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and a double line each side. The foot a large thick rounded knob 

 touching the bow. Length 2|in. Figured in Guide to the Iron 

 Age, p. 100, Fig. 79. 



Somersetshire. Found at Melbury, near Somerton. Presented to Taunton 

 Museum, 1905, with the Hugh Norris Collection. A small speci- 

 men, with a considerable flattened rounded knob on the end of 

 the foot, barely touching the bow. The bow has a zigzag ornament 

 on the back. Length 45 mm. It is described in Somerset J j-c^. 

 Soc. Proc, 1905, pp. 149, 150, and illustrated, p. 144. It very 

 closely resembles several of the Wiltshire examples. The spiral 

 spring is broken across in one place, but the original pin remains 

 and there is no axis.' 



Gloucestershire. Preserved in the Museum at Chedworth Eoman Villa. 

 Consists of the bow and duck-headed foot. The spring and pin 

 are gone. A small specimen very like the Wiltshire ones. 



Berkshire. [I.] Dredged from the Kennet at Beading, now in the museum 

 there. Complete. Much like the example fi^gm A vebury (Fig 3). 

 The foot has a circular knob hollowed as a setting for stone or 

 enamel. 

 [II. and III.] Found at Wallingford, now in Beading Museum. 

 These two examples, for information as to which I am indebted 

 to Mr. T. W. Colyer, Curator of Beading Museum, appear to dififer 

 from the Wiltshire specimens in the fact that the loop of the spring 

 passed inside the end of the bow instead of outside the coils, the 

 whole brooch is more elongated, the bow in one case is plain, in 

 the other it has five transverse lines engraved across it on either 

 side of a central saltire, and the recurved end of the foot takes 

 the form of a small round knob and point, slanting to the top of 

 the bow, instead of curving to meet it lower down, in this respect 

 exactly resembling a large number of the specimens found in the 

 Gaulish cemeteries of the Marne. Nothing is known of the 

 circumstances of their discovery. 



Oxfordshire. [I.] From Wood Eaton, near Oxford. Now in the Ashmolean 

 Museum, From a British and Eoman settlement which may 

 date from the first or second century B.C. It is a perfect 

 specimen, exactly like the Wiltshire ones, with a small median 

 rib on the bow, and a small flat duck's head shaped foot with bill. 

 [II.] From Water Eaton, Presented to the British Museum by 

 Sir A. W. Franks, 1880. A perfect specimen with very short 

 high arched bow, with three lines intersected by zigzags on the 

 back and on the sides three circles with dots and diagonal 

 engraved lines. The foot ends in a flat circular plate, on which 

 are engraved five circles with dots, touching the bow. Figured 

 in Guide to the Early Iron Age, p. 100, Fig. 77. Length 

 l,6in. 



' For information as to this specimen I am indebted to Mr. H. St. George 

 Gray, of the Taunton Castle Museum. 



