8 Notes on the Opening of a Bronze Age Barrov at Manton. 



of the diameter of the bead. Tlie edges of the caps are beaten 

 over inside the hole.^ Diameter of bead fin. 



No. 5. A disc of red amber framed in borders of thin gold. The 

 gold borders are engraved with six concentric accurately drawn 

 lines. There are a number of depressed dots placed with great 

 care at regular intervals of 3^, of an inch apart in the lines. 

 Both sides are alike, and the disc is slightly convex, the rim being 

 3^ of an inch in thickness and has two parallel incised lines round 

 it. The two borders are separate pieces of gold, and one of the 

 lines round the rim has been taken advantage of to join the two 

 together ; so skilfully has this been done that in some places the 

 join is not easy to detect. There are two holes bored in the rim, 

 and these seem to have been in connection with some arrangement 

 for suspension. Diameter of disc || of an inch. 



No. 6. A " Lancet." It consists now of two hollow oblong 

 sheaths of thin gold, into one of which is inserted a small bronze 

 blade. When complete, this curious little instrument probably 

 consisted of a core of wood into which was inserted the bronze 

 blade, the wood being encased in the thin sheaths of gold. The 

 smaller — or handle — end has two holes for rivets, evidently in- 

 tended to fasten the gold securely on to the wooden core ; the 

 other sheath has no rivet holes, but was probably kept in place by 

 means of the Idade. There is no doubt as to the relative position 

 of the two sheaths, they were found lying exactly as here repre- 

 sented, touching each other, with the little bronze blade still in 

 place. The blade has no appearance of ever having been broken, 

 but is of the original size and shape. The smaller — or handle — 

 end is enriched by bands of incised lines ; each band has three 

 lines, and tliere are five bands. The blade end is similarly treated, 

 but there are seven bands instead of five. The lines are drawn 

 with great precision. Length respectively of sheaths \h\. and 



gill- 

 No. 6a. End of sheath showing rivet holes. 



' For a similar bead see Ancient Wilts, p. 202. l<toiirliead Cut., No. 140. 

 Also from Bircham, iu Norfolk. Proc. Soc. Antiq., Second Series, vol. iv., 

 p. 456. 



