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Of these no remains would be found. 
Of weapons the most remarkable seems to have been the sling, 
for the common use of which we have presumptive evidence in 
the very great numbers of selected round pebbles of a suitable 
size which were found carefully stored away in the pits. These 
would be obtained from the other end of the bay near Sand 
Point. That slings were used by the ancient Britons is known. 
“The younger British slingers (exculcatores) are found among the 
Palatine auxiliaries,” says Mr. Wright.* Among the loose stones 
below the ramparts these pebbles are found beneath the surface, 
and Mr. Martin Atkins told me that he came upon them in 
exploring the angular indentations or platforms on Sand Point. 
Some flint flakes about the size for arrow heads were found in 
the pits. 
The iron weapons in the pits were two or three spikes of iron 
about five inches long, probably javelin heads, of which one was 
found about 5 ft. 9in. deep in a pit underneath human bones, as 
before mentioned, and two quite well-made leaf-shaped spear 
heads with sockets. These were about four inches and five inches 
long. 
Also a “piece of iron about eight inches in length, which, 
though quite rusted through, appeared to be the head of a large 
spear.” This last, be it remarked, was found “just above the 
floor.”t 
There was also a spiked conical ferule of iron 7 inches long 
found in one of the pits, with a rivet-hole in one side, and the 
charred remainder of the shaft still within the socket. 
The only probable relic of a defensive kind consists of the 
remains of two concentric rings of iron fonnd one within the 
other, the outer one being a rim with rivets remaining in it, which 
were perhaps parts of a shield. 
“The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon,” p. 104. 
{ Proc, Som. A. and N. H. S., 1851., p. 82. 
