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Some manufactured objects of use or ornament must be noticed, 
Fragments of a horse’s bit-of iron with its ring on one-side. A 
piece of platted sedge, probably part of a mat or basket, a piece 
of wood bored with two holes, the purpose of which has not been 
guessed, part of a bone comb, part of a circular armlet, apparently 
of wood. One beautiful blue glass bead found three feet deep in 
a pit on 7th September, 1852. A “spindle-whorl” of earthen 
ware, another made of a flat round pebble pierced through the 
middle, a similar sort of object composed of a marrow-bone, and 
a button, made of the upper end of the humerus of a human 
being, I believe, pierced through the middle. 
A very remarkable find consists of two rings of iron about an 
inch in thickness and about the same in diameter “ quite down on 
the floor of a pit under a projecting ridge of rock.” Near the 
bottom of the same pit was part of a very small ring apparently 
of bronze. 
We also found in a pit a very small torque-shaped ornament of 
bronze, only an inch and a quarter in its longer diameter, with a 
small rivet and a corresponding hole in the other end, and also an 
object fashioned from a deer’s antler, apparently the mouth-piece 
of a horn, ornamented with rings round it, which were joined by 
straight lines with rows of circles between. 
In 1853 was found on the top of the hill above Kewstoke a 
beautiful little penannular ornament of bronze about jin. in 
diameter, having its terminal knobs shaped by cutting off the 
angles diamond-wise, exactly like the anklets and bracelets still 
in use in Syria. 
The pottery found i in the pits was very interesting, of very rude 
and coarse manufacture and in large quantities, 
Some vessels were very carefully restored by my father Dr. 
Tomkins and by Dr. Pring. They were of simple form, especially 
one of about 14in. in height, and the same diameter at the rim, 
which after being most carefully restored fell to Wperes through its 
extremely loose and friable composition. 
