are 
contained in a pouch on the shoulder. 
These spindle whorls seem to have been made from whatever 
ame to hand, and are of all kinds of materials, some being made 
from the stones of the locality, some from pottery, and others, 
according to Professor Boyd Dawkins, being of lead, while in one 
example at Glastonbury the primeval spinner has made use of a 
small ammonite, thus constituting himself or herself one of the 
earliest collectors in that department of Geology with which we 
are so familiar in this district. 
In the specimen now exhibited the material is White Lias, 
which outcrops on the slopes of the adjoining ground. 
Black Pottery.—It is greatly to be regretted that this part of 
the find came into the writer’s hands in a fragmentary condition. 
From the statements of the quarrymen the pottery was broken 
when discovered, and it probably received further damage during 
its removal from the pit, so that only three of the pieces found 
will join together ; but the specimens now submitted are sufficient 
to shew the nature of the pottery, which is of a coarse description, 
indicating a very early date. It is probably hand made, and the 
clay from which it was formed has evidently been mixed with 
shells which Professor Boyd Dawkins pronounces to be recent, 
and amongst which he recognises the cockle. 
What the shape or use of this particular article of pottery may 
have been there is not sufficient to shew, but it is possible that if 
it had been examined before it was disturbed, it might have been 
found to contain some evidence of burial by cremation. 
Those who have had the advantage of comparing them will 
doubtless observe, that these fragments are very similar in their 
character to much that has been found in the ancient British 
village near Glastonbury. 

