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I do not know whether I am coiTect ; but many of the articles 

 of metal certainly appeared to be more brittle when found, than 

 they were a short time after exposure. 



The hasp of a cabinet lock, shaped like an elongated leaf, 

 made of bronze inlaid with enamel. This is the precise counter- 

 part of one found at Richborough, now in Roach Smith's 

 collection, and which is figured in Weight's Celt, Roman, and 

 Saxon. 



A copper armlet, about 2 inches in diameter and \ in. thick, 

 broken by the labourer who took it up, handling it too roughly. 



A spout of some small vessel ; and one or two other fragments. 



The only coin I have yet found was lying on the top of the wall, 

 {i.e. on its broken surface) It is about the size of a farthing, but 

 much thicker, and so heavy that the labourer who handed it 

 me thought it was gold. It is, however, a copper coin, but 

 much oxydized ; the outline of a head with a long neck is 

 traceable on it, with the letters A V G. On the edge are two 

 deep notches, apparently hacked with a knife, but filled with 

 verdigris : shewing that it had been picked up by some labourer 

 engaged in removing the upper portion of the wall, examined in 

 a rough and ready way, probably in the hope of finding it to be 

 what my man had supposed it ; and then cast away. Roman 

 copper coins were not likely to be much appreciated by a labourer 

 of Charles the Second's time. A " third brass" coin of Con- 

 STANTiNE, was found some years ago, in digging the foundation 

 of the Co-operative Stores. 



A fragment of Alabaster 6 inches in length, turned in a lathe 

 and which may have served as a spout for a fountain. (?) 



IV. Of iron or steel, a number of articles appear to have 

 existed, which the damp has destroyed ; their presence being 

 indicated by masses of oxide. Besides these there were, however, 

 a number of broad-headed nails, about 3 inches long ; a piece 

 shaped like a J, somewhat like the tethering pins for cavalry 

 horses which have been found near Blandford;* and the end of 



* These pins have a ring on the top of the cross bar, -j- for fastening the 

 halter to. It is curious that the emblem of the shepherd kings, as shown on 

 some of the Ancient Egyptian tombs, is of the same shape. 



