TWO BRONZE SPEAR-HEADS 

 FROM RODBOROUGH, NEAR STROUD, 



BY 



MAJOR C. H. FISHER, F.R.A.S. 

 (Read February 21, 1899) 



The two spear-heads depicted in the accompanying 

 Figs. I, 2, are in my possession. They were given to 

 me long ago by Mr Pinfold, the last of a very old family 

 of that name, who inhabited a house called the Wood- 

 house, in the Parish of Rodborough, near Stroud, and 

 possessed much land around there. He informed me 

 that these old weapon-heads were ploughed, or dug up 

 when the site of a very ancient beech wood, on the edge 

 and fringe of Rodborough Common (unenclosed for- 

 tunately and unenclosable, from its proximity to the 

 populous town of Stroud) was converted into arable land, 

 and finally into hill pasture. This was not much less 

 than fifty years ago. He only added that there was not, 

 he thought, any appearance of an interment (though 

 oddly enough the two spear-heads were found near one 

 another), and that nothing else of the kind was disco- 

 vered. They were not very deep in the ground, some 18 

 inches, he believed, only. 



