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bronze bracelet; G., Pis. I., II., and III., with fluted ornamentation 

 on the outside. Though not an ordinary type, the fluted ornamen- 

 tation is distinctly characteristic of the Bronze Age. Sir Joha 

 Evans, in his work on the Bronze Age, figures one from Cornwall ; 

 Chantre gives an illustration of one in the Museum at Lyons ; two 

 are figured by Madsen ; and one was found in a tomb by the Baron 

 de Bonstetten. 



At the same level, viz., 3ft., and on the same side of the camp, 

 a bunch of bronze wire, H., Pis. I., II., and III., and a bone 

 awl, B., Pis. I., II., and III., were discovered, the latter having 

 two perforations in it, as if to attach it to a rod of some thick- 

 ness.* Two bone awls were also found in the rampart on the 

 other side of the camp, L. and K., Pis. I., IL, and III. Bronze 

 awls are of common occurrence in tumuli of the Bronze Age, and 

 for soft substances an awl of bone would suffice. Bone awls are 

 frequently found with bronze implements in the Swiss Lakes, and 

 are figured by Keller. 



The last implement to be mentioned is a bronze spear-head with 

 two loops, found in the silting of the ditch at a depth of only 0'9ft. 

 on the south side, C, Pis. I., II., and III. It is of a well-known 

 Bronze Age type. One from Wilsford, Wilts, is figured by Dr. 

 Thurnam in his " Ancient British Barrows.''' Evans says that hardly 

 any examples of looped spear-heads from other countries can be cited, 

 whilst in Britain — and more especially in Ireland — they are very 

 abundant. He assigns the socketted spear-head to a late period in 

 the Bronze Age, and none have been found in barrows in Britain, so 

 that in all probability they are subsequent to the Barrow Period, and 

 —like the socketted celt — of late production. The sides of the socket 

 in this specimen are extremely thin, and the skill involved in pro- 

 ducing sockets so truly bored could only have been acquired after long 

 practice in casting. Mr. Franks has drawn my attention to a plate 



' Upon further consideration, I think it more probable that this object served 

 the purpose of a button. It is rather long for such a purpose, but the pointed 

 end may have been intended to pass it through the button-hole or a loop. The 

 two holes are similar to those of a bone button found by Mr. Goddard in a 

 tumulus on Cold Kitchen Hill, aud illustrated in this number of the Magazine, 



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