400 Notes on Objects of Late Celtic Character found in Wiltshire. 



hollow to receive enamel or a stone, and a bifid beak with curving 

 ends touching the bow. Devizes Museum. Length llin. 



Fig. 11. From Wylye Camp. In the Blackmore Museum, at Salisbury. 

 Consists of bow and catch only. Has traces of double engraved 

 lines along the back, which is corroded. It is of somewhat similar 

 heavy make to Fig. 10. Length l|in. 



Fig. 12. Found " at a depth of 2ft. lOin. beneath the surface in the filling of 

 the main circle ditch " at Rotherley Romano-British village, ex- 

 cavated by General Pitt-Rivers. Figured, Excavations, IL, 

 PI. XCVII., Fig. 5, p. 116. (Here reproduced, with Fig. 13, by 

 kind permission of Messrs. Batsford.) It is a fine specimen, 

 complete, except for one coil of the spring which is gone, the spring 

 being coiled round a small bronze tube as axis. The bow has a 

 band of incised zigzag pattern carefully worked along the back, 

 and similar bands on the sides. The foot is of pronounced 

 " Duck's head " shape, the bill — which is not bifid — touching the 

 bow. Length 2in. 



Fig. 13. Found at a depth of 2ft. 2in. in the filling of Pit 72 at Rotherley 

 Romano-British village. Consists of bow, two turns of spring, 

 and catch. A line of dots on the bow. Length, l^in. [^eeFig. 12.] 

 Presumably this and Fig. 12, are in the museum at Farnham, 

 Dorset. 



Fig. 14. From West Lavington Down, 1857. Presented to Devizes Museum 

 by Rev. E. Wilton. A slender well-made example, one of the 

 smallest found in Wiltshire. A line of minute dots between 

 engraved lines on the back of the bow. The foot ends in a small 

 flat knob with a moulding at the neck. There is a solid bronze 

 axis through the coils of the spring, and the pin is not now con- 

 nected with the spring, but simply looped round the axis. Length 

 l|in. 



Fig. 15. Found at Silbury Hill. From the collection of Col. Woodford. 

 Presented to Devizes Museum by E. Cunnington. A well-made 

 and perfect example. The bow has a well-formed hollow moulding 

 running down the back with an engraved line on either side. The 

 foot has a small flat knob with curving bifid beak touching the 

 bow. There is a solid bronze axis through the coils, one of which 

 is broken, and the existing bronze pin is not connected with the 

 spiral but is simply looped round the axis and has no spring. 

 Length l|Jin. 



The non-Wiltshire examples known to me are : — 

 Dorsetshire. [I.] Found in surface trenching by Gen. Pitt-Rivers at 

 Woodcuts Romano-British village. [Figured in Excavations, 

 vol. I., 49, PI. XIV., Fig. 2.] The pin and foot are missing, the 

 spring appears to have as an axis a hollow cylinder of bronze 

 Length, l^in. 

 [II. ] From Bryanstone, near Blandford. In British Museum. A 

 solid massive specimen, with broad thick bow, with row of dots 



