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and their fingers were of small size. They used bangles of bronze 
and Kimmeridge Shale, and one brooch discovered was of the finest 
mosaic, such as I found upon enquiry could not be easily surpassed 
even in Italy at the present time. Also gilt and enamelled brooches, 
some of which were in the forms of animals, They used bronze 
and white metal spoons, and the number of highly ‘ornate bronze 
and white metal fibulz, showed that such tastefully-decorated 
fastenings for their dresses must have been in common use. Nor 
are we left in doubt as to the exact way in which these fibule were 
worn, for one skeleton was found with two of them, a bronze one 
on the right shoulder, and an iron one on the right hip. As we 
know that in the time of Agricola the Britons adopted the Roman 
costume, we may feel sure that these were employed after the fashion 
of the men to fasten the amictus, or a plaid, over the right shoulder, 
and probably a skirt or tunic round the loins. They ate oysters, 
which, considering the distance from the coast, implies a certain 
degree of luxury, though it is possible that the shells may have been 
used as utensils for some purposes. One of the most interesting 
discoveries connected with these people was the small stature of both 
males and females, but this is a subject that I shall refer to again 
when speaking of my discoveries at Woodyates. The probability is 
that both villages were inhabited by different classes, and not im- 
probably they may have been the homes of Roman colonists, sur- 
rounded by their families and a bevy of slaves. The possibly Roman 
characteristics recognized by anthropologists in one round-headed 
skeleton, may, perhaps, be regarded as favouring this view, but the 
long heads of the majority seem to indicate with great probability 
that the bulk of the inhabitants were of British origin; more than 
that it would be unsafe to say. The coins prove that the villages 
were occupied up to the Constantine period, and Woodcuts certainly 
up to the time of Magnentius—A.D. 350—353. 
These results, the details of which are given in tables, drawings, 
and diagrams, in my book, furnish us with a fair idea of the condition 
of the inhabitants of the villages ; and the number of different forms 
of art and objects of industry discovered in them enables us to 
identify clearly any other settlements of the same period that may 
